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Bill whitaker in a landmark ruling thursday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court made it easier for voters there to cast their ballots by mail. That could turn out to be one of the most consequential rulings this Election Year when voting by mail has sparked intense debate. President trump says voting by mail is harmful to our democracy and his election prospects. Democrats say it allows more voters to participate. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a third of registered voters told cbs news pollsters they plan to vote by mail; more than ever before. Clashes over voting rules are raging in state courts and legislatures, perhaps nowhere more than pennsylvania, the perennial swing state, the first to allow limited mail in voting more than a century ago. We went to see how this battle for the ballot is playing out in the cradle of our democracy, philadelphia. What keeps you up at night . Al schmidt being an election administrator in one of the largest cities in the country, in one of the fewest swing states in the country. Whitaker keeps you up at night . Schmidt it does. Whitaker al schmidt is one of three commissioners who run elections in philadelphia and the lone republican. Schmidt its just that theres a lot more scrutiny with this one. Whitaker at a Public Meeting two weeks ago, held in an openek warehouse to allow for social distancing, the commissioners werent feeling a lot of brotherly love from voters. Voters need to know. They want to voteby mail, they dont know about dropboxes, they dont know about early voting, they dont know anything, it seems like this body cant help me . Where can i go for assistance . So im just gonna get the deer in the headlights thing . Is that how it works . Somebody help me. Whitaker with the president ial election just weeks away the sad truth was al schmidt and his fellow commissioners couldnt offer much help. Thank you for your comment. Whitaker . Because they didnt have the answers themselves what was the deadline for requesting and returning mail in ballots . Would there be dropboxes for voters to drop off their ballots . Lawsuits and legislative wrangling kept those and other issues up in the air until just three days ago when the state Supreme Court ruling provided some answers. Because the Postal Service admits there will be mail delays, ballots arriving up to three days after election day will be counted. Drop boxes are allowed. And a slightly relieved commissioner al schmidt can now get to work. Schmidt not only do we have vote by mail in pennsylvania now, which is pretty new, we have a whole series of election reforms that are new. We have Voting Technology that is pretty new. And its taking place in this environment with the covid19 concerns that have limited our ability to use polling places. Theres all sorts of challenges all aligning for this election cycle. Whitaker the biggest challenge voting by mail. A new election law allows every registered voter to mail in ballots. It was first rolled out for the june primary, as the pandemic raged, in the midst of racial protests. It was a bumpy rollout. Because of the virus the primary was postponed five weeks. The day before the election democratic Governor Tom Wolf extended the deadline for some counties to return their ballots. Despite the bumps, 175,000 philadelphians voted by mail. Schmidt we had just an extraordinary interest in mail in voting. Whitaker did you notice a pattern as to who is choosing to vote by mail . Schmidt we did. Philadelphia is roughly seven democrats for every one republican. When we took a look at who applied to vote by mail, that disparity was 17 to one, 17 democrats applied to vote by mail for every one republican who voted by mail. Angelique hinton vote like your life depends on it and your rights depend on it, cause they do. Whitaker Angelique Hinton is working to make sure the voices of philadelphia are heard in november. Hinton so if you fill this out, then we can get this information to the commissioners office. Okay, thank you. Whitaker shes working for a nonprofit nonpartisan program to get out the vote, especially from young people and people of color. Im just hesitant about the mail in. Hinton well as far as what are you nervous about, like mailing it in . Yeah, will it count . Whitaker in the confusion of the june primary, almost 6,000 of philadelphias mail in ballots were rejected because they arrived after the extended deadline. So hinton reminds voters to get their ballots in by election day. Hinton id make sure to get it in as early possible if youre going to use that process. Whitaker why do you think vote by mail has become such a contentious controversial issue . Hinton there have been a lot of people that have been disenfranchised. And so voting by mail just gives back a lot of people, you know, the ability to vote that maybe couldnt take off work or just for whatever reason couldnt get there to vote on one day out of the year. And so this now provides an opportunity for so many more people to vote. And i think that that is scary to some people. Trump these mailin ballots, these mail in ballots are a disgrace and they know it. Whitaker President Trump has visited pennsylvania four times since june. In 2016, he lost the big cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh, but won the rural vote in a landslide and took the state by 44,000 votes, thats less than 1 . So far this year more than two million pennsylvanians have requested mail in ballots, more than twothirds of them democrats. Almost every time President Trump campaigns in the state he rails against mail in ballots. Trump this is just a way to steal the election and Everybody Knows that because the only way they are going to win is by a rigged election. Josh shapiro pennsylvania is certainly ground zero in this president ial election. Whitaker democrat josh shapiro is pennsylvanias attorney general. Hes been fighting Pennsylvania Republicans and the Trump Campaign over mailin ballots since june. He won the recent round in state Supreme Court but, in federal