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7 Nov, 4 tweets, 4 min read
The Trump campaign announced a new lawsuit in Maricopa Cty, AZ, and it's a variation on the prev. debunked "Sharpiegate" — it's alleging Trump voters may have had their ballots rejected because poll workers manually overrode error messages cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/p… ImageImage
Here's more on "Sharpiegate" from our expert debunkers @JaneLytv and @CraigSilverman: buzzfeednews.com/article/janely… Arizona officials have confirmed that ballots filled out with a Sharpie will be counted
@JaneLytv @CraigSilverman Another Sharpie-related lawsuit was filed in Maricopa County a few days ago, but the plaintiffs already voluntarily withdrew it: democracydocket.com/wp-content/upl… Image
@JaneLytv @CraigSilverman The Trump campaign's complaint doesn't say that the case is about how Maricopa County is dealing with ballots filled out using Sharpies, but the declarations they've filed from voters are all about Sharpies ImageImageImageImage

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7 Nov
Trump released a statement earlier saying, "Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court."

Legal efforts by Trump's campaign and state GOPers so far have failed to meaningfully change results, or been tossed outright. Here's where things stand:
- Judges have been unimpressed so far with the evidence that Trump/state Republicans have presented as proof that things were amiss at polls or counting sites: 
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
- There is a case pending before SCOTUS about PA. But that only affects mail-in ballots that arrived after Nov. 3 through Nov. 6, and the PA Sec. of State has said they do not expect the number of ballots at issue to be enough to change the results: 
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
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6 Nov
New: PA Republicans filed an emergency application asking SCOTUS to order PA to segregate post-Election Day absentee ballots. The SoS already directed counties to do this, but Rs say they still want SCOTUS to order it (HT @joshgerstein for the doc) beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2040… ImageImage
PA Rs don't present evidence that any county is failing to segregate the post-Nov. 3 absentee ballots at issue, but they argue "in the fast-paced and chaotic pace of postelection events in Pennsylvania" they haven't gotten affirmative confirmation that all counties are doing it Image
New: Justice Alito has entered an order that PA counties must comply with PA SoS's directive to segregate absentee ballots that arrived post-Election Day. This is pending SCOTUS considering PA GOP's emergency request earlier today for a specific court order re: ballot segregation ImageImage
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6 Nov
In the latest case filed by Republicans in Nevada (challenging use of computer software to check signatures and alleging lack of public access to observe counting), the judge has set a hearing for today at 2pm PST/5pm EST

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Here's the NV SoS oppo to Rs' motion to block the use of computer software to verify signatures and ensure observer access: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7326…
They say:
1) The voter plaintiff who claimed someone else cast her mail-in ballot was given a chance to fix it and declined Image
2) The purported Trump campaign observer also claimed to be a member of the media (the filing notes he's a polit. strategist and Fox News contrib), and those come with different rights re: access to counting. But regardless, they say no evid. counting happened without observation Image
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6 Nov
Here is where things stand today on the pending Trump/GOP legal challenges:
- Nevada Rs (Trump campaign not a party) filed in federal court last night challenging computer software to verify signatures and claiming media wasn't allowed to observe counting assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7325… Image
- The new NV case repeats a Trump campaign allegation from yest. of people casting ballots who weren't eligible to vote in the state, but note the case isn't asking to invalidate ballots — at most, they're asking for absentee ballots to be verified by people and not a computer Image
- The Commonwealth Court of PA is holding arguments right now (no remote access, unfortunately) in PA Republicans' case seeking to block counties from allowing absentee voters with deficient ballots to cast provisional ballots to "cure" votes  Image
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5 Nov
There's an 11:30am ET hearing in the Trump campaign's case in Michigan alleging the state isn't complying with rules about election inspector access to absentee ballot counting and election challenger video access to ballot boxes. It will be streamed here: youtube.com/channel/UCIUqx…
Here's the Trump campaign's emergency motion, which seeks to halt counting in Michigan until an election inspector from each party is present and video of ballot boxes is available to challengers assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7297…

Campaign presented one challenger who claimed exclusion
The hearing in the Trump campaign's MI case is delayed to noon. Meanwhile, here's the SoS's response: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7317…

"Even a cursory review of Plaintiffs’ filings demonstrates that their vague legal claims and nonexistent facts hold no water and should be dismissed."
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5 Nov
New: In one of the Trump campaign's cases, the Commonwealth Court of PA issued an order directing the local court in Philadelphia to enter an order requiring all observers and candidate reps be allowed to observe ballot counting w/in 6 feet + other COVID measures
The Trump campaign had appealed after a Philadelphia judge denied (see attached) the campaign's request for "closer observation" of counting, finding election officials were following the law.

This does not stop the counting of ballots in Philadelphia.
The Trump campaign had also asked the Commonwealth Court to order Philly election officials to segregate/preserve ballots that were already canvassed so they could check to make sure they complied with election law, but the court's order today doesn't address that
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