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Republican Lawyers Are Fighting to Stop The Steal
In the face of historic and unprecedented irregularities in the counting of votes in swing states including Michigan and Pennsylvania, Republican lawyers are suing to ensure the integrity of this election.
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Republican Lawyers Are Fighting to Stop The Steal
Harmeet Dhillon
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Posted: Nov 05, 2020 4:00 PM
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.
Source: AP Photo/Matt Slocum
In the face of historic and unprecedented irregularities in the counting of votes in swing states including Michigan and Pennsylvania, Republican lawyers are suing to ensure the integrity of this election.
The Trump campaign and state-level Republican Party organizations have filed lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia, as well as new lawsuits in Pennsylvania, where the U.S. Supreme Court has requested Democrats respond to a motion by the Trump campaign to intervene in an earlier suit over Pennsylvania’s decision to keep accepting new mail-in ballots for days after Election Day, in violation of state law. In addition, private, non-partisan groups such as the Thomas More Center’s Amistad Project are suing in Michigan and Pennsylvania over specific allegations of election law violations that could affect the outcome of these critical vote tallies.
The Democrats charge that these lawsuits are intended to “stop the counting of votes,” but that is the exact opposite of the truth. When these Democrat officials — who stopped reporting votes in the middle of the night as Donald Trump was accumulating a victory margin — talk about the Constitution, they are gaslighting the American people. Republicans seek to ensure that every single valid vote be counted in exactly the way the law demands. Why would election officials in multiple locations controlled by Democrats seek to block Republican poll watchers’ view of the counting process? There is no valid reason for this.
Republicans are fighting for our legal right to observe these counts as massive dumps of improbably Biden-heavy ballots continue to turn up and be counted by Democrat poll workers and election officials. There are numerous eyewitness accounts of Republican poll watchers in Philadelphia and Detroit – including colleagues at my law firm – being excluded from the process, put behind bicycle barriers 30 feet away from the actual counting, or having their view obstructed by sheets of cardboard as thousands of ballots are added to Democratic totals.
The Amistad Project’s Michigan lawsuit contains first-hand, eyewitness accounts of Democrat election observers filling out new ballots for votes that machines could not read without the participation of Republican observers. That is illegal.
The same group also filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleging that poll workers in heavily-Democratic districts gave incorrectly filled-out ballots back to Democrat activists to “fix” them. These actions, taken with the approval of Pennsylvania’s Democrat Secretary of State, violate established Pennsylvania election law.
Moreover, because the last-minute nature of this announcement — less than 24 hours before polls closed — prevented rural counties from taking full advantage of the new process, it likely violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection, even if this abrupt rule change might otherwise be valid.
These irregularities are just the tip of the iceberg. Every indication suggests there is far more illegal activity waiting to be documented and challenged: poll workers wearing Biden-Harris campaign gear as they tabulate votes, reports from Michigan that hundreds of Trump mail-in ballots were “misplaced,” and thousands more Trump votes excluded from counts by election software problems in Michigan.
Others reports are even more disturbing, including postal workers being told to backdate late ballots, and even long-dead Michigan residents being listed on the state’s election website as having not just received postal ballots, but having also completed and returned them from beyond the grave.
Every valid vote must be counted in the manner prescribed by law. We knew months ago — when Democrats launched an all-out effort to change election rules using the COVID pandemic as cover — that it might take a protracted effort to reach that outcome. As it turns out, our fears were well-founded, and the situation appears to have played out almost exactly as we expected.
We are fighting the fight we knew might come. In the courts and in the ballot counting centers themselves, we will not rest until we secure what the Constitution guarantees to the American people: a fair election.
Harmeet K. Dhillon is a nationally recognized lawyer focusing on commercial litigation, employment law, First Amendment rights, and election law matters. She is the Co-Chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association.
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Nevada GOP Sends Criminal Referral To Barr Alleging Thousands Of Cases Of Voter Fraud
By Ryan Saavedra
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Nov 5, 2020 DailyWire.co
The Nevada Republican Party sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice on Thursday alleging thousands of examples of voter fraud.
“Our lawyers just sent a criminal referral to AG Barr regarding at least 3,062 instances of voter fraud,” the Nevada Republican Party said in a statement. “We expect that number to grow substantially. Thousands of individuals have been identified who appear to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from NV.”
Fox News reported that a Justice Department spokesperson confirmed to the network that the criminal referral was received and that “attorneys will follow the standard practice of investigating.”
CBS News correspondent Catherine Herridge tweeted out a photo of the letter that the party’s legal team sent to Attorney General William Barr.
“This firm, in conjunction with Harvey & Binnall, PLLC, represents Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. We write to bring to your attention criminal voter fraud in the state of Nevada in the 2020 general election,” the letter states. “Specifically, we have initially identified 3,062 individuals who appear to have improperly cast mail ballots in the election.”
“We verified this by cross-referencing the names and addresses of voters with the National Change/of Address database,” the letter continued. “Enclosed, please find a letter sent to Joseph Gloria, the Clark County Registrar, outlining our findings.”
“We also anticipate that the final list of fraudulent ballots will grow substantially and we will update you as we learn more,” the letter continued. “Of course, voter fraud is a serious federal felony, one that cuts to the heart of our representative democracy. We understand that these are serious allegations and we don’t make them lightly.”
The Nevada GOP “shared a photo of a mail-in ballot from Washoe County, along with a caption that claimed four mail-in ballots were cast by voters under age 18, with one registered as a Democrat and three registered with no party affiliation,” Fox News added.
“NV ballots for kids? 4 MAIL votes cast in Washoe Co by people UNDER-18! 1 Dem & 3 NP,” the party claimed in a tweet. “Father of a 17 yo who registered & received ballot thankfully contacted county re: his ineligibility… The Radical Left dreams to lower voting age but… they can’t legally vote!”
A press release this afternoon from Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske stated:
This report has been updated to include additional information.
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In my county in Pennsylvania. The board of elections used County meter postage for the return ballot envelope.So the date listed on the Meter envelope was the same date as the date they sent the ballot out to the person. My husband is a Postal worker and noticed this. The Post Office does not stamp the date these ballots arrive to the Post Office. So the only date that shows is the Posted Meter Date the Election Board stamped on the return envelope. The way Pennsylvania is allowing Ballots to dwindle in is room for cheating. They state it has to be dated by November 3rd. Well the County has been placing Meter Postage to by pass that rule. If The County put an Actual Stamp on the Envelope It would have to then be Post Marked by the Post Office with a Date. This is one way the Democrates are Cheating in the State. My husband know of 2 Counties he delivers to that had been using Meter Postage for ballots. We know Governor Wolf said he was going to reimburse Counties for the postage. I believe meter Postage should have been illegal in this case when you are requiring a vote by a certain date.
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The problem with these "wins" in court is that it doesn't undo the fraud that has already occurred, nor while the legal ruling is being slow-walk implemented.
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Justice Samuel Alito, Prophet
Is it but coincidence, we wonder, that Samuel Alito is the Justice who led the dissenters against the decision of the Supreme Court last week to take a powder on Pennsylvania? That is, could it be merely coincidence that the justice who seems to
Justice Samuel Alito, Prophet
Editorial of The New York Sun | November 4, 2020
Is it but coincidence, we wonder, that Samuel Alito is the Justice who led the dissenters against the decision of the Supreme Court last week to take a powder on Pennsylvania? That is, could it be merely coincidence that the justice who seems to grasp the possibility of malfeasance in the swamp of Pennsylvania is the only justice to have served as United States attorney for the District of New Jersey (and to have ridden the Third Circuit, based at Philadelphia)? Or is Justice Alito just naturally savvier?
What prompts these questions is President Trump’s motion at the Supreme Court today to join the legal fray over the vote in Pennsylvania. He is picking up on Justice Alito’s statement last week in Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Kathy Boockvar, secretary of state of Pennsylvania. The GOP was trying to get the Nine to address, before the election, Republican concern over the handling of the vote in the Quaker State.
The court declined, for the moment. Justice Alito, joined by Justices Thomas and Gorsuch, did issue a remarkable statement. The Court, Justice Alito wrote in what has turned out to be an understatement, “has needlessly created conditions that could lead to serious post-election problems.” Given what’s come into view in the past twenty-four hours, it looks as if Justice Alito has the gift of pre-vision.
Justice Alito, in any event, goes on to note that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has “issued a decree that squarely alters an important statutory provision enacted by the Pennsylvania Legislature pursuant to its authority under the Constitution of the United States to make rules governing the conduct of elections for federal office.” He cited the law called Act 77, passed last year.
Act 77, in Justice Alito’s telling, “permitted all voters to cast their ballots by mail but unambiguously required that all mailed ballots be received by 8 p.m. on election day.” The law, Justice Alito noted, “also specified that if this provision was declared invalid, much of the rest of Act 77, including its liberalization of mail-in voting, would be void.” The legislature later refused to change the deadline because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Yet in the face of Act 77’s deadline, Justice Alito noted, a divided Pennsylvania court “decreed that mailed ballots need not be received by election day.” Instead, it confected a new rule — that ballots “are to be treated as timely if they are postmarked on or before election day and are received within three days thereafter.” Quaker State sages also ordered that a ballot with no postmark must be accepted if received on time.
