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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 01:38 AM Nov 2020

Trump Election Challenges Hamstrung by Hapless Witnesses

When Team Trump’s claims of voter-fraud and ballot-tampering reach a judge, the allegations collapse in often spectacular fashion.

Will Sommer
Published Nov. 14, 2020 12:00AM ET

Donald Trump’s last-ditch campaign legal efforts have centered on witnesses who allege that they witnessed voter fraud and other suspicious activity in battleground states across the country. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has brandished stacks of papers detailing what she said were hundreds of affidavits from allegedly aggrieved voters or poll-watchers in TV appearances, and the MAGA faithful have seized on the allegations as proof that Trump secretly won the election.

But when those claims actually reach a judge, the allegations collapse in often spectacular fashion—putting one more roadblock in Trump’s attempts to wrestle the election away from President-elect Joe Biden.

The latest bruising response to Trump’s voter witnesses came Friday in a state court order from Michigan. The Trump campaign had asked Chief Judge Timothy M. Kenny to block the certification of Michigan’s votes, citing a number of witnesses who alleged seeing suspicious things happening with the ballot count, mostly at Detroit’s TCF Center.

But when Kenny actually saw the witness claims, he wasn’t impressed. In his Friday opinion, Kenny rejected the Trump campaign’s request, describing one witness affidavit as “rife with speculation and guess-work about sinister motives.”

Instead of alleging voter fraud, Kenny said, many of the accusations made by witnesses in fact described routine vote-counting procedures. Had the Republican challengers only attended an optional walk-through training of the site, according to Kenny, they would not have been so alarmed.

More:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-election-challenges-hamstrung-by-hapless-witnesses?ref=home

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Voter Fraud yankee87 Nov 2020 #1

yankee87

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1. Voter Fraud
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 08:06 AM
Nov 2020

I am going to accusations of voter fraud also, I saw lizard people voting, also I saw the little green men from Area 51. Prove me wrong!!!!! That is how absurd the trumpaneeze have become.

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