Generally, the replies to this headline fall into two categories:
1) Why was the Trump campaign challenging 69 ballots in Bucks County, Pa.?
2) "Nice."
Let's explain how the ballot challenge broke down to that number.
From today's ruling:
This was the number of ballots originally subject to the Trump campaigns challenge, broken down by category.
A Supreme Court of Pa. ruling in a separate-but-related case took care of the first three categories.
Team Trump withdrew 4 and 6.
Leaving...
Even before it was whittled down to those 69 ballots, notice how paltry the Trump campaign's actual challenge was when compared to POTUS-elect Joe Biden's certified margin of victory: 80,555.
Of course, Pa. courts are quite different than the Keystone State's Wyndham Inns.
“Importantly, the Court must point out that there are absolutely no allegations of any fraud, impropriety, misconduct, or undue influence," the judge noted.
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Near the hallowed ground where thousands fought and died to turn the tide of the Civil War, Trump will enter a conference room of a Wyndham Hotel and peddle "voter fraud" lies that none of their lawyers has the courage to defend before a judge.
The court previously ruled that the proceeding for an independent court inquiry into Mayor de Blasio and the city's conduct could move ahead.
Oliver notes that the city hasn't moved forward on its appeal.
Steven Kitzinger, the city's lawyer, said that the case "remains in limbo, in purgatory" because the judge denied the motion to dismiss but didn't grant the application for the summary inquiry.
Justice Madden: "I'm having a little trouble following your argument, Mr. Kitzinger."
The Michigan Board of Canvassers meeting has begun.
Preliminary remarks by Jonathan Brater touts "unprecedented" and "inspiring" public participation during a pandemic.
"Few see or well understand the dedication that it takes to run an election," Mr. Brater observes, adding this means they usually hear from the critics—particularly the unfair one.
"Overall, we had an extremely well run and secure election," Brater notes.
Despite every baseless fraud allegation collapsing in Michigan's federal and state courts, @MIGOPChair and @GOP want to delay certification scheduled for Monday for 14 days based on claims they cannot prove before judges.
In a federal case in Michigan, the Trump campaign withdrew their claims and then lied about the reason in a court filing. lawandcrime.com/2020-election/…
"The results were accurate and complete, and it's time to move forward."
Vice-Chairman @JackSellers's remarks moving to certify Maricopa County, AZ election returns on Fri.
4-GOP
1-Dem
Unanimous approval.
WATCH how it happened.
Highlight reel in thread.
"It's time to dial back the rhetoric, conspiracies and false claims. In a free democracy, elections result in some people's candidate losing... I'm not going to violate the law or deviate from my own more compass."
— Chair @ClintLHickman (R), adding some pushed him to do that
"I have not played games with any other canvass we have voted we have voted on over the past eight years of sitting in this chair and as sitting on this board. I am not calculating or playing games today."
— Maricopa County Supervisor @Steve_Chucri (R), certifying the election
JUDGE: "In other words, Plaintiffs ask this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election."
That outcome would require "compelling legal arguments and factual proof."