PA State Sen. Mastriano Introduces Resolution To Take Elector Power Back From The Secretary Of State

Sen. Doug Mastriano was instrumental in bringing the Pennsylvania Senate hearing to the public on Wednesday. The Senate hearing brought new evidence to light by letting the American public, along with Pennsylvania elected officials, listen to eyewitness accounts, expert testimony, and affidavits read aloud with regard to voter and ballot fraud allegations.

At the end of the meeting, Sen. Mastriano shared Galatians 6:9 “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” He shared this verse as a call to stand strong in the fight for transparency.

It is important to hold a tiny bit of skepticism when someone says they are from the government and they are here to save you. In the case of Sen. Mastriano, he might be from the government actually here to save us, and he isn’t alone.

In an interview today with Steve Bannon, Sen. Mastriano said he thinks that the people in our nation “were a bit shocked and taken back that there was that much real evidence and so many and so many witnesses willing to step forward.” He blamed journalists that are acting as political activists instead of reporters.

The momentum shifted after the hearing on Wednesday. The chatter went from “You have no evidence” to “Your evidence is circumstantial at best” to “You have typos in your lawsuit.” Sen. Mastriano credits the hearing and says that it woke many Americans up when they saw how many people were willing to testify under oath.

Along with many Americans, Steve Bannon wondered what the senator was going to do about righting this wrong. Sen. Mastriano said the first thing they’ll be doing is “grabbing back our constitutional authority in Pennsylvania” by introducing a joint resolution by the Republican-held Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives.

A resolution – unlike a bill – does not have to be voted on by the governor.

According to Sen. Mastriano, in 1938, the general assembly in Pennsylvania voted to give the authority of choosing the state’s electors over to the Secretary of State, presuming the election is fair. In this instance, there is enough evidence to determine that “multiple shenanigans” caused this election not to be free and fair.

Sen. Mastriano says that “this makes sense if the election is fair.” But the election was not fair, and Sen. Mastriano wants to know why he would “hand that power over to the party that cheated?” In his mind, giving the Secretary of State this power is “absolutely not” going to happen.

Sen. Mastriano says that even though “this is going to be a struggle” because they will receive considerable pushback from the Democrats, he says that joint resolution will bring the power back to its rightful place in the hands of the state legislature.

He said that there are too many instances of “shenanigans and fraud” that they “can’t just stand aside and just watch this unfold around us.”

Sen. Mastriano promises “that this is not about disenfranchising anybody,” but the exact opposite. The state legislature wants to make sure “that every legal voted counted and if there are extensive shenanigans out there, it is up to the general assembly to step in.”

And that he says is exactly what the joint resolution is doing by bringing the power of the electors back to the state legislature. Sen. Mastriano says that the state legislature is prepared to “take this fight all the way to the Supreme Court.”

Sen. Mastriano says that momentum is on their side after the hearing. That the Senate has two leaders and the state House has two leaders, and the information that came out of the hearing is responsible for shifting a couple of them. He added that in the Pennsylvania state Senate they only need “16 [supportive voices] in the Senate to sway the leadership.” He says they are “pretty darn close to having 16 or 17 Senators” pushing for this resolution, and he claims that “half of the Republicans in the House” are on board.

Sen. Mastriano acknowledges that “sometimes it feels like we are pushing from behind,” but he encourages everyone that “doing the right thing eventually catches on.”

At the end of the day, Americans want a free and fair election. If we can’t have that, what is the point in voting?

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