“We have filed nearly a dozen lawsuits over signature matching and cure processes this cycle. As the New York Times reported … ‘in a series of lawsuits this year, judges have ruled almost uniformly that under the Constitution, due process requires …
“that voters be notified of a problem and have the chance to fix signatures that are being used to certify their ballots.’” nytimes.com/interactive/20…
“The nationwide attacks on voting rights are no accident; they are a coordinated, well-funded effort by Republicans to suppress voters in places where they're losing ground.
“[I]t is becoming clear that the Trump administration and the Republican Party are not just looking at but heavily investing in the largely nonexistent problem of voter fraud.’” esquire.com/news-politics/…
“Another article this week also described how the Trump campaign is operationalizing its voter suppression plan on a hyperlocal level.” apnews.com/article/virus-…
“’Through threatening letters, lawsuits, viral videos and presidential misinformation, the campaign and its GOP allies are going to new lengths to contest election procedures county-by-county across battleground states.’”
Lawyers like @marceelias are doing everything they can to ensure a free and fair election. It’s up to us to vote in such massive numbers that the Republicans realize their litigation strategy can’t change the outcome of the election. #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
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The Founders were men of property and eighteenth-century views. In his book,’The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution,’ from 2016, Michael J. Klarman, a professor at Harvard Law School, explains …
“that they ‘had interests, prejudices, and moral blind spots. They could not foresee the future, and they made mistakes.’ Largely drawn from the landed class, they had little interest in empowering the common man, and no interest at all in empowering women and Black people.
“But, unlike many latter-day ‘constitutionalists,’ they were aware of their own shortcomings. Although they tussled long and hard over the system they created, they didn’t consider it a perfect solution …
“Using data from earlier in the election campaign, Professor Kim estimated that at least 20% of all suspicious activity (activity that doesn’t appear to come from a real individual) …
“could be directly traced to Russian groups that US intelligence agencies have confirmed are engaged in misinformation.
“It’s impossible to be certain exactly how active they are in Wisconsin, but Kim observes that Wisconsin is one of the most targeted states for this type of content.
An excellent rundown of federal court cases involving allegations of vote by mail fraud by Buzzfeed News. buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
“In Montana, US District Judge Dana Christensen dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Trump campaign, RNC, and state Republicans challenging Gov. Steve Bullock’s decision to allow counties to carry out the November election by mail-in ballots.
“Christensen noted that at a hearing in the case, lawyers for the campaign and Republican challengers ‘were compelled to concede that they cannot point to a single instance of voter fraud in Montana in any election during the last 20 years.’
“On the campaign trail and online, President Donald Trump is pushing debunked and unsupported claims that mail-in voting leads to widespread fraud.
“But in court, far from the bluster of his rallies and Twitter rants, a growing number of judges have examined the evidence he’s presented to back those claims and found it unconvincing.
“[I]n the federal court cases brought by Trump’s campaign challenging statewide policies around mail-in voting in Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, …
“Money, of course, does not guarantee victory. Mr. O’Rourke lost his race, and Mr. Graham still has a good chance of winning this one. Two of the three most prominent election forecasters —
“Inside Elections and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia — say he is slightly favored to win, while the third, the Cook Political Report, calls the race a tossup.
“But Mr. Harrison’s enormous fund-raising total, a majority of which came from out-of-state donors, speaks to the intense Democratic energy nationwide that has enabled him to run a competitive race in what would, in a normal year, have been a safe Republican state.