Sidney Powell's back with a new filing in Michigan. The election, she says, "is a lie." She has experts to prove it. Up first: The guy who confused Minnesota for Michigan, who clearly doesn't know how vote totals get reported.
Michigan: Results get reported in batches, after we've counted a bunch.
Powel: Aha! But you didn't say *these* results were in batches. Ergo, "289,866 ballots tabulated on November 4 must be disregarded."
Did I mention that some of Powell's witnesses now get cool codenames? Here's "Spider."
He worked on anti-aircraft systems, and with that experience he has proved that Iran AND China hacked Dominion's vote-counting machines (which aren't connected to the internet).
For what it's worth, the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion isn't "responsible for protecting the country from enemy guided missiles." It is an "entry level training unit." But that's one of the smaller misstatements so far. military.com/daily-news/202…
Powell claims she has piles of evidence from experts about statistical anomalies in the election. But it's basically a huge stack of filings from people who don't know how votes get reported, or think it's suspicious that people might vote for Trump in 2016 but not 2020.
I'm not making this up. This expert's opinion is based on the assumption that everybody who voted for Trump in 2016 must also have voted for him in 2020. (I'd say no way you ever get that into court, but people get some weird stuff into court sometimes.)
Another expert says the fact that more Democrats than Republicans requested absentee ballots is suspicious. Though, you know, the Republican president specifically encouraged his supporters not to vote absentee.
One of the expert witnesses is literally arguing that more people in the suburbs voting for Democrats is anomalous so basically they shouldn't be trusted until they're proven to be real. Not the usual approach to election challenges.
Sidney Powell told a federal judge in Georgia Sunday that her team examined a tabulating machine in Michigan and found that 1,474 votes "were changed."
She filed that report today in Michigan, and it seems that's the *total* number of votes; the discrepancy was 3 votes.
Powell's expert (again, guy who mistook Minnesota for Michigan) does suggest *all* the votes were changed. But that's pretty weird since the election night and recount totals were the same and Trump won that precinct by a ton.
In fact, this scheme was so nefarious it potentially resulted in allowing retail marijuana in Central Lake Township, after a "no" vote disappeared in a recount, thereby breaking a tie and allowing a local ballot proposition to pass.
It's maybe puzzling that a vast conspiracy of top Democrats, Detroit poll watchers, Hugo Chavez, Iran, China, the Republican Governor of Georgia and so many others would care enough to rig the outcome of a Central Lake Twp. (pop. 2,174) marijuana referendum, but here we are.
I used to correspond with an inmate who spent years litigating to prove the feds put a microchip in his butt because a DEA agent made a wisecrack that that's how they'd finally tracked him down.
That case was waaay more connected to reality than what's going on here.
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As Trump leaves Georgia, where he complained about fictional election fraud, the state weighed in on a lawsuit seeking to overturn the election. "These claims would be extraordinary if true, but they are not."
The state has filed lots of pages, but this is probably the only one it really needs. The 11th Cir. bounced a similar suit today because plaintiffs lacked standing. That decision binds the district court here.
Georgia: "There is no credible evidence to support the drastic and unprecedented remedy of substituting certified presidential election results with the Plaintiff's preferred candidate."
The filing is by Georgia's Republican AG on behalf of its Republican governor and others.
Meanwhile in Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court won't allow a conservative group to file a new challenge to the results of the election Trump lost there.
There's a concurrence from Justice Hagedorn, a frequent swing vote, expressing dismay at overturning an election. "We are invited to invalidate the entire presidential election in Wisconsin by declaring it “null”—yes, the whole thing."
Hagedorn's concurrence probably doesn't bode well for President Trump's own state lawsuit in Wisconsin that also seeks to invalidate the results of the presidential election he lost.
A Nevada state court just shot down Trump's effort to overturn the election he lost there. The plaintiffs "failed to meet their burden to provide credible and relevant evidence to substantiate any" of their claims.
The judge said a lot of the Trump electors' evidence was inadmissible because it was hearsay and was submitted in the form of written declarations. But the judge considers it anyway and Trump still loses.
Trump's lawyer to a federal judge just now: "It's been a long time since my civil procedure class."
The judge asks why, if Trump's lawyers say only the legislature can redress violations of the Electors Clause, are we here at all? Why didn't you just ask them?
Judge: "I have a very, very hard time seeing how this is justiciable in the federal court."
Judge Ludwig: Trump's request to have the case remanded to the state legislature is "a little bizarre."