Posted on 12/06/2020 1:56:31 PM PST by Kaslin
Apparently, President Trump refusing to concede defeat to Joe Biden and fighting the results in the courts and in the legislatures is an affront to our system of government. But when a major law firm with extensive ties to the Democrat party and which was a major player in bankrolling Christopher Steele in his production of the infamous and fake Steele Dossier and the dissemination of that fraud to a credulous American press corps steps in to try to take a lawfully won Congressional seat from a Republican candidate, well, that’s just fine.
At issue are two very close House races. In Iowa’s Second District, Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks has been certified the winner by six votes out of over 390,000 cast over Molochian Rita Hart. In New York’s 22d District, all the competence we’ve come to expect from elections officials is on full display as Republican Claudia Tenney clings to a 12 vote edge over neo-socialist Anthony Brindisi:
Over the past three weeks, there have been a series of turns in the counting of 60,000 absentee ballots in some of the eight counties in the 22nd District.During that time, Brindisi erased Tenney’s election night lead of 28,422 votes. As votes were counted and mistakes corrected, the two candidates took turns leading the unofficial vote tally.
Lawyers for both campaigns muddied the process by challenging the validity of at least 809 ballots, a total that continued to grow ahead of the court hearing.
In Oneida County, election officials lost sticky notes attached to a stack of ballots disputed by campaign lawyers. Election officials admitted in court that without the notes they had no way to explain the reasons why the ballots were challenged or if they had been counted.
Madison County election officials didn’t make any markings on about 130 disputed absentee ballots, and instead gave the judge a spreadsheet that he couldn’t figure out.
Neither county followed a state law that requires election officials to note the reasons for the objection in ink on the back of the ballots.
Even after the judge asked the eight counties to submit final vote totals this week, Herkimer County election officials said they had to correct an error. Brindisi picked up 10 votes and Tenney 35 votes.
Then Chenango County reported that it found 55 uncounted affidavit ballots that had been “mislaid” at the Board of Elections office.
All of the confusion prompted a frustrated state Supreme Court Justice Scott J. DelConte to declare in court that he didn’t know how it would be possible to come up with an accurate vote count when some counties couldn’t provide accurate information.
When reading that, keep in mind that Tenney had a 28,000 vote lead on election night and consider the odds of this percentage of the “corrections” going in the same direction.
But no one really needs to worry about actual votes when you have total control of the process.
Normally this exhaustive process would end matters. Not this year. Ms. Hart’s campaign said it will bypass an Iowa court appeal and ask the Committee on House Administration to intervene. The House has final say on its Members’ elections and the Supreme Court has held that courts can’t intervene in those decisions under the Constitution’s Article I.That means the count in Iowa’s 2nd District will become a political fight rather than a legal one. House Democrats in 1985 took advantage of the same process to reverse Indiana’s state certification of a Republican winner in a Congressional race. They refused to seat either candidate in January, and in May declared the Democrat the winner after their recount excluded 32 absentee votes.
That was a polarizing moment in House history and it hasn’t been done since. But this is a year of breaking precedents, and the Democrats are well-equipped for the fight. Marc Elias, the Democratic election lawyer, helped use the courts to engineer changes to voting rules ahead of the 2020 election that benefited Democrats. Politico reports that his firm, Perkins Coie, is representing Ms. Hart. Given the sympathetic audience they are likely to enjoy in the House, Ms. Hart’s lawyers want to throw enough doubt on the outcome to give Democrats political cover to overturn the result.
Perkins Coie is also in New York’s 22nd district upstate, where Democrat Anthony Brindisi is down by 12 votes in the preliminary final count to Republican Claudia Tenney. They want a judge to review county election board decisions on disputed ballots. Ms. Tenney’s lawyers warn in a court filing of “the perils of trying to recreate a Board’s findings in the absence of appropriate Board notations,” and ask the judge to put the race to an end.
To flip this election, the Democrats are going to their legal stormtroopers, Perkins Coie, to do the dirty work. What Perkins Coie is doing is laying the groundwork to use the Federal Contested Elections Act of 1969 (2 U.S.C. §§ 381) to let the Democrat House decide the outcome.
In the case of Miller-Meeks, where the election has undergone all legitimate challenges, this will be simply a raw exercise of power. Much like how the presidential election seems to have been blatantly ripped off (This Isn’t Just the Theft of an Election, This Is a Message to All of Us), this is intended to build a sense of hopelessness among conservatives. It is intended to tell us that Stalin was right, “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
There is a price for attempting a coup.
there should be absolute hell to pay if the house steals the Iowa win from the Republicans.
“These are times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
-Thomas Paine
What will the verdict of this trial be?
pubs don’t stand up for other pubs....I hate them....
Gearing up?
They had a pretty good run in 2018 by ‘flipping’ close to a dozen House seats then.
“Pubs” aren’t the problem. Certainly not in this case. Please at least try to direct your irrational hatred at least some measure of accuracy.
Oh,, you mean the first time they did it was in the Presidential election? And now they are going to branch out into smaller and local races? /s
Think the first time Tom Brady deflated a ball was in he playoffs?
Think the first time Lance Armstrong used dope was in the Tour De France?
Did Biden actually beat Bernie? Were Dominion voting machines used in the primaries?
I wouldn’t expect less from the Democrat Organized Criminal Enterprise.
Led by the Democrat National Criminals (DNC).
“Trying” is not “doing”.
Red state should be thrilled Dems are taking over.
While one contested swing-state’s so-called “Republican” do-nothing legislature went home for an extended, one-month vacation, all Democrats are still persistently at it, not even coming up for air, and are continuing to frantically count more Biden-ballots, as other determined Democrats continue intensely fighting to flip House seats.
The House can literally seat whomever it wants. True.
Check out McCloskey v Mcintyre from Indiana about 30 years ago.
Bingo. How long has this been going on? Repeat that to any Dem who gives you a hard time about "The Steal".
Manufacturing 20 votes is nothing for the Party that manufactured millions.
Chances are that NYS new ‘Rat supermajority in the state legislature is also the result of vote fraud.
The entire bloody state’s slate for everything from prez on down ought to be declared invalid, and the whole state should get a do-over.
In person voting this time. On old fashioned machines.
No there’s not! Evil ALWAYS WINS....besides our stupid backstabbing republican weasels will accommodate the POS rats by using the same voting machines because they are spineless and believe the mediaVOMITS that no fraud took place instead of believing their very own eyes! I hear Venezuela Mauro’s party gang won ALL seats of office there using the same voting machines we did! THE FIX IS IN!
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