A month ago, Justice Alito goes on, the GOP in Pennsylvania and the Quaker State Senate’s leaders asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision. They argued the state court decision violated the U.S. Constitution and “the federal statute setting a uniform date for federal elections.” Yet the high court denied the stay — “by an equally divided vote.” Justice Barrett hadn’t yet settled in.
Justice Alito acknowledged, in his statement, which was made October 28, that he understands the matter couldn’t be resolved before the election. Yet, he reckoned, that doesn’t mean that the Supreme Court can’t — after the election — grant certiorari and open up the question of whether Pennsylvania is handling these mail-in ballots in a constitutional way and seek various relief.
What we make of this is that Justice Alito has laid out the logic for President Trump to turn to the Supreme Court, as he has just done. It would be wrong for Justice Barrett, in our view, to hang back from participating in this phase of the proceedings. We need the court operating at full steam. Particularly because Pennsylvania is but one case in a rapidly expanding and historic legal contest.
We understand that the election may soon be called for Vice President Biden, making Mr. Trump’s claims look moot. Yet the Associated Press reports that the President or the GOP or both are, in addition to the President’s petition to the Supreme Court today, now in court in Pennsylvania and Michigan and Georgia, joining Republican lawsuits in Nevada and Pennsylvania. We favor taking the time to hear these claims. We see Justice Alito’s statement as a warning against a rush to judgment.
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Lawsuit: At Least 21K Dead People on Pennsylvania Voter Rolls
There are at least 21,000 dead people on the state of Pennsylvania's voter rolls, according to an amended lawsuit filed on Thursday.
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Lawsuit: At Least 21K Dead People on Pennsylvania Voter Rolls
JOHN BINDER5 Nov 20208,304
There are at least 21,000 dead people on the state of Pennsylvania’s voter rolls, according to an amended lawsuit filed on Thursday.
A lawsuit filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alleges that there are at least 21,000 dead people on Pennsylvania’s voter rolls. The lawsuit claims that Pennsylvania failed to “reasonably maintain” their voter registration records under federal and state law in time for the 2020 presidential election.
“As of October 7, 2020, at least 9,212 registrants have been dead for at least five years, at least 1,990 registrants have been dead for at least ten years, and at least 197 registrants have been dead for at least twenty years,” the lawsuit states.
“Pennsylvania still left the names of more than 21,000 dead individuals on the voter rolls less than a month before one of the most consequential general elections for federal officeholders in many years,” the lawsuit continues.
According to the lawsuit, about 92 percent of the 21,000 dead people on Pennsylvania’s voter rolls died sometime before October 2019. About 216 dead people show voting credits after federally listed dates of death in 2016 and 2018, the lawsuit alleges.
“This case is about ensuring that those deceased registrants are not receiving ballots,” PILF President J. Christian Adams said in a statement. “This case isn’t complicated.” He continued:
In May, Pennsylvania election officials admitted that duplicate ballots were mailed out to registered voters. Likewise, Judicial Watch sued Pennsylvania for allegedly having 800,000 inactive voters on their state voter rolls.
The case was filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The case number is No. 1:20-cv-01905.
Let's hope this is just the start.
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BREAKING: ‘Too Close To Call’: Georgia Headed For A Recount After Biden Takes Lead, Secretary Of State Confirms
By Tim Pearce
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Nov 6, 2020 DailyWire.com
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed Friday morning that the Peach State will recount the ballots cast in the state, citing the thin margin between votes for President Donald Trump and for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Biden took the lead in Georgia on Friday morning after Trump had held the advantage for several days while outstanding votes continued to be counted. The final margin is expected to be within a few thousand votes.
“Right now, Georgia remains too close to call,” Raffensperger said at a news conference on Friday morning. “Out of approximately 5 million votes cast, we will have a margin of a few thousand. The focus for our office and for the county election officials for now remains on making sure that every legal is counted and recorded accurately.”
By Friday morning, Biden held a lead of 917 voted with roughly 8,000 ballots remaining to be counted in the state. As The Daily Wire reported:
One major outlet called the presidential race for Biden on Friday morning. Decision Desk HQ awarded the state of Pennsylvania to Biden after he took a lead in the vote total in the state. The state gave Biden, according to the Decision Desk HQ model, 273 electoral votes, just over the 270 vote threshold needed to declare victory.
Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, and Alaska are still uncalled in the model, and for most other outlets as well. Arizona has been called for Biden by Fox News and The Associated Press, though thousands of outstanding ballots remain to be counted and Trump is gaining on Biden in the state.
The Trump campaign has filed a series of lawsuits in battleground states, the latest of which was filed in Nevada alleging thousands of ballots were cast illegally. The legal battles will likely take some time to play out in the courts and it is unclear what impact, if any, they will have on the presidential election.
The Trump campaign has not conceded the race, maintaining that “this election is not over” while legal challenges play out and outstanding ballots continue to be counted. “The false projection of Joe Biden as the winner is based on results in four states that are far from final,” Trump campaign general counsel Matt Morgan said in a statement shortly after Decision Desk HQ called the race for Biden.
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They have ignored the mandate unilaterally, thus incriminating themselves.
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UT AG Says Election Process 'Compromised,' Will Help Trump Legal Fight
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) announced Friday that he will assist President Donald Trump's campaign in its legal fight.
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Utah AG Says Election Process ‘Compromised,’ Will Help Trump Campaign Legal Fight
JOSHUA CAPLAN6 Nov 20205,017
Update — 4:51 P.M. EST: Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) says he will not take a leave of absence from his office, rather he will take a “personal weekend to help review and advise on potential lawsuits related to ensuring all legal votes are counted” with respect to the Trump campaign’s legal efforts. Read Breitbart News’ original article below:
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) announced Friday that he will assist President Donald Trump’s campaign in its legal fight, calling the 2020 presidential election process “compromised.”
“Despite months of predictions about a ‘blue wave,’ @GOP kept the Senate & expanded seats in the House,” Reyes wrote on social media. “Biden & his allies know @POTUS will win if only verified, #legal votes are counted. We are making sure that happens but looks like courts may have to decide that. #RuleOfLaw.”
He added: “On personal leave time to help prepare and support litigation in several states dealing with compromised election process.”
Reyes did not specify which states he will work on. His announcement comes days after he defeated his Democrat opponent, Salt Lake defense attorney Greg Skordas, for re-election.
The Trump campaign has alleged voter fraud in the election, filing several lawsuits in key battleground states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Nevada.
On Thursday, the Nevada Republican Party said its legal team sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice regarding alleged voter fraud in the state.
“Our lawyers just sent a criminal referral to AG Barr regarding at least 3,062 instances of voter fraud,” the Nevada GOP’s official account wrote on Twitter. “We expect that number to grow substantially. Thousands of individuals have been identified who appear to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from NV.”
The announcement came after the Trump campaign filed a federal lawsuit in Las Vegas in an effort to halt the counting of what it described was “illegal votes” in Nevada. The campaign alleges the deceased and nonresidents cast ballots in the state’s election.
Fox News reported: “The Trump campaign alleges there are “tens of thousands” of people who voted in Nevada who are no longer state residents. The campaign said it is not seeking to stop the vote but rather ensure that every “legal“ vote is counted and that no “illegal” votes are counted.”
“We are confident that when all legal votes are tallied — and only legal votes are tallied — President Trump will win the state of Nevada,” Former Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell said in a statement to Fox News.
The Justice Department is reportedly looking into allegations of voter fraud raised by the Trump campaign.
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Sekulow: Campaign Should Be 'Demanding a Manual Recount' in Places with Software that Glitched in MI
On Friday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said that the Trump campaign's lawyers should demand a manual | Clips
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Sekulow: Campaign Should Be ‘Demanding a Manual Recount’ in Places with Software that Glitched in MI
IAN HANCHETT6 Nov 2020324
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said that the Trump campaign’s lawyers should demand a manual recount of any other areas that used the same software as Antrim County, MI, a county that had errors with reported election results.
Sekulow said, [relevant remarks begin around 2:15] “If 30 states have used a software that there’s already proved to be a glitch of 6,000 votes in one balloting area, and now you’ve got over 30 states using it, lawyers should be — for the campaign, in every one of those jurisdictions, demanding the fix and demanding a manual recount.”
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GOP's 2020 Wins Make A Projected Trump Loss Look Very Fishy Indeed
It would be mystifying if Republicans won more seats in the House, retained the Senate, and picked up state seats, while the same voters went against Trump.
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We’re Supposed To Believe The GOP Had A Great Election Night Except For President?
