Trump openly pushing for disenfranchisement

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/gop-michigan-results-trump/index.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/trump-campaign-election-coup-bypass-biden-win

THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS REPORTEDLY PLOTTING AN ELECTION COUP TO “BYPASS” A BIDEN WIN
How Republican-controlled state legislatures could be used to circumvent the results of the election and ensure a Trump victory.


Now the Trump campaign is said to be considering another, even more outrageous approach: In a thorough and deeply disconcerting piece about the constitutional crisis that may await us between November 3 and the inauguration in January, the Atlantic’s Barton Gellman reports that the Trump campaign has been discussing “contingency plans to bypass the election results and appoint local electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority.” Citing the president’s baseless claims of fraud, Team Trump could ask GOP-controlled state governments to choose electors, completely ignoring an unfavorable or uncertain popular vote, state and national Republican sources told Gellman.

“The state legislatures will say, ‘All right, we’ve been given this constitutional power,’” a Trump campaign legal adviser explained to the Atlantic. “‘We don’t think the results of our own state are accurate, so here’s our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state.’”

Does completely ignoring the will of the voters seem anti-democratic? Unconstitutional? Impossible? One would think. But as Gellman points out, however authoritarian this kind of end-around may seem, the Constitution doesn’t forbid such a move, and it’s something the Trump campaign could pull off. Indeed, state Republican leaders have already casually indicated that they’d be all too happy to enable this kind of power grab. “I’ve mentioned it to them, and I hope they’re thinking about it too,” Lawrence Tabas, chairman of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania, one of the swing states on which the 2020 race could hinge, told Gellman. “It is one of the available legal options set forth in the constitution.”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/gop-michigan-results-trump/index.html
Trump courts Michigan GOP leaders in bid to overturn election he lost

(CNN)President Donald Trump has invited Republican state lawmakers from Michigan to the White House on Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the President and his legal team are mounting an effort to overturn the results of the election he lost to President-elect Joe Biden.

Trump also called two Republican canvass board members from Wayne County, to Tuesday to offer his support, the person said, after they went back and forth on voting to certify the election results from the state's largest county, which includes Detroit. The board members filed affidavits Wednesday seeking to "rescind" their votes to certify the election result.
Trump extended the invitation on Thursday morning to the Michigan lawmakers by calling the state senate's Republican majority leader, the person familiar said.

 

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https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/gov.uscourts.pamd_.127057.202.0_1-1.pdf

 

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https://apnews.com/article/election...in-elections-dcb7da95578fc7289122c6d372575a9b
Wisconsin officials: Trump observers obstructing recount

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count.

Trump requested the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both heavily liberal, in hopes of undoing Democrat Joe Biden’s victory by about 20,600 votes. With no precedent for a recount reversing such a large margin, Trump’s strategy is widely seen as aimed at an eventual court challenge, part of a push in key states to undo his election loss.

A steady stream of Republican complaints in Milwaukee was putting the recount far behind schedule, county clerk George Christenson said. He said many Trump observers were breaking rules by constantly interrupting vote counters with questions and comments.

“That’s unacceptable,” he said. He said some of the Trump observers “clearly don’t know what they are doing.”

Tim Posnanski, a county election commissioner, told his fellow commissioners there appeared to be two Trump representatives at some tables where tabulators were counting ballots, violating rules that call for one observer from each campaign per table. Posnanski said some Trump representatives seemed to be posing as independents.

At one recount table, a Trump observer objected to every ballot that tabulators pulled from a bag simply because they were folded, election officials told the panel.

Posnanski called it “prima facie evidence of bad faith by the Trump campaign.” He added later: “I want to know what is going on and why there continues to be obstruction.”

Joe Voiland, a lawyer speaking to commission members on behalf of the Trump campaign, denied his side was acting in bad faith.

“I want to get to the point of dialing everything down … and not yelling at each other,” Voiland said.

At least one Trump observer was escorted out of the building by sheriff’s deputies Saturday after pushing an election official who had lifted her coat from an observer chair. Another Trump observer was removed Friday for not wearing a face mask properly as required.

