Eastman The Mathematician: MAGA Lawyer Advised Lawmaker To Make Up Formula To Throw Out Biden Votes

[Nevilledog]

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Eastman went on to articulate a series of claims that the legislators could make to do just that: why not just “pro-rate” the vote totals, ignoring a subset of mail-in ballots?

“For example, depending on how many ballots were counted that were received after the statutory deadline (say 10,000 for example’s purpose), those 10,000 votes need to be discarded, and you can take the absentee ballot ratio for each candidate in the counties were late-received ballots were illegally counted and deduct the pro-rated amount from each candidate’s total,” Eastman wrote.

In an emailed statement to TPM Wednesday, Diamond put distance between himself and Eastman’s ideas, writing, “at no time did I consider presuming any alternative count of the popular vote in Pennsylvania.”

In the Dec. 4 exchange, Eastman floated another option that had to do with verification: Why not just apply the “historical rejection rate” for ballots and then “discount each candidates’ totals by a prorated amount based on the absentee percentage those candidates otherwise received.”

That, Eastman pointed out, would leave Trump with a lead in the state, therefore “bolster[ing] the argument for the Legislature adopting a slate of Trump electors — perfectly within your authority to do anyway, but now bolstered by the untainted popular vote.”
“That would help provide some cover,” he added.

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[moondust]

1. Are these legal clowns

that fabricated and promoted all the election fraud bullshit still licensed to practice law? Ghouliani had his law license suspended a year ago but what about the others?

[Bev54]

2. Most lawyers are not good at math, that is why they go into law instead of accounting.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Give him trial by combat!

Then lock him up.

[Chainfire]

4. Cheating and lying is what Republicans do best; it is their superpower.