They're just about* to release the kraken though which will ultimately result in the one mega-court case to rule them all and in the darkness bind them... I imagine.BREAKING: Plaintiffs DISMISS Wisconsin lawsuit claiming election officials included illegal results in certain counties and seeking to to stop the certification of election results from these counties.
Trump and allies are now 1-24 in court.
I'm guessing it was to force the recount in Georgia (which is giving essentially the same result, of course). Unless that was triggered automatically by the small margin?What's the one out of the 24 that they've won?
I'm guessing it was to force the recount in Georgia (which is giving essentially the same result, of course). Unless that was triggered automatically by the small margin?
No it was to do with moving their observers a little bit closer in, maybe, Michigan I think. A very minor victory that made no real difference to anyone or anything.
Very true. And the Rs are finding this out... or do they just not care? I don't get this Sydney Powell woman, apparently a real lawyer, going on telly swearing blind that she mountains of incontrovertible evidence that the voting machines were made by George Soros in China and used to fix Venezuelan elections and that the head of the FBI (probably the whole FBI) is involved in a massive wide-ranging Democrat conspiracy which, when busted, which she is gonna do REALLY REALLY SOON honest, is gonna reveal that Trump won the election by millions of votes and send whole upper echelons of the Democrat party to jail. I mean it's fucking loony tunes crazy and it's firing up the weirder edges of the base no doubt - but what's gonna happen when she doesn't produce this evidence? What's the plan here apart from making people excited for a few days... and then very disappointed?
Although I've heard conflicting reports. I've also read they won a lawsuit in Pennsylvania. Basically there are loads of different categories of votes - some were in person, some were sent in by mail and received by election day, some were sent by election day but received up to three days later.the GA recount isn't lawsuit related. I think the sec. of state said they'd do it just to shut everyone up. apparently they found one instance where 2,600 votes from a county hadn't been uploaded, but it was an oversight, Biden probably got at least half of them anyway, and has no impact on his 14k vote lead.
yeah, GOP sued to move observers from 10 feet to six feet. whatever.
Pennsylvania supreme court dealst Trump campaign another defeat.
Philadelphia election officials did not improperly block Donald Trump’s campaign from observing the counting of mail-in ballots, the Pennsylvania supreme court ruled 5-2 on Tuesday, a major blow to the president’s already flailing legal efforts.
The decision is significant because one of the Trump campaign’s loudest claims since the election has been that they were improperly blocked from observing the counting of ballots in Philadelphia.
While campaign observers were always allowed to observe, the campaign alleged they were being kept too far from the counting - about 15-18 feet - to make any meaningful observation. It secured a court order in the days after election day requiring Philadelphia officials to let observers within 6 feet.
But the Pennsylvania supreme court reversed that decision on Tuesday, noting that Pennsylvania law gives Philadelphia election officials wide discretion to decide the rules around observers.
“The Board did not act contrary to law in fashioning its regulations governing the positioning of candidate representatives during the pre-canvassing and canvassing process, as the Election Code does not specify minimum distance parameters for the location of such representatives,” Justice Barbara Todd, a Democrat, wrote for the five justice majority.
“We find the Board’s regulations as applied herein were reasonable in that they allowed candidate representatives to observe the Board conducting its activities as prescribed under the Election Code.”
Even if there is some kind of procedural or technical problem with some aspect of the election, it surely can't be that the remedy is to throw out votes that were made in good faith and according to the law (at the time they voted) by legally registered voters.Even the two Republican justices who dissented from the majority opinion disagreed with the idea, advanced by the Trump campaign, that legitimate votes should be rejected because of improper observation practices.
“Short of demonstrated fraud, the notion that presumptively valid ballots cast by the Pennsylvania electorate would be disregarded based on isolated procedural irregularities that have been redressed -- thus disenfranchising potentially thousands of voters -- is misguided,” Chief Justice Thomas Saylor wrote in his dissenting opinion.
There's some wild stuff going round in MAGA/Q land. One talking point is that the Dominion voting machines have Cuban and Chinese connections. VERY SUSPICIOUS.
Dang, when will these perfidious Cubans quid meddling with America?!There's some wild stuff going round in MAGA/Q land. One talking point is that the Dominion voting machines have Cuban and Chinese connections. VERY SUSPICIOUS.
I think it was created to rig Venezuelan elections... that was basically like a trial run I suppose.Also a nefarious Venezuela connection, right?
The four-member board of canvassers in Wayne County, which includes Detroit, deadlocked along partisan lines on Tuesday over certifying the election results. Joe Biden carried the county by nearly 323,000 votes. The decision essentially leaves certification up to the Michigan state board of canvassers, according to the Washington Post. The board is split along partisan lines and must approve election results with at least a 3-1 vote, according to Bridge Michigan.
There’s some concern that if the board doesn’t act to certify the results, the Michigan state legislature could step in and appoint its own electors. Michigan Republican leaders in the state legislature have downplayed those concerns.
A Republican member of the board of canvassers said on Tuesday she would be willing to certify results in parts of the county other than Detroit, which many saw to be an overtly partisan and racist move. Detroit is more than 78% Black.