It would be mystifying if Republicans won more seats in the House, retained the Senate, and picked up state legislative seats, all while the same voters voted against Trump.
By Joy Pullmann
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Since Joe Biden was picked to be the Democratic Party’s presidential puppet, we have been told he would win the presidency by a blowout. Political media has been speculating eagerly about another “blue wave” that would wash over the nation in line with their preposterous polls showing Biden winning by as much as 17 or even more points.
Two weeks before the election, the “nonpartisan” Cook’s Political Report predicted an expanded Democrat majority in the House, a “net gain of five to ten seats to a gain of between five and 15 seats.” On election day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrat campaign chairwoman Rep. Cheri Bustos predicted Democrats “would not only defend gains made in 2018 but flip districts thought to be in safe Republican territory.”
Last week, Democrats told the Washington Post, which described the party as “awash in cash,” they expected to flip as many as 15 House seats on Biden’s presumed presidential coattails. That didn’t happen at all. In fact, the opposite did. Now as localities run by Democrats “count” votes under suspicious circumstances, we are supposed to believe that voters selected coattails detached from a coat?
Republicans have flipped seven U.S. House races so far and Democrats flipped two, according to RealClearPolitics. That narrows Democrats’ hold on the House from 232 to 227, nine more than the majority, even if no more are flipped.
Republicans could even ultimately flip 15, as many as Democrats had hoped to.
Republicans had twice as many Senate seats to defend this election than Democrats did, and they currently appear to retain their Senate majority. So far, Democrats have flipped one seat. Far poorer-funded Republicans retained seats Democrats literally spent hundreds of millions of dollars to flip, such as Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
At the state level, USA Today reports, Democrats also failed to flip seats they had targeted, again usually with more money than Republicans. The only gubernatorial flip went from Democrat to Republican, in Montana. In congressional and state House races in Texas, Republicans also retained their majorities despite massive outside funding and high-profile targeting from Democrats.
“Democrats had methodically targeted seat pickup opportunities in several legislative chambers to flip party control in Arizona, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas,” USA Today says. “While some statehouse seats are still being tallied, Republicans held onto control of many of those places, notably in North Carolina’s state House and Senate. Texas, considered one of the biggest flip opportunities, also stayed red. Republicans likely will hold key voting majorities in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan ahead of reapportionment next year” (emphasis added).
Politico, the voice of establishment Democrat wisdom in DC, headlined its Wednesday Playbook newsletter, “What blue wave?” “Tuesday was an abject disaster for Democrats in Washington,” it said. “…We fielded text after text from Hill Democrats Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning with existential questions about their leadership and the direction of their party. Democrats told us in the weeks and months leading up to Election Day that they were on track to win the majority in the Senate, and they don’t appear poised to do that” despite setting forest fires to campaign cash.
In the end, “Republicans could have a net gain of 10 House seats,” Politico claims, squeezing Democrats’ majority. So far, the only two Democrat House pickups in the country are from redistricting in North Carolina. Republicans will win every “expected to win easily” seat, haven’t lost a single “expected to win narrowly” seat, and are ahead in all but three of the 27 “tossup” races.
Meanwhile, Republicans have already flipped three seats that were supposed to be narrow Democrat wins and are ahead in several others, and may even flip one of the “easy Democrat win” races.
This all means we saw an amazing night for Republicans on Tuesday. Toss atop that eight months of destabilizing coronavirus psychological operations on the American people designed to steal the presidency after other coup methods failed.
Then look at some odd differences between this amazing night for Republicans in downballot races and the incongruent results for Trump in just a few key states — key states that happen to be the ones everyone knew would be crucial to Trump’s path to victory, and all of which began to have “voting irregularities” and pauses in vote counting as Trump appeared to command the lead while closing in on final vote totals.
Biden was projected to win by a significant margin in all of the states on which the election now hangs (all these vote counts were as of Wednesday night and according to RealClearPolitics). There appears to be no relation to polling averages versus actual election night returns — the current vote tallies are in bold at top, to compare to the wildly inaccurate polling averages in the graphs below.
Arizona: Trump 48, Biden 51
Michigan: Trump 48, Biden 49
Pennsylvania: Trump 51, Biden 47
Wisconsin: Trump 49, Biden 49
Now look at basically the same thing going on in other states key to a Trump win, where he was declared the victor Tuesday night. Ohio is especially pertinent as it is in the Midwest, right next to Pennsylvania and Michigan, and Trump got a huge margin of victory there.
Ohio: Trump 53, Biden 45
Florida: Trump 51, Biden 48
Now let’s get a little more granular with a case study of the crucial state Pennsylvania.
Here Republicans also seem to be having a good year on the state level. In the state House, while not all vote tallies are in yet, as many as nine Republicans may unseat Democrat incumbents and five are likely to win races that lacked an incumbent. Democrats appear at best to have mostly retained incumbent seats and so far no flips for them seem to have happened.
In three races for statewide office — auditor general, secretary of state, and treasurer– Republican candidates currently have significant leads over Democrat opponents in Pennsylvania. In U.S. House races in the state, all incumbents seem to have retained their seats except what looks like a good chance for a Republican to flip a Democrat seat in District 10. In the state Senate, again incumbents all won their seats except a Republican flipped a Democrat seat.
All of this adds up to a picture in which, if these very even races tip any way at all, they are tipping Republican. This seems to match the national picture as well.
It would be mystifying if Republicans won more seats in the House, retained the Senate, and picked up state legislative seats, all while the same voters voted against Trump. Trump has solidified his support among Republican voters and enjoys a massive approval rating from them he didn’t have in 2016, and expanded his coalition to more working-class and minority voters this year. This is not a blue wave year. This is a year that the blue wave of 2018 appears to be receding.
Yet we are supposed to believe the same media-Democrat complex that fed us wildly erroneous polls all year, and runs false information operations on us about coronavirus, the Russia hoax, and everything else they can use to steal power, that this blue wave’s evaporation did not at all affect the top of the ticket?
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Supreme Court Orders Pennsylvania Ballots Received After Election Day Be Segregated
By Ryan Saavedra
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Nov 6, 2020 DailyWire.com
The United States Supreme Court issued an order late on Friday evening directing that the ballots in Pennsylvania after Election Day must be segregated from the rest of the ballots and secured—and if counted, counted separately.
“All county boards of election are hereby ordered, pending further order of the Court, to comply with the following guidance provided by the Secretary of the Commonwealth on October 28 and November 1, namely, (1) that all ballots received by mail after 8:00 p.m. on November 3 be segregated and kept ‘in a secure, safe and sealed container separate from other voted ballots,’ and (2) that all such ballots, if counted, be counted separately,” Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the Order. “Pa. Dep’t of State, Pennsylvania Guidance for Mail-in and Absentee Ballots Received From the United States Postal Service After 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 (Oct. 28, 2020); Pa. Dep’t of State, Canvassing Segregated Mail-in and Civilian Absentee Ballots Received by Mail After 8:00 p .m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 and Before 5:00 p .m. on Friday, November 6, 2020 (Nov. 1, 2020).”
“Until today, this Court was not informed that the guidance issued on October 28, which had an important bearing on the question whether to order special treatment of the ballots in question, had been modified,” the Order continued.
“The application received today also informs the Court that neither the applicant nor the Secretary has been able to verify that all boards are complying with the Secretary’s guidance, which, it is alleged, is not legally binding on them. I am immediately referring this application to the Conference and direct that any response be filed as soon as possible but in any event no later than 2 p.m. tomorrow, November 7, 2020.”
The order comes as the Trump campaign is mounting legal cases in Pennsylvania and other states where election results are close and could determine who becomes president. President Donald Trump saw a massive lead in Pennsylvania of hundreds of thousands of votes on election night evaporate as election officials tally up vote-by-mail ballots.
“Biden is ahead by more than 14,500 votes in the Keystone State and the momentum has remained in his favor in a state with 20 electoral votes that President Donald Trump cannot afford to lose,” CNN reported. “On Friday afternoon, there were more than 110,000 vote-by-mail ballots left to count in Pennsylvania, officials said. Some of the ballots that are now being counted are provisional and many others will also need extra time and care, for reasons that include damage, legibility, signature issues or other defects.”
Trump tweeted late on Friday: “I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by.
Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!”
The president also called on Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden to not declare himself the winner.
“Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the President. I could make that claim also,” Trump tweeted. “Legal proceedings are just now beginning!”
This article has been expanded after publication to include additional information.
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Tom Fitton (Judicial Watch) on the breaking of federal election law. Either cut off the vote count as of the proper day or hold a new election in those states. Nothing less would restore the legitimacy of the election and adherence to the rule of law
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Philadelphia not letting observers in defies state law and judicial orders. The only reason you don't want observers is because you are doing something you don't want observed.
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Tom Fitton (Judicial Watch) on the breaking of federal election law. Either cut off the vote count as of the proper day or hold a new election in those states. Nothing less would restore the legitimacy of the election and adherence to the rule of law
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Philadelphia not letting observers in defies state law and judicial orders. The only reason you don't want observers is because you are doing something you don't want observed.
