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Sens. Doug Mastriano (R., Franklin) and Patrick Stefano (R., Fayette) are planning to introduce legislation to repeal provisions that currently allow no-excuse mail-in ballots.

The two senators have recently released a memorandum stating their intent to repeal the “provisions enacted in Act 77 of 2019,” The Epoch Times reported.

Mastriano and Stefano said that Gov. Tom Wolf (D) and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar (D), took advantage of the “unprecedented use of mail-in voting.”

They also said that “a rogue Supreme Court,” joined Wolf and Boockvar in taking advantage and have “unlawfully usurped legislative power to set the conditions for an election result in their political interest.”

They further said that the “actions were a direct attack on the legislature’s power to set the time, place, and manner of holding elections, as granted by the U.S. and Pennsylvania Constitutions."

The memorandum calls on Senate members to join them in co-sponsoring the legislation.

“Faith in our election process is crucial to our democracy,” the senators stated in the memorandum. “We remain hopeful that this initiative, and any additional legislative changes that will come forward from our hearings, will once again restore confidence in our democracy and shine a light into the shadow of doubt that has been cast over Americans’ most democratic process."