USA 2020 Elections: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 09:53:41 PST 2020


https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-files-emergency-injunction-michigan-demands-recount-over-fraud-malfunctioning

The Trump campaign has requested an emergency injunction in a federal
lawsuit aimed at preventing the State of Michigan from certifying the
results of last week's election until election officials can certify
that only legally cast, on time, and legally observed ballots are
included in the count. The campaign is alleging several types of
fraud, misconduct, and invalidated ballots based on a number of
reasons - including 'malfunctioning' vote counting machines made by
Dominion Voting Systems.

The Tuesday night filing in the US District Court for the Western
District of Michigan alleges, among other things, that officials
prevented GOP challengers from observing the count, scanned "batches
of the same ballots multiple times," illegally accepted and pre-dated
late ballots, including from unmonitored drop boxes, and that election
workers illegally duplicated ballots," according to a statement from
the campaign. The lawsuit requeusts that the court toss all ballots
not observed by a GOP election challenger who has been "allowed to
meaningfully observe the process and the handling and counting of the
ballot."
Absentee ballot removed for counting at TCF Center in Detroit, Nov. 4
2020 (photo: Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press)

The complaint includes "more than one hundred credentialed election
challengers" who have provided "sworn affidavits" that they were
prevented from reviewing the ballot count, or validate the legitimacy
of absentee ballots. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is
accused in the suit of failing to follow state election code, which
allowed "fraud and incompetence to corrupt the conduct of the 2020
general election."

GOP challengers allegedly blocked and intimidated:

    Many challengers testified that their ability to view the
handling, processing, and  counting of ballots was physically and
intentionally blocked by election officials.

    At least three challengers said they were physically pushed away
from counting tables by election officials to a distance that was too
far to observe the counting.

    Republican challengers who left the TCF Center were not allowed to
return, while Democrats were, resulting in "many more Democratic
challengers allowed to observe the processing and counting of absent
voter ballots."

    Many challengers testified that they were intimidated, threatened,
and harassed by election officials during the ballot processing and
counting process.

GOP election challengers demand to be let into the TCF Center in
Detroit on Wednesday, Nov 4 2020

For reference, here's a video of people cheering as GOP poll watchers
were thrown out of the TCF Center in Detroit as absentee ballots were
counted.

    Videos are leaking from inside TCF Center in Detroit showing them
cheer as GOP poll watchers are being thrown out as absentee ballot
counting is happening, the person filming this was made to delete it,
democrat watcher outnumber republican by 3/1, corruption at the
highest level pic.twitter.com/WqRPsAG6BS
    — Don’t stop fighting 🇺🇸 ✊💪✌️ (@crystal78243104) November 4, 2020

Batches of ballots run through multiple times:

Multiple GOP challengers attested that "batches of ballots were
repeatedly run through the vote tabulation machines," with one
challenger saying she observed "a stack of about fifty ballots being
fed multiple times into a ballot scanner counting machine." Another
challenger claims they "observed a station where election workers were
working on scanned ballots that had issues that needed to be manually
corrected," adding "I believe some of these workers were changing
votes that had been cast for Donald Trump and other Republican
candidates."

When challengers did bring up issues with ballots, they were "ignored
and disregarded," according to the complaint, with one claiming that
"ballots with votes for Trump were separated from other ballots," and
that when they raised challenges over ballot numbers which didn't
match their envelopes, they were "disregarded and ignored by election
officials," and the "ballots were processed and counted."

The filing also claims that ballots which could not be read by a
machine were unlawfully duplicated out of the view of challengers, and
weren't conducted by a bipartisan pair of election inspectors.

Faulty tabulation software:

The suit notes that in Antrim County, Michigan, voting machines
manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems "were at fault" when they
erroneously gave over 6,000 Trump votes to former Vice President Joe
Biden. The 'error' - potentially affecting the same machines used in
Wayne County - was blamed by Secretary of State Benson on a county
clerk who failed to update certain "media drives."

Also noted were Dominion machine errors in Oakland County Michigan,
which resulted in a Democrat being wrongly declared the winner of a
commissioner's race by 104 votes - only to have their seat flip back
to the rightful Republican candidate after the error was caught.

"These vote tabulator failures are a mechanical malfunction that,
under MCL 168.831-168.839, requires a "special election" in the
precincts affected," reads the filing.

Back-dated absentee ballots:

The filing also alleges backdating of ballots, after attorney and GOP
challenger Jessica Connarn says she was told by a poll worker told her
they were "being told to change the date on ballots to reflect that
the ballots were received on an earlier date."

Connarn has provided a photograph of a note handed to her by the poll
worker as evidence they were instructed to change the date so that
absentee ballots received after 8:00 p.m. on Election Day would be
counted.
Poll workers count absentee ballots for the city of Detroit at the TCF
Center in downtown Detroit on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. (Photo: Ryan
Garza, Detroit Free Press)

The Trump campaign also says that ballots were deposited in remote,
unattended drop boxes which are "essentially equivalent to a polling
place where a person can deposit a ballot," but "there is no
validation that the individual deposing a ballot in the box is an
individual who is qualified to cast a vote or to lawfully deliver a
ballot cast by a lawful voter." The filing says that according to
Michigan law, a remote ballot drop box "must use video monitoring of
that drop box to ensure effective monitoring..."

Now we wait to see if over 100 affidavits and Trump Campaign attorney
Thor Hearne are able to persuade a Michigan judge to halt certifying
Joe Biden winner the state.

Meanwhile in Philadelphia...

    BREAKING: list of Philadelphia Republican poll watchers put on
“no-entry” list

    From Philly Election Canvas: even @CLewandowski_ was put on it
pic.twitter.com/nO6QZ8Y0va
    — ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) November 10, 2020


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