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Trump Team reports sheriff refuses to enforce court order
•Nov 6, 2020
One America News Network
In a few battleground states all across the nation, the President’s team continues to fight to ensure a fair counting of the remaining ballots. One America’s Chanel Rion has more from Washington.
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Georgia Democrats Going Door-to-Door to Fix Flawed Ballots, Told to ‘Minimize’ Helping Republicans
The Georgia Democrat Party trained activists Wednesday night on how to go door-to-door to fix ballots rejected on Election Day. | Politics
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Georgia Democrats Going Door-to-Door to Fix Flawed Ballots, Told to ‘Minimize’ Helping Republicans
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KYLE OLSON5 Nov 20203,560
The Georgia Democrat Party trained activists Wednesday night on how to go door-to-door to fix ballots rejected on Election Day.
Called ballot “curing,” the party is able to identify individuals who had defective ballots due to incorrect marking, mismatched signatures, or some other flaw. They are then visiting those voters in person and encouraging them to fix their ballots to count for the Democrats.
Breitbart News observed the training, called “Ballot Rescue Team In-Person Voter Outreach,” which took place Wednesday night and was conducted by Jessi Grass and Kim Hood, two out-of-state activists who are working on gathering votes in Georgia.
“We are still voting,” Grass told the group. She said the party is able to collect corrected ballots until 5:00 p.m. Friday.
Hood assailed vote integrity measures such as a signature on a ballot, calling it a “tool of voter suppression.”
She argued a determination on a mismatched signature is made by “someone who is not a handwriting expert.”
Another slide, titled “Vote-By-Mail Ballot Issues,” identifies problems that could spoil a ballot — as well as a candidate for curing. The problems include:
- Missing a signature
- Signature mismatch issue
- First-time voter did not provide required ID
Grass said that the activists need to have a “case worker mentality” and “empathize” with voters, telling them the activist is just trying to make their vote count.
But they made it clear they only want to help Democrat voters, so if an activist visits the home of a voter who said they cast a ballot for a Republican, they should leave and not assist them. The party’s intent is to “minimize knocking on doors of Republicans.”
Another slide in the presentation said, “Check they’re voting for Democrats”:
Several critics also attended the training, and Grass defended the practice when one questioned it.
The names of the voters who cast an uncounted ballot is “public record” as the state releases the list.
Another slide, titled “Signature issues on the Ballot,” recommended taking a picture of the voter’s ID to send to election officials:
“If signature is missing or a mismatch, ballot will not be accepted,” the slide read.
“The Cure: send a copy of their ID; include a signed affidavit to the county [election office],” it said.
Grass said 5,000 such names were released on Wednesday, and more would be made public on Thursday and Friday mornings.
The training indicated the vote, or supporting documentation, could be submitted by email or text:
“Submit affidavit and ID to their county registrar (photo sent via email count!),” it read.
Their work “hopefully will turn the presidential race,” Grass said.
According to the New York Times, 96 percent of ballots have been counted in Georgia and Trump has a narrow 49.6 percent to 49.2 percent lead.
Trump currently has an 18,540-vote lead in the Peach State.
A message to the Georgia Republican Party, seeking clarity on whether it was conducting a similar program, was not immediately returned.
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Nevada GOP sends criminal referral to DOJ, claims thousands voted in Nevada who don't reside there
"Thousands of individuals have been identified who appear to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from NV.”
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Nevada GOP sends criminal referral to DOJ, claims thousands voted in Nevada who don’t reside there
Posted by: James E. Lewis|November 6, 2020
LAS VEGAS, NV – The Nevada Republican Committee has sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice after they claim that thousands of people voted in Nevada but didn’t reside there.
The Nevada GOP released an official statement:
“Our lawyers just sent a criminal referral to AG Barr regarding at least 3,062 instances of voter fraud. We expect that number to grow substantially. Thousands of individuals have been identified who appear to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from NV.”
Just hours before this announcement, the Trump campaign filed a federal lawsuit in Las Vegas to halt ballot counting of “illegal” votes in Nevada. The Trump campaign indicates that deceased persons and non-residents voting was the basis for the suit.
Fox News reports:
“The Trump campaign alleges there are “tens of thousands” of people who voted in Nevada who are no longer state residents. The campaign said it is not seeking to stop the vote but rather ensure that every “legal“ vote is counted and that no “illegal” votes are counted.”
Former Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell explained:
“We are confident that when all legal votes are tallied — and only legal votes are tallied — President Trump will win the state of Nevada.
Ballots are not automatically legal votes until they are checked. We are not being allowed to check.
If you haven’t been in the state for 30 days, it is illegal to vote. The fact is, we are filing this federal lawsuit to protect legal voters.
It is unacceptable in this country to have illegal votes counted, and that’s what’s happening in the state of Nevada.”
According to a report by The Hill, the Washington Post reported that the party’s lawyers sent Attorney General William Barr a list of voters identified by cross-checking voter registration names and addresses with the National Change of Address database.
Two points to note:
“Nevada law allows residents to cast ballots after moving out of state if they are serving in the military, a spouse of someone in the military or attending school.”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is involved and argued against the Republican party. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nevada pointed out in a tweet Thursday following the criminal referral announcement that voters in the state do not lose their eligibility to vote when they leave the state temporarily.
“The ACLU of Nevada is watching to be sure this election remains fair and we are prepared to fight if any serious cases are filed.”
It should be noted that the Republican party did not delineate voters out of state temporarily for military service or school, but pointed to people who no longer reside in Nevada or had recently moved to the state and had not been there at least 30 days.
The Clark County (NV) Registrar of Voters, Joe Gloria, gave a long statement and press conference yesterday. When asked about allegations of voter fraud, he gave a short response:
“We’re firm in our commitment to making sure that we’re processing ballots with high integrity.”
This statement by Joe Gloria seems to echo, nearly word-for-word, the statements of election officials, secretaries of state, and attorneys general in several states.
It is exceptionally curious that in the states with the most voter fraud allegations and accusations of irregularities, Democrats control the government. That is true for Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. In most of the southern and midwestern states, Trump won resoundingly, sometimes by more than 20 percentage points.
The Pennsylvania Secretary of State, Kathy Boockvar, was called out yesterday during a press conference where she attempted to update the press on election matters in Pennsylvania, and especially the controversy surrounding Philadelphia.
She was asked about vicious, horrible, and partisan tweets she’d made against President Trump in the past. She simply indicated that it was 4 years ago, and when she took her oath of office, she promised to be fair. Sounds eerily familiar to Trump voters, to be sure.When asked about her negative Trump tweets from the past, PA Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar assures everyone that was in the past, and she since took an oath of office so her personal feelings won’t impact her job.
— Sharyl Attkisson️(@SharylAttkisson) November 5, 2020
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"Thousands of individuals have been identified who appear to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from NV.”
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Report: Democrat operative who pushed vote-by-mail also pushed the phony Russian dossier
November 5, 2020
UNITED STATES- Enjoying all the havoc surrounding the 2020 election? How would you feel if the same Democratic lawyer behind the changes in voting laws across the country that has turned our election process into that of a third-world banana republic was also behind the Russian dossier to smear President Trump for the 2016 election?
Meet Marc Elias, who works for a Washington, DC law firm, Perkins Coie.
Elias also at one time represented one Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign.
He also served as general counsel for John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004, and works as counsel for the Democratic National Committee, and the party’s House and Senate campaign committees.
The Washington Post reported in 2017 that Elias and Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS to conduct opposition “research” against President Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Moreover, many critics claimed that neither Clinton nor the DNC had properly reported the payments to Fusion GPS in campaign finance filings.
To refresh your memory, Fusion GPS hired disgraced former British spy Christopher Steele, who invented the collusion hoax which haunted the Trump campaign and then the first three years of his presidency.
That hoax was ultimately disproven, however cost millions in taxpayer money to fund the Mueller investigation which found no such collusion.
Part of Steele’s handiwork was a phony dossier, which led to the FBI obtaining FISA warrants even though the FBI knew the information was bogus. They were just attempting to fish for some dirt on President Trump and members of his administration.
Breitbart News reported as they have throughout the 2020 election cycle that Elias had demanded changes to voting procedures, such as vote-by-mail nationwide, and less restrictive voting rules, which he suggested in an article in The Atlantic—an anti-Trump pile of birdcage liner.
Lest you doubt that his suggestions had some less than honorable intentions, they were endorsed by Hillary Clinton.
Democrats found a great excuse to totally upend the election system—COVID-19. Under the excuse of trying to “limit the spread” and other such nonsense, Elias made several suggestions, including:
- Expand curbside voting to ALL ages (unknown if he really meant ALL ages, or just legal ages)
- Allow early voting on weekends
- Adopt vote-anywhere rules
- Create systems for voters to vote at non-peak times in order to reduce lines.
