Exhibit J: Military ballots were "very clean." Many of the ballots "were for Biden. Many batches went 100% for Biden." Also, the watermark on three of the ballots didn't look right. "I believe the military ballots are highly suspicious of fraud."
[We're more than halfway there!]
Exhibit K: A witness says some workers did "fast counting" of ballots - instead of having each one verified by two people. Ballot boxes were left unattended. Some damaged ballots were "duplicated," but she wasn't allowed to ask what that meant. (It's a normal thing.)
Exhibit L: A witness says counters added an extra 0 to Biden's tally in one batch, but then noticed the mistake and fixed it. Ballots marked for Trump were placed in the Biden pile. He therefore believes "there was widespread fraud favoring Joseph Biden."
Exhibit M: A witness, whose identity is unknown, alleges that Dominion voting software was used to cheat on elections in Venezuela and this is what is happening in the U.S. There's only one paragraph on the U.S. election and it contains obvious factual errors and no specifics.
Exhibit N: A witness says big increases in Democratic turnout are suspicious. Many more people voted for Democrats this year than in previous elections in Georgia that Democrats did not win. Also, Benford's Law and this chart.
Exhibit O: A witness says things were pretty disorganized during the recount, "many of the absentee ballots were perfectly filled out," and Twyla was a very rude.
Exhibit P: A witness says many ballots didn't have creases and "appeared to be pre-printed." (Georgia uses touchscreen voting that produces printed paper ballots.) "Hundreds of ballots at a time were counted for Biden only." Also, there was a suspicious table that said "Welcome."
Exhibit Q: A witness says some boxes of ballots were cast "100% for Biden." The ballots "appeared to be perfectly filled out as if they were pre-printed." There's a spreadsheet. (Again, Georgia voting machines produce machine-printed, marked paper ballots.)
Exhibit R: Ballots to be recounted "looked as though they had just come from a fresh stack" and didn't appear to have been folded. The black circles were neat. The majority contained "suspicious black perfectly bubbled markings for Biden."
Finally, Exhibit S: A security expert finds it suspicious that so many people voted, after mistaking Minnesota for Michigan. (A dead giveaway is that the Detroit-area places where he found suspiciously high voter turnout are nowhere near Detroit.)
There it is. That's the evidence of fraud that was submitted to a federal court in Georgia. When you pile it all up, it falls far short of what the president and his lawyers and his supporters and his supporters' lawyers have been claiming on television.
A federal judge has now denied Trump ally L. Lin Wood's request for a temporary restraining order prohibiting Georgia from certifying its election results (which already happened anyway).
(The judge was appointed by President Trump.)
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If you had instead won the case, you would have already won and wouldn't need to appeal, which is the usual strategy in litigation.
Also, if your goal is to tee up a case for appellate review, you don't want to lose like this.
You don't want to have to take up a case that you lost in part because it was incompetently litigated. And you don't want to take up a case you lost for Every Possible Reason.
The judge observes that the Trump campaign is "trying to mix-and-match claims to bypass contrary precedent."
The court rules that both the Trump campaign and its two attempted-voter plaintiffs lack standing to bring the case.
The voter-plaintiffs lack standing because although they were denied the right to vote (because their ballots were invalid), they sued other counties and the state that did not invalidate their votes, not the counties that did.
Meanwhile, some Pennsylvania Republicans led by Rep. @MikeKellyPA are asking a state court to declare that the state's entire vote-by-mail system, violates the state constitution and that millions of votes cast this year must now be invalidated.
The lawsuit is marked as having been filed at 4 a.m.
The lawsuit is a challenge to Act 77, which it says is "another illegal attempt to override the limitations on absentee voting" in the state constitution. The act was approved more than a year ago; the lawsuit doesn't say why they waited until after this election to challenge it.
And the court says that even if Wood could bring this lawsuit (which he can't) and if he hadn't waited too long (which he did), he'd also lose on the merits.
The judge (a Trump appointee), goes out of his way to shoot down Wood's theory of an Equal Protection violation, which is very similar to the arguments Trump's campaign has made in its own lawsuit in Pennsylvania.
The judge said claims that lots of invalid ballots were counted in Georgia is "not supported by the evidence at this stage." The rejection rate for absentee ballots in Georgia in 2020 was the same as it was two years ago.
Trump's lawyers said the other day that the press refuses to look at all the evidence the president and his allies have put forward of a massive scheme to rig the election.
I did.
Georgia edition, from the case filed by Trump ally L. Lin Wood ->
Exhibit A: A witness declares she was "not close enough to see much of anything" during Georgia's recount.
Exhibit B: A witness declares that people conducting the recount were not great at math. Also, sometimes ballots were left unattended on a table and drinks also were left on those tables.
President Trump's lawyers have filed a new motion in Pennsylvania making clear that they only want to block the state from certifying the results of the presidential election, which they claim was fraudulent. It can certify the other races, decided on the same ballots, they say.
Marks v. Stinson has become the hydroxychloroquine of the president's post-election litigation.
Interesting concession in Trump's filing: If PA certifies its electors by Dec. 8, its certification "shall be conclusive" when Congress meets to count electoral votes. (That's in the statute, but you'd think they'd want some wiggle room here.)