Petitioners of this lawsuit in conjunction with the United Sovereign Americans include: Bernard “MARTY” Selker, JR. of Clarion, PA; DIANE HOUSER of Downingtown, PA; Ruth Moton of Upper Chichester, PA.; and Dean Dreibelbis of Glen Mills, PA
United Sovereign Americans, in conjunction with various Pennsylvania voters, represented by Bruce Castor Jr of van der Veen, Hartshorn, Levin, & Lindheim, has filed a federal lawsuit against the State of Pennsylvania, various Commonwealth officials, the United States Department of Justice, and United States Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding errors in the results of the 2022 general election in Pennsylvania which rendered the results unreliable. Petitioners assert that, “Congress set minimum standards for every federal election to be considered reliable. In Pennsylvania’s 2022 federal election those minimum standards were not met by Commonwealth election officials...” Citing 3,192,069 apparent errors in the registration records resulting in 1,089,750 uncertain votes, as well as a discrepancy of over 9,000 more votes tabulated than voters who voted, the lawsuit describes the situation in no uncertain terms:
“Commonwealth officials must conform to certain laws, at a minimum, to properly conduct a federal election before certifying that election. The Commonwealth failed to ensure that…safeguards were in place, …thus destroying the integrity of the 2022 election and making confidence in the election impossible. If the 2022 election performance is repeated in 2024, Petitioners and all Pennsylvania voters will suffer damages.
“In the 2022 Pennsylvania General Election, 5,410,022 individual ballots were recorded by election officials as cast. For the 2022 General Election if 5,410,022 (ballots cast) is divided by 125,000 (because the law allows for one error per 125,000 ballots), that leaves forty-four (44) (rounded up) as the maximum number of errors permitted under federal law for that election.
“An error rate above the maximum permissible rate set by Congress renders an election uncertifiable because the results are unreliable. Nevertheless, Commonwealth officials certified the 2022 election.”
The Writ of Mandamus prays for a simple remedy in the form of an order that the State follow the law in the upcoming 2024 Presidential election:
“Petitioners do not seek Court relief by a challenge to the past 2022 federal election. Petitioners contend, however, it is reasonable to believe that systemic issues which occurred in the 2022 Federal election in Pennsylvania will continue uncorrected in 2024, 2026, 2028, etc. absent Court intervention. The Writ of Mandamus seeks this Court order Respondents to perform their ministerial functions by taking actions to rectify reliability issues evident in the 2022 election.”
These functions include, “Ensuring that only properly registered citizen voters cast votes in federal elections, that only votes properly cast are counted, that all voting systems are compliant with critical infrastructure standards assuring every ballot is correctly tabulated, and ensuring that the authenticity of every ballot counted can be proven by an unbroken chain of custody from the voter’s hand to the final certified result.”
Additionally, Petitioners seek Court intervention clarifying that the definition of “to certify” is to attest under oath an official vote count occurred in compliance with the law under penalty of perjury, by the certifying official(s).
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