In September, the New Republic glowed about Elias, calling him, “The Man Who Is Determined to Stop Trump From Rigging the Election.” Guess they didn’t say anything about Democrats rigging the election.
According to that article, by early September, Elias was involved in 32 election-related cases in 19 states. Most of that litigation surrounded his so-called “four pillars” of protecting vote by mail:
- providing prepaid postage from states,
- counting mail-in ballots as long as they’re postmarked on or before Election Day,
- making it harder for election officials to toss out ballots if the signature doesn’t exactly match the one on file,
- letting local groups gather sealed absentee ballots to submit on voters behalf, which in most circles is called ballot harvesting.
Elias filed lawsuits to expand early voting in North Carolina and Georgia ostensibly to prevent long lines.
In the ultimate display of hysterical irony, the article quoted Elias as saying:
“Donald Trump has shown a willingness to violate every norm that one associates with the president of the United States, and even the law in order to advance his political interests, and I expect that between now and the election we will continue to see him do everything he can to win reelection.”
Given the circus we’ve been exposed to this week, the only ones showing their “willingness to violate every norm” is the Democratic party.
As President Trump and the Republicans were rightly concerned about when Democratic-controlled states vastly expanded mail-in voting, including Nevada which implemented it a mere six-weeks before the election, we have seen what mass mail-in voting can become.
The Trump campaign rightly sued Pennsylvania, where all 67 election boards were using ballot drop boxes where people could just drop off their ballots, outside of the U.S. Postal Service. What could possibly go wrong with that?
Elias believes the legal system (his legal system) can “protect the integrity of American elections.”
If what we’ve seen the past few days is his definition of “integrity,” we’ll take a hard pass.
Meanwhile, last month Democrat Joe Biden let it “slip” that he had “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Given his mental acuity, did he misspeak or did he inadvertently tell the truth?
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More ballots arriving in Georgia from overseas and provisional voters
POLITICS| Nov 5, 2020
By Mark Niesse, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thousands of military, overseas and provisional ballots will soon be added to Georgia’s vote count, another trove of votes besides those already accounted for.
There were 8,899 absentee ballots from military and overseas voters that hadn’t yet been returned to election offices in Georgia as of Thursday morning, according to the secretary of state’s office. Another 17,529 overseas ballots had already been returned and counted.
Military and overseas ballots have a later deadline than other absentee ballots, according to federal law.
While Georgia’s deadline for domestic absentee ballots is 7 p.m. on Election Day, overseas absentee ballots will be counted if they’re postmarked by Tuesday and received at county election offices by Friday.
In addition, voters have until Friday to correct problems with provisional and absentee ballots.
Election officials lack a statewide count of outstanding provisional ballots in Georgia, which were issued when voters went to the wrong precinct, their registration information couldn’t be found or they lacked photo ID.
Fulton County reported 3,900 provisional ballots, and DeKalb County had 1,600. But data on how many provisional ballots were pending in most other counties weren’t available.
Election officials will count provisional ballots without any further action needed from voters in many cases. For example, if a ballot was cast in the wrong precinct, votes will be counted for races that the voter was eligible to participate in.
But if voters' registration information is in question, they would need to provide it to county elections offices before the end of the day Friday for their ballots to be counted.
Voters also face a Friday deadline to correct problems with rejected absentee ballots. Election officials had rejected nearly 2,000 absentee ballots through Thursday, mostly for mismatched or missing signatures.
More ballots arriving in Georgia from overseas and provisional voters
POLITICS| Nov 5, 2020
By Mark Niesse, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thousands of military, overseas and provisional ballots will soon be added to Georgia’s vote count, another trove of votes besides those already accounted for.
There were 8,899 absentee ballots from military and overseas voters that hadn’t yet been returned to election offices in Georgia as of Thursday morning, according to the secretary of state’s office. Another 17,529 overseas ballots had already been returned and counted.
Military and overseas ballots have a later deadline than other absentee ballots, according to federal law.
While Georgia’s deadline for domestic absentee ballots is 7 p.m. on Election Day, overseas absentee ballots will be counted if they’re postmarked by Tuesday and received at county election offices by Friday.
In addition, voters have until Friday to correct problems with provisional and absentee ballots.
Election officials lack a statewide count of outstanding provisional ballots in Georgia, which were issued when voters went to the wrong precinct, their registration information couldn’t be found or they lacked photo ID.
Fulton County reported 3,900 provisional ballots, and DeKalb County had 1,600. But data on how many provisional ballots were pending in most other counties weren’t available.
Election officials will count provisional ballots without any further action needed from voters in many cases. For example, if a ballot was cast in the wrong precinct, votes will be counted for races that the voter was eligible to participate in.
But if voters' registration information is in question, they would need to provide it to county elections offices before the end of the day Friday for their ballots to be counted.
Voters also face a Friday deadline to correct problems with rejected absentee ballots. Election officials had rejected nearly 2,000 absentee ballots through Thursday, mostly for mismatched or missing signatures.
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Will there be a Pennsylvania recount? Here are the rules.
A mandatory recount in Pennsylvania depends on the margin of the final vote results
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Will there be a Pennsylvania recount? Here are the rules.
Nate ChuteYork Daily Record
The vote in Pennsylvania is very close, with Joe Biden holding a narrow lead in his bid for the presidency.
With the race being this close, the Associated Press has not called the race for Biden or Trump as of Friday morning. A Biden victory in Pennsylvania means he would have enough Electoral College votes to be declared the winner.
With the tight margin between the two candidates, a recount could happen. Here are the rules for a possible recount:
PA mandatory vs. requested recounts
In Pennsylvania, if the margin of victory is 0.5% of the vote or closer, a mandatory recount will take place. Candidates cannot request a recount but can appeal the “order or decision of any county board regarding the computation or canvassing of the returns of any primary or election, or regarding any recount or recanvass thereof.”
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Individual voters can request a recount. In individual precincts or election districts, a recount can be requested if at least three voters make such a request in the court of common pleas. The deadline for a recount to be ordered is 5 p.m. Nov. 12.
Are Pennsylvania recounts done by hand?
In the event of a recount, the Secretary of the Commonwealth would order all county boards of election to conduct it. All ballot boxes would be opened and the “entire vote of the election district” will be counted.
The county boards must recount all ballots using manual, mechanical or electronic devices of a different type than that used for the specific election. This means paper ballots can be counted by hand.
The results of the recount must be recorded on form DSBE RE-CBE and transmitted back to the Secretary of the Commonwealth no later than noon the day after the county has completed the recount.
Livestream:Watch the mail-in ballot counting in Philadelphia
Under mandatory recounts, counties have three weeks after election results have been made official by the state to complete a recount. Under a requested recount, there is no set deadline.
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Tom Fitton (Judicial Watch) talks about the law and what is going on with this election
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Pa. Secy of State accused of illegal vote counting | One America News Network
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Pa. Secy Of State Accused Of Illegal Vote Counting
Conservative radio host Mark Levin. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
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UPDATED 8:00 PM PT – Friday, November 6, 2020
Conservative radio host Mark Levin slammed the Pennsylvania Secretary of State for her handling of ballot counting.
On Thursday, Levin accused Secretary Kathy Boockvar (D-Pa.) of breaking the law by counting votes that arrived after Election Day without valid postmarks. Levin said the Constitution grants states the right to direct their elections and Boockvar is allowing federal laws to take over.
“The reason why election statutes were left to the states, Mr. Producer, is because the states demanded it,” Levin noted. “They did not want the federal government interfering with the manner in which they set the vote, nor did they want courts interfering with a…political process.”
Levin also accused the Supreme Court of dereliction of duty for not taking up a case before the election.
In the meantime, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany slammed Twitter after it flagged a post by the conservative radio host.
Levin’s tweet simply reminded Republican state legislatures they have the final say when choosing electors, a move which theoretically could avoid a Joe Biden presidency. McEnany defended the post by saying it merely articulated a clause in Article II of the Constitution.
However, Twitter claimed some or all of the content in the tweet is disputed and labeled it as misleading.
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Faithless electors could determine presidential election | One America News Network
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Faithless Electors Could Determine Presidential Election
Stacks of ballots await to be counted for the general election inside the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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As Americans are keeping a close eye on the increasingly tight election, many are turning to the possibility of faithless electors.
When voters cast their ballot, they are technically selecting electors to vote for their presidential pick. These electors are generally party loyalists and almost always dutifully vote for their party’s candidate.
“Most people don’t know who their electors are, but they are real people,”explained Lara Brown, an associated professor at George Washington University. “They are, in fact, people who have already been chosen by their political party.”
However, a faithless elector could potentially defect and vote for the other candidate or abstain from casting a vote at all.
Although this is an extremely rare situation and has only happened 85 times in U.S. history, such an occurrence could potentially change the election results in a race as close as this.
Most recently, this happened in 2016 when President Trump lost two electoral votes and then-Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton lost five. This was not enough to alter voting results, although it potentially could in a race as close as the 2020 presidential election.
