People who have their votes frivolously discarded (assuming they followed the directions in good faith) are victims. The person I replied to is implying that if they (we) get fucked over, it is their fault for voting by mail instead of voting in-person.

Now, look - I know you're thinking "they never said that." But what they are doing is de-legitimizing mail-in ballots. They are accepting and perpetuating that mail-in ballots are unreliable when that is just not the case. I've voted by mail my entire adult life (with the exception of two primaries that I voted in-person). Each and every time I received my ballot in a timely manner and received confirmation that it had been received by the county - including when I lived in a red state. There was never any issue until Republicans started making it an issue in 2020, because Democrats understood COVID-19 for the threat that is was while Republicans denied that it was a threat at all. It was always about making sure "our team" was scared away from the polls while "their team" had no fear (even if they should have). Fuck them - the system works so long as you give it the proper resources and aren't trying to threaten poll workers just trying to do their jobs. If we don't give the proper resources and don't allow poll workers to do their jobs, we are already failed as a democracy.

It is the old saying: "If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, it's your problem. If you owe the bank millions of dollars, it's the bank's problem." If the government forces US Steel to shut down the plant (even temporarily), there will be major backlash against the public officials who made it happen. The advertisements will write themselves, all they need is some B-roll of a struggling working class family who "had honest work until the government took that away from them." The companies hold all the power in this relationship.

On the other hand, nobody is going to make a super PAC to allow you to drive an out-of-spec car.

I refuse to cede the right to vote by mail. Either the votes count or they don’t. Either mail in votes matter, or they don’t.

Stop victim blaming people and instead demand fair process.

Nobody in the Senate decides how they're going to vote based on floor debates. Literally no one. Floor debates are just a stage for campaign sound bytes.

Nobody is running around assassinating acting mayors of 2k-resident municipalities, get a grip.

While I agree that this should be an easy requirement to follow, the fraud argument is just bullshit. Only the world's dumbest voter fraudster would forget to fill in the date field. There's way more dumb voters than dumb people trying to commit voter fraud - if the election security measures block more legitimate votes than fraudulent votes, then it's a pretty poor security measure.

It's possible that they published the minimum to ship the story out the door, and then went back to add detail? There's few paragraphs now about his decisions regarding gerrymandering and mail-in ballots.

TL;DR: The governor (most likely, the next governor, as I assume the legislature will refuse to vote on Wolf's nominee) will appoint a justice to serve until January 2024, when the winner of the Nov 2023 election will earn that seat.