Trump paid $3 million, as required by state law, for the partial recount that began Friday and must conclude by Dec. 1.

His team is seeking to disqualify ballots where election clerks filled in missing address information on the certification envelope where the ballot is inserted, even though the practice has long been accepted in Wisconsin.

The campaign also alleges thousands of absentee ballots don’t have proper written paperwork, and that some absentee voters improperly declared themselves “indefinitely confined,” a status that allows them to receive a ballot without photo ID. Those challenges were being rejected.

There have been at least 31 recounts in statewide elections in the U.S. since the most famous one in Florida’s presidential election in 2000. The recounts changed the outcome of three races. All three were decided by hundreds of votes, not thousands.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1259147372984180736

ASs backward, as usual.

No, it was a DNC-CIA-CHICOM combine that created and ran corrupt voting software that flipped this election. PLUS the 100 million blank ballots sent out. PLUS all the box stuffing and raw manufacturing of physical ballots at the precinct level.

And you have the sheer audacity (OR PURE IGNORANCE) to claim Trump authenticating voter signatures "disenfranchises voters" . ......

Lemmie be clear. We win. You lose.



https://79days.news/watch?id=5fb859add4cd4b442fc8a062

 

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GOP going for the steal in MI

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news...ahead-of-meeting-to-certify-election-results/

Michigan Republican warns of ‘constitutional crisis’ ahead of meeting to certify election results
Michigan Board of State Canvassers asked to delay certification of election results

DETROIT – In an interview with Fox News Sunday morning Republican and Michigan House Speaker, Lee Chatfield, talked about the possibility of a “constitutional crisis” ahead of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers scheduled Monday meeting to certify election results.

“If there were to be a 2-2 split on the State Board of Canvassers, it would then go to the Michigan Supreme Court to determine what their response would be, what their order would be,” said Chatfield on Fox News. “If they didn’t have an order that it be certified, well now we have a constitutional crisis in the state of Michigan. It’s never occurred before.”

Both Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and Chatfield were invited to the White House on Friday as part of Trump’s effort to overturn results in the election he lost.

Chatfield debunked circulating rumors that he was asked to intervene in the election process during Friday’s meeting.

“This outrage that the president was going to ask us to break the law and he was gonna ask us to interfere, and that just simply didn’t happen,” he said.

After the meeting both leaders issued a joint letternoting that the meeting with the president was on the state’s fight against COVID-19.

Chatfield also denied claims that the president is trying to disenfranchise voters.

Currently, Black voters are suing the Trump campaign over its effort to invalidate election results.

Chatfield stated that he has no intention on interfering in the Michigan Board of State Canvassers certification process.

“I’m certainly not going to interfere in that process and I have not had a conversation with the Board of State Canvassers,” he said.

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Michigan Republican Party Chairman Laura Cox penned a joint letter dated yesterday to the Michigan Board of State Canvassers asking to delay the certification of election results for two weeks.

The period would allow for a full audit and investigation into potential voter fraud. Since the presidential election Republican leaders have made allegations of voter fraud without substantial evidence.

“This board faces a stark choice: it can either ignore numerical anomalies and credible reports of procedural irregularities, leaving the distrust and sense of procedural disenfranchisement felt by many Michigan voters to fester for years; or it can adjourn for fourteen days to allow for a full audit and investigation into those anomalies and irregularities before certifying the results of the 2020 General Election, allowing all Michiganders to have confidence in the results,” read the letter.

According to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson an audit cannot be completed prior to the certification of results.

Michigan Democratic State Rep. Matt Koleszar responded to Chatfield’s comments on Fox News.

“Mr. Speaker continues to use vague language in his interviews and statements about safeguarding the election. The constitutional crisis has already begun sir. It began the day you and other leaders refused to stand behind our clerks and election process,” said Koleszar in the Tweet.