However, several states have laws aimed at binding electors to their statewide or district majorities. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled to uphold these regulations, citing the potential threat of chaos and bribery from the losing party.
The electoral college will meet to cast their votes on December 14 and the House of Representatives will then go on to approve the final tally.
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What to Know About Litigation Being Waged Across U.S. to Preserve Trump Presidency
We all knew Election Day 2020 wouldn’t be normal. And yet it still seems remarkable that we don’t know yet who will be the president of the United States on Jan. 20. And we may not know for some time if we’ll have four more years of President Donald Trump or a newly inaugurated President Joe Biden.
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What to Know About Litigation Being Waged Across U.S. to Preserve Trump Presidency
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We all knew Election Day 2020 wouldn’t be normal. And yet it still seems remarkable that we don’t know yet who will be the president of the United States on Jan. 20.
And we may not know for some time if we’ll have four more years of President Donald Trump or a newly inaugurated President Joe Biden.
Even if news organizations declare a winner in the close presidential race, that’s not the official result. States have until Dec. 8 to settle any election disputes and certify their results before the meeting of state electors in every state Dec. 14, when they cast their Electoral College votes for president.
While knowing who won a presidential election usually doesn’t take this long, it isn’t unprecedented if it does. Think back to Bush v. Gore. There, the race between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore wasn’t decided until December, when the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in to end any further vote recounts in Florida because of the mistakes made by state courts and election officials.
Everyone hopes it won’t come to that again, but election-related litigation is already underway at a dizzying pace and could play a key role in deciding what has morphed into an incredibly tight race.
Here’s a look at legal fights in key states.
Pennsylvania
The litigation in Pennsylvania started well before Election Day. An evenly divided U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 and left in place a ruling by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court requiring officials to count absentee ballots received by Friday, Nov. 6.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court had also ruled that state officials could not reject late-received ballots unless they could produce evidence that the ballot was mailed after Election Day—and that they could not reject ballots due to mismatched voter signatures. That’s a basic ballot integrity procedure used in many jurisdictions.
The U.S. Supreme Court also declined a subsequent request to rule on the merits of the dispute before the election, and may now have put itself in the unenviable position of ruling on the merits of the dispute after the election—which could, in effect, decide the outcome. Presumably recognizing this fact, President Trump’s campaign filed a motion Wednesday to intervene in the case.
Still, that’s not the only pending litigation in Pennsylvania. It gets messy, so hold on.
Also on Wednesday, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit seeking to allow observers to be close enough to actually observe the counting of ballots in Philadelphia. A Pennsylvania state trial court rejected the request, but the next day, a Pennsylvania appellate court reversed the ruling.
The appeals court said that “effective immediately … all candidates, watchers, or candidate representatives [shall] be permitted to be present for the canvassing process … and be permitted to observe all aspects of the canvassing process within 6 feet, while adhering to all COVID-19 protocols, including, wearing masks and maintaining social distancing.”
The Philadelphia Board of Elections filed an emergency petition that same day (Thursday) with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, asking it to overturn the appellate court’s decision. The petition remains pending there.
But that’s not the end of this particular saga.
After the Pennsylvania intermediate appellate court issued its order, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Philadelphia claiming that the Board of Elections is “nonetheless continuing to count ballots, without any observations by any representatives or poll watchers of President Trump and the Republican Party.”
Clearly, this issue remains to be resolved, given that Philadelphia is apparently refusing to comply with the court order.
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee also filed a lawsuit where they argued that the Pennsylvania secretary of state wrongly extended the deadline from Nov. 9 to Nov. 12 for absentee and mail-in voters to provide missing proof of identification.
A Pennsylvania state court judge ordered that “the county boards of elections shall segregate ballots for which identification is received and verified on November 10, 11, and 12, 2020, from ballots for which identification is received and verified on or before November 9, 2020,” pending resolution of the matter.
Republican candidates and officials also filed a lawsuit challenging Montgomery County officials’ decision to notify voters whose ballots are defective and giving them a chance to “cure” the defects—something not authorized under state law.
Other outside groups, such as the Public Interest Legal Foundation, have also filed lawsuits. The foundation specifically filed a suit against the Pennsylvania Department of State for failing to maintain accurate voter rolls and remove individuals who have died, moved out of state, or otherwise become ineligible to vote.
Georgia and Michigan
President Trump’s campaign lost legal challenges in both Georgia and Michigan on Thursday.
In Georgia, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit after a GOP observer said he had observed Chatham County (Savannah) election officials comingling late ballots with on-time ballots. Absentee ballots in Georgia must be received by the end of Election Day. After hearing testimony from both sides of the dispute, a Georgia state court judge dismissed the case.
In Michigan, like in Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign filed a suit against the secretary of state asking to be allowed to “meaningfully participate and oversee” the vote-counting process.
However, because the vote counting, done primarily by local officials, had already been completed, the judge denied the request. She said that in her view, there was no meaningful relief left to provide.
Other claims were also raised in Georgia and rejected. What is unexplained is why election officials refused to comply with a state law that requires qualified poll watchers to be able to observe every aspect of the voting and ballot-counting process.
Just like in Philadelphia, one has to wonder—what were they trying to hide?
Nevada
The Trump campaign has also teased, but hasn’t yet filed, a lawsuit in Nevada where it alleges that many ineligible voters—some deceased, some non-residents—cast votes. The significant problems with Nevada’s voter rolls have been well documented, including by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which recently produced a video showing voters illegally registered at commercial businesses such as casinos and pawn shops, as well as vacant lots.
Arizona
In Arizona, the Public Interest Legal Foundation has also filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County on behalf of voters who claim they were unable to cast a ballot due to errors by election officials. They allege they were given Sharpies to complete their ballots, even though the computer scanners used with opti-scan paper ballots cannot process such ballots.
Now What?
Clearly, this election has generated significant litigation. We can’t help but wonder if a lot of it could have been avoided if election officials had heeded our warnings about the dangers of mail-in voting and changing election procedures too close to an election without their state legislature’s approval.
We might also have avoided some of these problems if election officials had complied with their state laws guaranteeing candidates and political parties complete access to the process. Failure to do so damages the transparency essential to maintaining public confidence in the integrity of elections.
Two things should be kept in mind.
First, gathering the evidence of misconduct, fraud, and other problems that may have compromised an election is extremely difficult and expensive. As an Indiana state court pointed out in an election fraud case in 2004, “the time constraints that govern election contests, primarily designed to serve important interests and needs of election officials and the public interest in finality, simply do not work well in those elections where misconduct” is widespread and multifaceted.
Second, courts are usually very reluctant to overturn election results even with substantial evidence of possible problems that raise questions about the legitimacy of the outcome. Thus, no matter what the merits are of the claims being made by the Trump campaign, they face an uphill battle in the courts.
Here’s what’s clear at this point: Every legally cast ballot should count and be counted. Those that were not legally cast should not.
Hopefully, this litigation will be a reminder that clear election rules established by state legislatures well before an election can avoid delays and problems after an election. The same is true if election officials comply with the law instead of defying it.
In other words, as Benjamin Franklin wisely advised in 1736: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
This piece originally appeared in Fox News on 11/6/20
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Justice Alito Hints Toward SCOTUS Taking Up Case Of Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballots
By Ashe Schow
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s order to Pennsylvania requiring the state to segregate ballots received after 8:00 p.m. November 3 is being seen as a hint that the highest court in the country may be willing to accept a case stemming from the election in that state.
As The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra previously reported, Alito’s order required Pennsylvania to segregate the ballots and count them separately, if they’re counted at all.
“All county boards of election are hereby ordered, pending further order of the Court, to comply with the following guidance provided by the Secretary of the Commonwealth on October 28 and November 1, namely, (1) that all ballots received by mail after 8:00 p.m. on November 3 be segregated and kept ‘in a secure, safe and sealed container separate from other voted ballots,’ and (2) that all such ballots, if counted, be counted separately,” Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the Order. “Pa. Dep’t of State, Pennsylvania Guidance for Mail-in and Absentee Ballots Received From the United States Postal Service After 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 (Oct. 28, 2020); Pa. Dep’t of State, Canvassing Segregated Mail-in and Civilian Absentee Ballots Received by Mail After 8:00 p .m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 and Before 5:00 p .m. on Friday, November 6, 2020 (Nov. 1, 2020).”
“Until today, this Court was not informed that the guidance issued on October 28, which had an important bearing on the question whether to order special treatment of the ballots in question, had been modified,” the order continued.
“The application received today also informs the Court that neither the applicant nor the Secretary has been able to verify that all boards are complying with the Secretary’s guidance, which, it is alleged, is not legally binding on them. I am immediately referring this application to the Conference and direct that any response be filed as soon as possible but in any event no later than 2 p.m. tomorrow, November 7, 2020.”
Alito’s order required Pennsylvania to follow “guidance” that had been previously issued by Secretary of the Commonwealth Katherine Boockvar. As RedState reported, because Alito’s order was made at a time Republicans are seeking to win the presidential election through litigation.