court, the president s lawyers are seeking to ban drop boxes and lift limits on poll watchers that have been in place since 1937. Shapiro told us the behind the scenes legal battles are as tough as the political one between President Trump and Vice President joe biden playing out on center stage. How intense is this legal battle going on in pennsylvania . Shapiro incredibly intense and youre here at a time where the president and his enablers have gone to court to actually make it harder for people to vote, bill. Theyve actually gone to court to try and sow doubt in peoples minds. And im in court right now beating back the attempts by the Trump Administration and the Trump Campaign to make it harder for people to vote by mail. Whitaker shapiro says exhibit a the president s repeated claim that theres massive fraud with vote by mail. It is the centerpiece of his federal lawsuit in pennsylvania. Shapiro and so we went to court and said, hey, mr. President , put up or shut up. Demonstrate that fraud that you keep talking about as the reason for trying to undermine the vote here in pennsylvania. And guess what . They didnt produce any fraud. Whitaker the federal court judge, a trump appointee, has asked the president s lawyers to show reason why this case should proceed. Theyre back in court this week. Shapiro they can make all the claims they want on twitter. They can make all the claims they want in the media, no disrespect. But ultimately when you make a claim in court youre bound to have to show proof, facts, and evidence. And they have failed to produce any type of meaningful proof that demonstrates that theres this fraud or demonstrates that our statute is illegal here. Whitaker jake corman is the republican majority leader in the pennsylvania senate. He supports President Trump. So you might be surprised by what the senator told us a week before the state Supreme Court decision. Do you believe that voting by mail is safe and secure . Jake corman in the pennsylvania system, yes. Whitaker what do you think of the president s almost unrelenting criticism of vote by mail . Corman im not gonna speak for the president. Thats thats, you know thats his job. My job is to make sure the pennsylvania system works. I think we are doing that. We have done that. Whitaker the Pennsylvania Republican party claims to be a champion of vote by mail. It overwhelmingly passed the republican dominated state legislature and was signed into law by the democratic governor in october 2019, well before the pandemic. The website of the Pennsylvania Republican party calls mailinvoting safe and easy. When we spoke to senator corman, he called some of the rhetoric around mail in ballots noise. Corman theres a lot of noise coming from everywhere. I mean, for anyone to claim that its not its all on one side is just not paying attention. Clearly, the president has the biggest microphone. All president s have the biggest microphone. If youre an effective policy maker, you got to you know, you listen to it to a point and then you got to tune it out. Our job is to make sure this election comes off well and that people are confident in it. Whitaker but the tone and tenor of debate in the Pennsylvania Legislature this summer has not inspired confidence. Republicans and democrats had been working together on legislation to fix kinks exposed in the june primary. But shortly after President Trump started blasting voting by mail in the courts and on the campaign trail in pennsylvania, state republicans changed course and introduced amendments to the legislation that mirrored the president s goals. Malcolm kenyatta if anybody has two eyes and two ears they know why this amendment is being moved. Whitaker democrats in the legislature, like representative Malcolm Kenyatta of philadelphia, felt blindsided and filed the case that ended up in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. They argued delays in mail delivery made drop boxes a necessity and regulations on poll watchers had been a check on voter intimidation for decades. Kenyatta allowing people to come from counties all across the commonwealth ino places like philadelphia will try to intimidate people from using their right to vote. We have seen these tactics before. Thats why the Voting Rights act struck down a lot of these things. Whitaker when the dust settled, democrats won most of what they sought in the state Supreme Court last week. But after the ruling, Senate Majority leader corman told us hes now concerned about the security of mail in ballots and that Senate Republicans are preparing to fight the decision all the way to the u. S. Supreme court. Attorney general shapiro says hell defend the Pennsylvania Court ruling. Shapiro i will tell you that theres an extraordinary amount of hypocrisy thats going on right now within the republican party. Donald trump and his family vote by mail. Trump now the good news is we have a lot of court cases. We have one in pennsylvania, you know that right . Whitaker the Trump Campaign, the g. O. P. , democrats and Interest Groups continue battling in court in pennsylvania and most other states. Trump so well see what happens. Whitaker do you expect that there will be lawsuits that will continue on election day . Shapiro i can tell you my team and i, along with others around the country, are preparing for all kinds of outcomes. Sadly we have to fear that we have a sitting president of the United States that may take legal action to try and stop certain legal votes from being counted. Whitaker back in philadelphia, the Election Commission is taking over a larger space to process election ballots. Republican al schmidt told us the state Supreme Court ruling provided some clarity to the election process, but didnt allay all his concerns. What most concerns you . Schmidt our republic depends on confidence in our electoral process. And there are a lot of voices across the spectrum that intentionally or unintentionally seem to be undermining that confidence. Whitaker but one thing he states with confidence we all have to have patience this november. 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