Thread by @bradheath

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.

Georgia's government seems pretty tired of this shit.

Did you know that one of the leading "experts" alleging fraud in Georgia claimed to have invented email, apparently fraudulently? Now you do.

Georgia notes that Sidney Powell & Co. "attached altered documents" to their complaint. The filings were cropped to remove the dates; she then argued the documents were "undated" in the lawsuit. This is a no-no.

Georgia's brief is a pretty straight demolition of some of the claims that voting machines were rigged, signatures weren't matched and other falsehoods.

This is a very normal kind of brief for a state to file when faced with a far-fetched lawsuit like this one. It's notable in large part because so many people - including the President - have asked the state to abnormal things to keep Trump in power.

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Georgia has a separate filing this evening pointing out some of the many problems with the supposed experts pushing election-fraud conspiracies, including in Powell's case. One is an ex-Trump staffer. Others use "incomplete or faulty data."
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Georgia notes that one of Powell's lead experts - the guy who famously confused Minnesota and Michigan in a previous filing - "candidly admits his lack of relevant knowledge, education and experience" in his own declaration.

Georgia has mastered the mean parenthetical.

Lots of people ask why the gov't doesn't look into all this evidence of election fraud. Georgia pretty clearly did. Its lawyers have gone through the experts in Sidney Powell's cases, who also appear on alternate-reality TV. So they noticed one is the 8kun QAnon guy.

The statistical studies aren't much better. One expert - cited by Powell but also in the election-truther media - has "nonsensical" methodologies "and his data analysis is flawed and meaningless."

Doesn't help that they bungled basic facts.

There's something charming about Georgia's lawyers going through an is-this-person-actually-an-expert analysis for a person known in Powell's legal filings only as "Spyder."

Share this with any of your relatives who believe these people. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

The filing has exhibits in which actual experts look at some of these claims of statistical "anomalies" in voting patterns, and they're something.
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

There are more than a hundred pages of this stuff. I don't really know how to describe it. It's like asking actual doctors to do a serious examination of whatever weird anatomy claims you might find on Reddit.