“The backdrop for Justice Alito’s Order on Friday night is an application made by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, among others, to have their petition pending with the Supreme Court, challenging the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court expedited and resolved prior to election day. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Order extended by three days the deadline by which mailed-in ballots could be received and still counted when Pennsylvania election law states explicitly that for a ballot to be validly cast it must be received by election officials before 8:00 pm on election day,” the outlet reported.
The order hints at the possibility that the case could reach the Supreme Court, and that perhaps the highest court would accept it, leading to a final showdown in the 2020 presidential election.
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Trump Files Suit Alleging Arizona Wrongly Rejected Election Day Ballots
President Trump filed a lawsuit on Saturday in the swing state of Arizona, alleging that in-person voters wrongly had their ballots rejected.
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Trump Files Lawsuit Alleging Arizona Wrongly Rejected Election Day Ballots
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President Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit on Saturday in the swing state of Arizona, alleging that in-person voters wrongly had their ballots rejected.
The lawsuit details cases in Maricopa County, Arizon, where eligible voters showed up on election day to cast their vote and subsequently had their ballot rejected.
In one case, Mia Barcello said she marked her ballot at an Anthem, Arizona, polling site with an ink pen that permeated through the ballot. When the ballot was fed through a tabulation device, it was rejected, according to the lawsuit.
Barcello said she was told to press a “green button labeled ‘Cast’ on the device but was not told that doing so “likely would cause her selections in all candidate races or ballot proposition affected by the putative overvote or other defect or irregularity to be automatically disqualified and not tabulated.”
“Upon information and belief, a visual inspection of Ms. Barcello’s ballot would confirm that she had not ‘overvoted’ any candidate race or ballot proposition, and that her intended selections could be identified with reasonable certainty,” the lawsuit states.
In other cases, polling observers said they witnessed “numerous instances” of voters having their ballots rejected due to issues with tabulation devices:
Matt Morgan, general counsel with the Trump campaign, said Maricopa County’s voting machines wrongly “disregarded votes cast by voters in person on election day.”
“Poll workers struggled to operate the new voting machines in Maricopa County, and improperly pressed and told voters to press a green button to override significant errors,” Morgan said.
Already, the Public Interest Legal Foundation has filed a lawsuit in Arizona demanding that ballots rejected as a result of an alleged issue with Sharpie markers be restored. In Nevada, the Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit to demand the state stop counting ballots by “not proper voters.”
The lawsuit is asking for manual inspection of these supposed overvoted ballots that were cast by voters in-person on election day. Other voters who had similar issues are being advised by the Trump campaign to file their complaints at DontTouchTheGreenButton.com.
The lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona.
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Trump Campaign Taking Numerous New Legal Actions In Election Battle
By Ryan Saavedra
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Nov 7, 2020 DailyWire.com
On Saturday night, Fox News correspondent John Roberts highlighted numerous new legal actions that President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is taking as it seeks to continue its fight for a second term in the White House.
The report, which Roberts delivered on television, comes as many news organizations declared Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election, even though some states have not been called and the campaign is challenging other results in the courts.
“The legal action is flying fast and furious,” Roberts told Fox News host Shannon Bream. “You mentioned Arizona, specifically Maricopa County, the Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit alleging that many in-person votes were rejected because people who came in to vote had accidentally overvoted, that is voted accidentally for two people for the same office.”
Roberts said that the lawsuit alleges that those ballots were “rejected as opposed to being allowed to correct their ballots.”
“In just the last hour, in Nevada, an election worker, whose job was to process mail-in ballots, says he witnessed irregularities in counting those ballots and was told by a supervisor, whom he names, to put through ballots he believed needed signature verification without that verification first being done,” Roberts continued. “He says he was also told to ignore discrepancies with addresses. That worker has sworn out an affidavit which has been sent to the Department of Justice here in Washington.”
Roberts then read off the following statement from the campaign:
“On top of that, the campaign is going to be filing new lawsuits in Pennsylvania on Monday. Rudy Giuliani says that he believes that there are 135,000 votes in Pennsylvania County and about 300 and some odd thousand votes in Allegheny County that were put through without being inspected first,” Roberts continued.
“And then there’s another new lawsuit that is going to be coming in Nevada probably Monday morning as well, which is separate from the affidavit from this election worker.”
“The president believes, he’s also being encouraged by his family, that he owes it to the 71 million people who voted for him to make sure that every legal vote has been counted and to make sure to the best of his ability that every illegal vote that might have made it through was not counted,” Roberts continued.
“Now, everybody’s wondering what might happen with the president eventually.
I’m told that when he goes through this legal process, and there’s also recounts involved as well … and comes out the other end, if there is no path to a second term, then the president will graciously concede and he will cooperate in an orderly transition of power.”
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But by who?
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I think some state legislators were calling for an audit. Apparently that is done by people who were not involved with the original count. I imagine it is a sampling for irregularities.
Personally, I think Detroit and Philadelphia's counts should be voided because of breaking the law and blocking Republican counting observers. The Wisconsin provisional votes that were unlawfully completed by poll workers should be set aside and all counts that were done by those suspect machines in battleground states should be manually recounted with proper observers.
Tis would restore some of the integrity. At the very least, stop the counting for anything that did not come in by the legal deadline. Nix the sudden Biden-only ballots that arrived in the wee hours after everyone went home.
Personally, I think Detroit and Philadelphia's counts should be voided because of breaking the law and blocking Republican counting observers. The Wisconsin provisional votes that were unlawfully completed by poll workers should be set aside and all counts that were done by those suspect machines in battleground states should be manually recounted with proper observers.
Tis would restore some of the integrity. At the very least, stop the counting for anything that did not come in by the legal deadline. Nix the sudden Biden-only ballots that arrived in the wee hours after everyone went home.
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23:24 min
Can Trump get Supreme Court to Intervene?
•Premiered Nov 6, 2020
Zooming In with Simone Gao
What are the prospects of the Lawsuits the Trump campaign filed? Can Trump get Supreme Court to Intervene? Simone Gao interviewed Shawn Steel, the Republican National Committee Member from California.
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Agree with you. I can not see how the Supreme Court would not see that these Cities were doing something irregular and possibly illegal. Hence To be fair to the Country all votes made only by Nov 3rd should be allowed. But also the consideration of a full investigation of voting machines that had been changing votes also needs to be part of the outcome.
If it is proven that a special coded software add votes for Biden after a certain percentage then Trump has his winning ticket to prove Fraud.
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This is the big "if."
I pray that justice will be done! That there really are "good guys" out there who can stop the fraud.
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Rudy Giuliani: Trump campaign has enough evidence to change Pennsylvania election results
President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said he has evidence that may change the results of the presidential electoral map.
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Rudy Giuliani: Trump campaign has enough evidence to change Pennsylvania election results
by Anthony Leonardi, Breaking News Reporter
| November 08, 2020 12:34 PM
President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said he has evidence that may change the results of the presidential electoral map.
In a Sunday interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Giuliani said the lawsuits being filed by the Trump campaign might reveal that up to 900,000 invalid ballots were cast in the state of Pennsylvania, a key election swing state several news outlets projected presumptive President-elect Joe Biden would win. "Do you believe that you have enough to actually change the fate of the election?" Bartiromo asked.
"Well, I think we have enough to change Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania election was a disaster," Giuliani said. "We have people that observed people being pushed out of the polling place. We have people who were suggested to vote the other way and shown how to do it. I'm giving you the big picture."
Giuliani described details of its investigation in Pennsylvania, which may translate to new lawsuits this week, as early as Monday. He alleged Republican observers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were "kept out of the room or kept away from the room" for 24-hours where mail-in ballots were counted, adding that 135,000 ballots were counted during that time period.
"Even though we went to court, and we were allowed to move 6 feet closer, the Democrat-machine people moved the counting place six feet further away. This is documented on videotape. There are upwards of 50 witnesses," Giuliani said, which would be the subject of a Monday civil rights lawsuit on Monday.
Giuliani said the Trump team was also looking into whether ballots were cast in the name of people who are already dead and if ballots were "back-dated."
"We have evidence now, from not only the Post Office but from others, that there was back-dating. I can only tell you right now that that amounts to about 2,000 or 3,000 votes," Giuliani said.
In a statement released on Saturday through his campaign, Trump declared, "This election is far from over."
"Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor," the statement reads.
On Friday, Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ordered all Pennsylvania county boards of elections to segregate late-arrival ballots from the rest of the mail-in ballots during the counting process. However, Democrats in the state have said the Supreme Court should not involve itself in the election and that the election's outcome would be unlikely to change.
According to Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts, sources tell him the president would "graciously concede" the election if unsuccessful in his legal efforts. "I’m told that, you know, in addition to the president wanting to see this done, the president is really being supported and being pushed to some degree by his family who want to make sure every legal vote was counted and that no illegal votes were counted," Roberts said.
