Posted on 08/25/2020 4:32:25 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
A recent NYT piece about the presidential election reads more like an article in The Onion or Babylon Bee. It claims that “President Trump’s litigiousness and unfounded claims of fraud have increased the likelihood of epic post-election court fights.”
The president’s “litigiousness”?! In state after state, almost all the lawsuits filed over this year’s elections have been filed by Democrats and liberal or progressive organizations, seeking to change election rules by judicial fiat. Their objective: force all-mail elections or huge increases in absentee balloting while simultaneously eliminating safeguards against abuse and fraud. The NYT must not have read their own reporters’ story. That story cites law professor Richard Pildes’s count of at least 160 lawsuits filed by “party organizations, campaigns and interest groups,” noting that the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee “are involved” in only 40, “some in response to Democratic lawsuits.” For those familiar with basic arithmetic, the “litigiousness” is on the other side of the political aisle.
The Times is right, though, when it says that the possibility of litigation after this November’s election may make the 2000 fight in Florida “look like a high school student council election” in comparison. But given what has occurred so far, if we have contentious court fights, it is far more likely that they will be initiated by Democrats attempting to game the system, not Republicans.
The nature of the hundred-plus lawsuits filed by Democrats and these organizations make that clear. All of those lawsuits have similar goals that will give these political actors the ability to game the system. This would be true of any actors trying to change the rules in this manner mid-game. They are trying to force states to mail absentee ballots to all registered voters, despite the known inaccuracies of state voter rolls.
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Marxists accuse their enemies of what they have done, are doing, and will continue to do.
Read about the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, so much to learn from our past and what the Dems are willing to do for power.
Uhhh.... who recounts every election?
The Dems have been doing all they can to devalue and even cause the vote to be contested since the Bush vs Gore days.
And it’s only gotten worse as the years have gone bye.
Mark
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