{"id":50919,"date":"2021-02-03T07:57:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T11:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=50919"},"modified":"2021-02-03T07:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T11:57:29","slug":"electiongate-pennsylvania-secretary-of-state-ignominiously-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=50919","title":{"rendered":"ELECTIONgate: Pennsylvania Secretary Of State Ignominiously Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Embattled Pennsylvania Secretary Of State Resigns After Botching Constitutional Amendment<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar (D), who came under fire for extending deadlines for absentee voters to provide missing proof of identification &#8211; has resigned for failing to comply with an unrelated state election law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/sos%20boock.jpg?itok=hDg64hIB\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/sos%20boock.jpg?itok=hDg64hIB\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/sos%20boock.jpg?itok=hDg64hIB\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"eac26533-8348-4045-937c-647030701368\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boockvar\u00a0<strong>botched a constitutional amendment which would have allowed sexual abuse victims more time to sue their alleged abusers.\u00a0<\/strong>Pennsylvania law requires that the secretary of state&#8217;s office must publicize proposed amendments in two newspapers in each of the state&#8217;s 67 counties ahead of the election and between two separate votes, which her office failed to do.<\/p>\n<p>Her last day in office will be Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because of the error,\u00a0<strong>the process to amend the constitution must now start from the beginning<\/strong>, unless the General Assembly pursues this initiative through the bill process,&#8221; said Gov. Tom Wolf (D) in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.pa.gov\/newsroom\/gov-wolf-announces-changes-at-the-department-of-state-after-failure-to-advertise-a-constitutional-amendment\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf also noted that &#8220;This change at the Department of State has nothing to do with the administration of the 2020 election, which was fair and accurate,&#8221; adding &#8220;<strong>The delay caused by this human error will be heartbreaking for thousands of survivors of childhood sexual assault<\/strong>, advocates and legislators, and I join the Department of State in apologizing to you. I share your anger and frustration that this happened, and I stand with you in your fight for justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boockvar made headlines in November after she\u00a0<strong>usurped the power of the state legislature\u00a0<\/strong>and unilaterally sought to accept mail-in ballots three days after the Nov. 3 election, while also extending the deadline for absentee voters to &#8216;cure&#8217; their ballots by providing missing proof of identification. Both the state and the US supreme courts sided with Boockvar &#8211; with the latter after Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the liberal members of the court to block the GOP&#8217;s challenge.<\/p>\n<p>GOP Sen. Josh Hawley (MO) objected to the certification of Pennsylvania&#8217;s electoral results for Joe Biden following a riot at the US Capitol by protesters who disrupted proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/embattled-pennsylvania-secretary-state-resigns-after-botching-state-election-law\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/embattled-pennsylvania-secretary-state-resigns-after-botching-state-election-law<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Pennsylvania Secretary Of State Resigns After Botching Constitutional Amendment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}