He added that if Trump "does not see a path to continuing in as the president of the United States, he will graciously concede and work on a peaceful and appropriate transfer of power," according to words given to him.
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Trump campaign staff claims to have statistical evidence of fraud in Wisconsin
As the president's path to 270 Electoral College votes narrows virtually every day, some members of his campaign say statistical evidence of fraud in Wisconsin could give him a victory.
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Sunday, November 08, 2020
Trump campaign staff claims to have statistical evidence of fraud in Wisconsin
by Joseph Simonson, Political Reporter |
| November 08, 2020 03:17 PM
As the president's path to 270 Electoral College votes narrows virtually every day, some members of his campaign say statistical evidence of fraud in Wisconsin could give him a victory.
One member of President Trump's reelection team who spoke with the Washington Examiner on the condition of anonymity said ballot data in Milwaukee indicates illegal activity by Democrats in the city. The distribution of those ballots in favor of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden, the individual alleged, violates Benford's Law — an analytical framework used by statisticians when observing a set of randomized data points.
Benford's Law is often used by election analysts, both in the United States and abroad, to detect voter fraud or other sorts of improprieties in elections. U.S. government agencies, like the U.S. Department of Agriculture, often apply Benford's Law when auditing information from farmers who rely on federal subsidies.
"The farmer was asked how much of each crop he harvested in the past year. I put together all of the quantities produced of all possible crops," wrote one government analyst in 2006. "I find that more quantities produced begin with a five than would be suggested by Benford's Law while fewer begin with a four, six, or seven. I can reject that the data comes from Benford's distribution."
The Washington Examiner has not analyzed Wisconsin's voter data sets to see if they violate Benford's Law, nor is any purported violation proof that criminal activity took place in the state. Some statisticians question its applicability, particularly in an election where ballot counters are organizing returns in a manner that differs from precinct to precinct.
Still, an adviser to the Trump campaign believes pro-Trump internet sleuths are onto something when they say there is an artificial distribution of votes in favor of Biden.
"We think this is good news," the individual said. "If there's fire where there's smoke, it'll come out during the recount."
Roughly 20,500 votes currently separate Biden and Trump in Wisconsin. The two Trump campaign officials who spoke with the Washington Examiner say they believe there are enough irregularities to potentially flip the state back into the president's column and dramatically change the race's outcome.
On Nov. 6, the Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called for a comprehensive review of the state's elections processes, citing allegations of potential fraud and violations of local regulations.
"With concerns surfacing about mail-in ballot dumps and voter fraud, Wisconsin citizens deserve to know their vote counted," Vos said in a statement. "There should be no question as to whether the vote was fair and legitimate, and there must be absolute certainty that the impending recount finds any and all irregularities."
The Trump campaign has said it plans to move forward with a formal demand of an initial canvass of the state, a process short of a recount that certifies the results of an election and inspect ballots for various discrepancies or errors.
“There were some serious irregularities on election day that we are looking into. We’ve already announced that we're going to seek a statewide recount in Wisconsin, and we plan to do so,” Trump deputy campaign manager Justin Clark said. “We expect that the canvass, the initial canvass will be done Monday or Tuesday. And then that process will begin.”
Recounts rarely result in the overturning of tens of thousands of ballots as the Trump campaign hopes to see in Wisconsin. Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican and informal adviser to the Trump campaign, said on Wednesday that he remains doubtful the president could end up carrying the state.
"After recount in 2011 race for WI Supreme Court, there was a swing of 300 votes," he tweeted on Nov. 4. "After recount in 2016 Presidential race in WI, @realDonaldTrump numbers went up by 131."
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We need the win, then we can focus on the who,where ,whens and hows.
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Trump Campaign Files Suit in Arizona Claiming Election Day In-Person Ballots Were Rejected
'I believe my vote for Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence was not counted due to this action,' one voter cited in the lawsuit wrote.
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Trump Campaign Files Suit in Arizona Claiming Election Day In-Person Ballots Were Rejected
By Jack Davis
Published November 8, 2020 at 12:25pm
President Donald Trump’s campaign is alleging that some Arizona voters who voted in person on Election Day had their ballots rejected.
The campaign, the Republican National Committee and the Arizona Republican Party filed a lawsuit Saturday claiming misconduct on the part of Maricopa County and its election workers.
The lawsuit said that voters who had issues with their ballots when they submitted them would end up having their votes wiped out because elections workers gave them the wrong instructions.
This matters, the suit said, because “the adjudication and tabulation of these ballots will prove determinative of the outcome of the election for President of the United States in Arizona and/or other contested offices in Maricopa County.”
Arizona was among the states where the Trump campaign has been disputing the results of the presidential election.
On Saturday, multiple media organizations called Democratic candidate Joe Biden the winner of the content. However, Trump has not yet conceded and has multiple legal challenges pending in several states.
The lawsuit said some Arizona voters were effectively disenfranchised by their treatment at the polls, which took place after they put their ballots in machines for scanning.
“Numerous voters were alerted by these devices to a facial irregularity in their ballot—frequently an ostensible ‘overvote’—but were induced by poll workers to override the tabulator’s rejection of the ballot in the good faith belief that their vote would be duly registered and tabulated. In actuality, overriding the electronic tabulator’s alert automatically disqualifies the putative ‘overvotes’ without additional review or adjudication,” the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit stated that Maricopa County’s actions were in contravention of state law.
“Arizona law requires that putative overvotes be subjected to further review in an effort to discern the actual intent of the voter. While this safeguard was afforded to putative overvotes cast on early ballots and on Election Day ballots that poll workers properly segregated in a separate repository, potentially thousands of voters across Maricopa County have been disenfranchised by systematic improper tabulator overrides,” the lawsuit stated.
“Poll workers struggled to operate the new voting machines in Maricopa County, and improperly pressed and told voters to press a green button to override significant errors,” said Matt Morgan, Trump 2020 campaign general counsel, according to Fox News. “The result is that the voting machines disregarded votes cast by voters in person on Election Day in Maricopa County.”
The lawsuit included an affidavit from voter Mia Barcello, who said she voted in Anthem, Arizona. She said that the ballot was rejected twice.
“I was then instructed that I should depress the green ‘Cast’ button to override the problem. The pollworkers asked if this was okay with me and did not explain to me that I needed to correct something on my ballot in order to avoid voting for two candidates,” she wrote.
“I believe my vote for Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence was not counted due to this action,” she wrote.
The lawsuit also included a statement from Colin T. Willoughby, who was an observer at a Phoenix polling place.
In his statement, he said there were roughly 80 instances when poll workers provided what were essentially useless explanations to voters concerning similar problems to what Barcelllo expressed.
He said that in one case, the poll workers, and not the voter, pushed the green button, leaving the voter upset.
“The pollworker told this voter nothing was wrong,” Willoughby said in his statement. “The voter was not satisfied by this assurance and left.”
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Federal Investigators Arrive in Michigan After Viral Video Seems To Reveal Alleged Fraud
After a bombshell investigative video out of Michigan seemingly exposed organized voter fraud, it appears the cavalry has finally arrived.
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COMMENTARYFederal Investigators Arrive in Michigan After Voter Fraud Allegation Video Goes Viral
Boom: Federal Investigators Arrive in Michigan, Voter Fraud in Crosshairs
clip of Project Veritas video on site 2:24 min
By Jared Harris
Published November 5, 2020 at 5:25pm
As the chaos of the 2020 election drags well beyond Election Day itself, voter fraud is quickly becoming the biggest issue in the few remaining contested states.
Now, after a bombshell investigative video out of Michigan may have exposed alleged organized voter fraud, it appears the cavalry has finally arrived.
According to Michigan’s 9&10 News, federal investigators arrived in the state on Thursday.
Sent by the United States Postal Service to a Traverse City post office, the inspectors will be looking into alleged voter fraud exposed by a Project Veritas video.
The bombshell video shows Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe talking with a USPS whistleblower in Michigan who claims to have witnessed organized voter fraud.
According to the whistleblower, a supervisor advised mail carriers to fraudulently backdate and postmark ballots to Nov. 3 to fool election officials into counting them.
Watch the insider explaining the alleged scheme to O’Keefe below.
The video soon went viral, and was spread across Twitter, Facebook, and other sites.
Word soon reached the Office of the Inspector General, who confirmed to Project Veritas that the allegation was being investigated.
According to 9&10 News, the state of Michigan required ballots to be received no later than 8 p.m. on Nov. 3, and ballots received later, regardless of the postmark, will not be counted.
Even so, this investigation is good news for every American who wants free, open and fair elections.
The alleged scheme to fraudulently backdate ballots is only one of the issues to come out of the crucial Michigan election. Earlier this week, it was discovered that an issue with election programs tallied only two votes for a Republican candidate, despite many more supporters in the area.
It’s thought that 33 other counties in the state could be affected by the same issue.
Regardless of what these federal investigators discover, it’s clear that Michigan’s elections were far from perfect.