Trump campaign jettisons major parts of its legal challenge against Pennsylvania's election results

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

President Trump’s campaign on Sunday scrapped a major part of its federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania. Trump’s attorneys filed a revised version of the lawsuit, removing allegations that election officials violated the Trump campaign’s constitutional rights by limiting the ability of their observers to watch votes being counted.

Trump and Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal attorney, have said repeatedly that more than 600,000 votes in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh should be invalidated because of this issue. Trump’s pared-down lawsuit now focuses on allegations that Republicans were illegally disadvantaged because some Democratic-leaning counties allowed voters to fix errors on their mail ballots. Counties have said this affected only a small number of votes.

Cliff Levine, an attorney representing the Democratic Party in the case, said on Sunday evening that Trump’s move meant his lawsuit could not possibly change the result. “Now you’re only talking about a handful of ballots,” said Levine. “They would have absolutely no impact on the total count or on Joe Biden’s win over Donald Trump.” Kathy Boockvar, Pennsylvania’s Democratic secretary of state, submitted a court filing in response to the Trump campaign’s actions reiterating her request for the judge to dismiss the lawsuit.

The shift comes amid a string of losses in the Trump campaign’s post-election legal effort, which claimed without evidence that voter fraud, irregularities and rule-breaking led to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Taken together, the flurry of post-election litigation has affirmed the integrity of the election: many of the complaints have been tossed, and not a single vote has been invalidated.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lawsuit-pennsylvania/2020/11/15/4aab8048-279b-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html

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[COL Mustard]

1. I Wonder How Many TVs He Broke Tonight?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. It's all a projection cover story for the PA election he rigged in 2016, isn't it?

Make your lies big, and cover them with bigger lies, and repeat them daily.

Better pay close attention and take notes. I think he'll be revealing methodology, techniques, and magnitude.

[Cha]

3. Popcorn Indeed, BRDS! TY

Cliff Levine, an attorney representing t"he Democratic Party in the case, said on Sunday evening that Trump’s move meant his lawsuit could not possibly change the result."

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Biden is now just over 1% ahead (69K votes)

https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/

[Cha]

5. TY! PAs Like Biden Better!!! This is my fave Reaction!

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Wow!

And I know she was not alone!!!

[Cha]

19. Not alone.. we were right there with her.

I posted it on my FB today.. to show my family how much I related to the 86 year old Grandma in PA.

[Aussie105]

7. There never was a legal challenge.

It was a game of bluff.

And the judges aren't playing the game. 'Put up or shut up' is a common response.

[ancianita]

8. I don't know about the other states he sued, but it looked to me that PA's was such a well-filmed

vote count process -- which you live streamed here, as well, thanks very much -- that the public and courts could not possibly give credence to Trump's legal team.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I still have the stream running on my little convertible laptop that sits nearby

They have been processing small batches of provisional ballots and loading the results at some point both for the local election tally and for the state.

The stream continues to run 24/7. The vast majority of the ballots are done but they are still working sporadically on batches of provisionals and any mail-ins that had been set aside for some issue, plus they were tallying the military/overseas ballots that had to be in by November 12, so they were coming in after November 3rd..

[ancianita]

10. See, that right there is important for the public to know.

It's interesting that news reports of the court goings-on don't mention this, don't you think?

It's the pressure of the PA public's witness that is the undoing of the bs fights by the scoundrel side of election politics. The more light on the truth of things, the more they walk out.

At some point they'll have to stop believing their own hype and admit to their politics of spite.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Whenever I have popped over to the stream

I have seen some of the "observers" there monitoring what is going on. In fact, a couple days ago, the elections staff set up a couple of tables with monitors for them to look at/use and although I'm not sure what they were viewing, I expect they may have been screen-sharing with some of the workers who were actually reviewing info within the state's data system and/or were displaying a camera closeup view of the ballots as they were being handled to check for signatures, etc., on the outer envelopes.

Took a few screenshots of that -

[ancianita]

15. Cool. This whole level of proof is something that media should report to the nation.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. I actually think except for the loon sites like Newsmax, Breitbart, & OANN

the rest of the world has pretty much moved on with the assumption that Biden's election is a done deal and this other crap is just ratings fodder for them. IMHO, they need to start ignoring the tweets and the noise and move on to other things that need to be discussed like a re-up of the CARES funding and some kind of new C.R. for the federal government, because if nothing is passed by December 11, the federal government will shut down.

[ancianita]

18. True.

The fact that the rest of the country has moved on still doesn't mean that media shouldn't care to report that these kinds of records are important for the public record. Not take up any news cycles, simply be come kind of acknowledgement report in the NYT, for instance.

Obviously, Senate Republican obstruction of public help is the disgrace of the nation. And them.

[DallasNE]

11. What Pennsylvania Did Was Standard Practice

If not the actual law regarding errors on mail in ballots. The practice has always been to declare those as provisional ballots and then notify the voter they have until X to come in and correct the error in order for the ballot to be counted.

Now I can't say one way or the other on whether some of the voter suppression law changes caused those ballots to now be rejected. That would be unfortunate. The idea is to qualify as many ballots as possible. Often it is a signatures don't match issue. An example, Rose M. Johnson gets married and changes her name to Rose M. Miller. State law requires the voter to use maiden name for middle name so the voter signs it Rose J. Miller rather than Rose M. Miller. Used to have to deal with that all of the time.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. That was part of the commentary by state officials about this frivolous crap

and the acknowledgement by the campaign that none of their "observers" had actually had any "elections training" so they were completely clueless and were flagging things that were handled appropriately in the normal/standard way by elections workers nationwide, yet were declared "fraud" by a bunch of incompetents.

One of the things they had jumped up and down about was that some people did not fill out their address under their signature in the voter declaration section on the back of the outer envelope. However literally diagonally across from that section is another section with the voter's name and address, pre-printed on the envelope, AND that pre-printed info included both a barcode AND QR code to associate the ballot to a real voter so that the submission of the vote could be registered and would flag someone if they tried to vote again by a different method. The judge basically laughed them out of the courtroom.

[grantcart]

13. Reuters just filed a story quoting Trump stating he would soon be filing

Big cases attacking the constitutionality of the 2020 election

[ancianita]

14. Nice attempt to cover his own unconstitutionality in both word and deeds of his underlings.

As if he couldn't possibly have any any clue what DeJoy and the rest were up to!

[Cha]

20. he's Full of SHITE

[Happy Hoosier]

22. Trump is ALWAYS making promises like that.

Remember when his investigators were finding "unbelievable" things in Hawaii? Remember when Melanoma was going to address the fact that violated immigration law? He's always threatening to sue and always "unbelievable" evidence. He's a liar.

And this "kraken?" No serious lawyer says "release the Kraken." If they add actual damning evidence, this would already be in court, and they would release it. It's theater for the rubes to keep the money flowing in.

[Sherman A1]

21. And there ya go........

Bye Don.....