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GOP Suddenly Drops Election Lawsuits In Four Battleground States Amid Recent Court Failures
https://www.forbes.com ^ | 11/16/2020 | Alison Durkee

Posted on 11/16/2020 12:20:53 PM PST by Red Badger

GOP plaintiffs moved to dismiss pending lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia Monday morning that targeted ballots in Democratic counties and attempted to block the states from certifying their election results, marking a noticeable shift in Republicans’ post-election legal strategy days after the Trump campaign and GOP suffered a series of failures in court Friday.

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Key Facts

Three Wisconsin voters, backed by conservative group True the Vote, voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block the state from certifying votes in several Democratic-leaning counties, claiming their votes had been diluted because of alleged voter fraud and “illegal” votes in those counties.

The lawsuit—in which the plaintiffs admitted they did not yet have any concrete evidence of illegal votes and the evidence would be “shortly forthcoming”—was dropped immediately before the case was supposed to be heard in court.

Similar lawsuits in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, in which voters in each state also tried to exclude votes that were cast in certain Democratic-leaning counties, were also dismissed by the plaintiffs Monday morning.

The notices of dismissal did not give a reason behind the plaintiffs’ decision, and conservative attorney James Bopp, who is associated with True the Vote and represented the plaintiffs in all four states, told the Associated Press Monday he could not comment on the Wisconsin lawsuit due to attorney-client privilege.

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Key Background

The GOP lawsuits were part of a broader effort by the Trump campaign and Republicans to challenge the election results in battleground states in the wake of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alisondurke; fakenews; steveforbes
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To: RetiredArmy

Well stated. I couldn’t agree more.

I say this


101 posted on 11/16/2020 1:13:59 PM PST by patriot torch
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To: Darksheare

And your law degree is from where?


102 posted on 11/16/2020 1:14:07 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: dpetty121263

Nonsense. I would be shocked if that were true based on how adamant his lawyers have been this week about the level of fraud they have seen.


103 posted on 11/16/2020 1:14:10 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: Jonny7797

Yeah, gutsiest call I’ve ever seen.


104 posted on 11/16/2020 1:17:24 PM PST by skimbell
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To: RedMominBlueState

I agree. And when the dust settles and every chad is counted there will remain one emboldened party and one defeated party. Whether we become members of the former or the latter remains to be seen.

105 posted on 11/16/2020 1:21:14 PM PST by patriot torch
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To: Jonny7797

In todays day and age, the only safe prediction I can think of, is predicting leftist corruption of anything they touch.


106 posted on 11/16/2020 1:30:21 PM PST by suasponte137
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To: Dutch Boy

Even with overwhelming, rock-solid proof, the Left will RAGE. Either way, there is going to be horrible violence.


107 posted on 11/16/2020 1:33:12 PM PST by ALASKA (Trump will win resoundingly, but it's not going to be pretty.)
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To: AU72

WHEN is this meeting???


108 posted on 11/16/2020 1:44:01 PM PST by RightLady (Save Western Civilization.)
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To: ALASKA

When doesn’t the left rage? Trump needs to win. The rest can be handled later.


109 posted on 11/16/2020 1:52:06 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: bigbob

Same as yours, the university of couch.
And your problem with my accurate statement is?


110 posted on 11/16/2020 2:24:48 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: ALASKA

Good. I need more exercise...


111 posted on 11/16/2020 2:26:38 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Red Badger

I think these were private lawsuites.


112 posted on 11/16/2020 2:31:34 PM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: mad_as_he$$

Recounts are a waste of time. Other devious election scams could be more profitable.


113 posted on 11/16/2020 3:22:42 PM PST by cp124 (Time for a new America.)
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To: Red Badger

Three Wisconsin voters, backed by conservative group True the Vote,


True the Vote is not a GOP group, though there probably are some common sympathies.

So, the article requires another article to explain what is actually said here.


114 posted on 11/16/2020 3:50:54 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: deport

This IS FAKE NEWS!!!

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Based upon what?


Well, for starters, it has nothing to do with the actual GOP.


115 posted on 11/16/2020 3:53:11 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: HandBasketHell

She said the Georgia recount was worse than useless because nothing was done about the machines accepting signatures that were well below the matching threshold established. Nothing has been done to throw out those bad signatures, so the hand count won’t be any different from the fraud machine count and Dems will use the result to bolster their claims of “nothing to see here.”


You’d think...but it looks like one precinct didn’t count 2600 votes, the majority of which went to Trump. It looks like he picked up between 900 and 1200 votes in just that precinct.


116 posted on 11/16/2020 3:55:54 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: DoodleDawg


117 posted on 11/16/2020 4:10:07 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: DoodleDawg


118 posted on 11/16/2020 4:10:48 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Dutch Boy

Oh, I don’t worry about their petulance. That WILL be taken care of, and Trump WILL win.


119 posted on 11/16/2020 5:43:06 PM PST by ALASKA (Trump will win resoundingly, but it's not going to be pretty.)
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To: AU72

...a massive legal filing is imminent.
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Sounds promising.


120 posted on 11/16/2020 6:59:10 PM PST by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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