In a Tweet Shirkey addressed tomorrow’s meeting stating, “Whether the Board of Canvassers certifies our results tomorrow or decides to take the full time allowed by law to perform their duties, it’s inappropriate for anyone to exert pressure on them.”

https://www.newsweek.com/impeach-gr...ichigan-braces-covid-election-battles-1549256
'Impeach Gretchen Whitmer' Petition Gains Support as Michigan Braces for COVID, Election Battles

 

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https://news.yahoo.com/trump-campai...to-disenfranchise-black-voters-100000739.html
Trump campaign sued for attempting to disenfranchise Black voters

But the president’s campaign now finds itself on the other side of a legal case in a newly filed federal lawsuit alleging that it violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 when it sought to “disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters,” particularly African Americans in metropolitan areas of Michigan.

“It’s not even about the success of President Trump and the Trump campaign’s attempts to overturn the election,” Monique Lin-Luse, assistant counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, which filed the lawsuit, told Yahoo News. “The very attempt ... to overturn it by disenfranchising and de-legitimizing Black voters is what we believe is unlawful, and it's also dangerous and corrosive to our democracy.”

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-electi...-of-anti-black-campaign-to-overturn-election/
Judge Emmet Sullivan Will Oversee Voting Rights Act Case Accusing Trump of Anti-Black Campaign to Overturn Election

President Donald Trump and his failed re-election campaign have engaged in an unlawful strategy aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, according to a lawsuit recently filed in federal court.

On Tuesday morning, the case was assigned to a judge who, during the Trump era, has been viewed as particularly unsympathetic to current occupant of the White House: U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, the judge overseeing retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn’s never-ending Trumpworld passion play.


inb4, tweet "you can't assign that judge because he's black."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/05/america-ex-felon-disenfranchisement-democracies/
America’s Unique Kind of Disenfranchisement
America, unlike most democracies, maintains barriers to ex-felons voting, which affects millions.

Take Florida, a state some polls suggested Joe Biden could win, even though President Donald Trump carried the state handily thanks to a boost in Latino support. But due to a loophole in a 2018 amendment to the Florida constitution, Floridians with felony convictions must pay all their fines and restitution before they can vote. That measure, which most affects Latino and Black voters, kept an estimated 900,000 felons who have served their time disenfranchised—more than Trump’s expected margin of victory.

A report estimates that 2.23 million Americans remain disenfranchised after their release due to their felony convictions, and Florida has more than any other state. While many states have begun restoring voting rights to people convicted of felonies, states that maintain some restrictions tend to be solidly Republican. In the 2018 elections, where Georgia faced national criticism for widespread mismanagement and voter suppression, felony disenfranchisement prevented 211,511 ex-prisoners from voting. This year the state was again denounced for a mishandled primary election that included long polling lines and broken voting machines.

 

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https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/pr...lect-own-electors/KYUYAKTGP5HOVBAP4MS3GDOMAI/

President Trump’s attorneys ask Georgia legislature to overturn election, select own electors

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump’s attorneys are asking the Georgia legislature to overturn the state’s election results and select their own electors. Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani is in Atlanta Thursday talking to lawmakers about the election’s integrity.

President-elect Joe Biden won the state by about 13,000 votes over President Trump.

Channel 2′s Richard Elliot has been at the state capitol following the proceedings throughout the day. Trump’s attorneys are alleging widespread fraud and have filed a lawsuit in Fulton County superior court to contest the election.

Giuliani and his team presented what they say is new evidence of security camera video from State Farm Arena. They say it shows Fulton County workers illegally counting ballots after GOP observers left the building.

But the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office said it already investigated these claims and found nothing. They said they had their own observers there the whole time who saw nothing.

Still, Giuliani thinks it’s enough to throw out Georgia’s election.

“And the fact that you have the power to do this. State law doesn’t in any way prevent you, the legislature, from immediately taking this over and deciding this,” he said.

“‘According to the law of the state of Georgia, we do not have the power to submit alternate electors. The provision in the old law is quite clear,” said Georgia State Senator Elena Parent.

Sources told Elliot that even if some Republican lawmakers wanted to try and do this, they would face some major pushback even from members of their own party.