Posted on 02/02/2021 1:59:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A New York state trial court judge has ruled that Republican Claudia Tenney has won New York’s 22nd Congressional District election, an outcome that has been tied up in court since November. New York Judge Scott J. DelConte issued a final order finding that Tenney gained votes after her narrow November win, thus increasing her lead to 123 votes over Anthony Brindisi and thus is the winner of the November election.
Despite Tenney’s victory, Democrat campaign lawyer Marc Elias has become the new Lin Wood – tying up the victory in courts and denying the obvious win for Tenney.
After Tenney’s win, Elias’ law firm sought a stay of the ruling, effectively blocking Tenney from taking her seat.
At issue for the last few months has been the role of provisional ballots. Under the Help America Vote Act of 2002, if an individual presenting himself to vote thinks he is registered, he has a federal right to cast a provisional ballot. Whether or not that ballot is counted depends on if that person proves ultimately to have actually been registered.
In Tenney’s case, Democrat lawyers only wanted 69 provisional ballots counted out of hundreds that were at issue. Naturally, those 69 were registered Democrats.
Tenney’s legal team opposed the selective counting and a court in New York ordered all of the appropriate provisional ballots to be counted – an outcome that handed Tenney the win yesterday.
Not so fast.
In his best Kraken impersonation, Elias’ legal team vowed to gum up the outcome further by seeking a stay of Tenney’s win and filing what will prove to be a frivolous appeal.
Ironically, Elias just criticized the same approach in the presidential election:
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
So, are they going to keep counting until the Democrat wins?
RE: So, are they going to keep counting until the Democrat wins?
*THAT* has always been the plan. Count on it ( pun intended).
“So, are they going to keep counting until the Democrat wins?”
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Last lines of the J. Christian Adams article:
“All of this illustrates a simple truth that everyone understood all along, both Republicans and Democrats. When Republicans win, the 54 lawyers at Perkins Coie like Marc Elias will leave no stone unturned to snatch a win from defeat. Just ask Norm Coleman in Minnesota.
But when Republicans exercise the same prerogative after an election, democracy is under threat. The depths of hypocrisy are bottomless.”
J Christian Adams.
Idiot outs himself.
RE: Idiot outs himself.
Can you elaborate?
LIB speak/math
R wins 59-40 and it is too close to call
D wins 50.1-49.9 and it is a runaway for the D
Saddest part is that the Rs go along with this fiasco just so they don’t look ‘mean’.
Just search Marc Elias it will make you nauseous what this man has done since the 2016 election.
Ping
Elias needs to be one of the earliest to go up against the wall
I wish someone would come up with a word for that thing where a group of people make a planned and coordinated effort to interfere with the outcome of an election and block the seating of a government official when they don’t like the outcome of an election. I tried looking up “insurrection”, but the dictionary says that word can’t be applied to a democrat.
When is the rejection for “standing” going to be applied to the ahole lawyer?
You presume that republicans are actually opposed to democrats winning elections. All evidence points to the opposite. They definitely wanted Hillary to win. They definitely wanted Biden to win. They definitely wanted the dems to take the house in 2018 and take over as the Trump opposition in congress.
Perkins Coie ... a more treacherous hive of scum and villainy you will not find ...
Amen!
I thought law firms think it’s unwoke to overturn elections
“We need to stop pointing out the hypocrisy”
Personally, I wholeheartedly agree. It’s a position of weakness and is in no way persuasive.
Seems like the Judge should follow Michigan’s lead and file disbarment complaint with the state bar assoc.
You presume that republicans are actually opposed to democrats winning elections.
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How does me saying if Rs win a race by 60-40 it is too close to call and if the Ds win 50.1-49.9 is a landslide and pointing out the Rs go along with it say I think Rs are opposed to Ds winning?
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