Posted on 03/17/2021 6:50:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Source: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
It's too late now, but vindication came to one of the Trump campaign election violation claims lobbed after Election Day. The Michigan courts ruled that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson overstepped her authority when she issued unilateral changes for absentee ballots in the state. It all centered on voter signature verification. If she wanted to do that, she was going to have to get the state legislature’s approval. There was a reason why she didn’t pursue this route: Michigan’s state legislature is majority Republican. So, she took this for a spin, and it worked. The Trump campaign’s claim was vindicated, but the damage is done. President Dementia is in the Oval now (via Breitbart):
A Michigan judge ruled last week Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) broke state law when she unilaterally issued rules related to absentee balloting, legitimizing a key claim made by the Trump campaign in its legal challenges to the 2020 election.
Benson issued several unilateral orders during the 2020 election including sending absentee ballot applications to all registered voters. She also issued “guidance” on how to evaluate absentee ballots, a move Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Christopher Murray held violated the state’s Administrative Procedures Act.
In the guidance, Benson said “slight similarities” in signatures on absentee ballots should lead a counter to decide “in favor of finding that the voter’s signature was valid.”
Murray ruled Benson violated the law “because the guidance issued by the Secretary of State on October 6, 2020, with respect to signature matching standards was issued in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA).”
“I’m glad the court sees Secretary of State Benson’s attempts at lawmaking for what they are — clear violations of her authority,” Michigan state Rep. Matt Hall (R) said in a statement.
“If she wants to make changes like these, she needs to work with the Legislature or properly promulgate them through the laws we have on the books — in this case the Administrative Procedures Act,” he continued.
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Signature validation rules created without the approval of a legislature was one of the issues the Trump campaign and Republicans claimed was done illegally in the 2020 election.
This happened in many states. https://t.co/oDAwxfYrQS— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) March 16, 2021
We all know Democrats play dirty. I think we underestimated how low they would go and didn’t plan for every possible scenario in that regard. We just have to swallow the defeat, but also learn to play dirtier when the time comes. Win at all costs—no matter what. This is a new era, folks. There are no media brownie points for being the so-called ‘better person.’ There’s no return on investment for being the good guy. No one cares about that anymore. This is politics. At some level, the American voter expects whoever is running on whatever ticket to be a little scummy. Yet, this ruling also brings into question whether Biden truly received over 80 million legal votes. I’m not so sure. I would heavily bet against that.
All of this, happening in multiple states, in broad daylight, and NOTHING was done about it across the board.
You tell me this was not a coup!!!
JUST who coordinated this heist of our Country?
This wasn’t just some SOS from a state or two. This is SO DEEP, it’s scary now !
I don't think they can. The governor can remove officials for wrong-doing but I don't believe there's an impeachment process in the Michigan constitution.
I believe that in most states, much like federal impeachment, that when a state official is impeached, they are barred from holding any public office in that state.
I am not sure of the laws that might be in play in this case so an impeachment would be the minimum that I can say as an option with any confidence.
Bump
No consequences = license.
Street justice.
“and the penalty for this”= resume enhancement amongst the left. nice gig with msnbc or cnn waiting if not the Gov mansion.
“Primary the Republican legislature.”
This will be a complete waste of time. The GOPee had a majority in each of the chambers of Michigan state government. What did these azzholes in the GOPee do? They voted for Mike Shirkey as their leader in the Senate and Lee Chatfield as their leader in the House. Both of these scurrilous scumbags failed to do a g*****n thing to Stop The Steal when the electoral crisis was underway. In fact, they held “hearings” that “proved” there was no electoral fraud in the state election. This is same sort of asininity that has resulted in Liz Cheney as a GOPee “leader.” The GOPee is utterly, totally, completely corrupt from top to bottom, inside and out. Expecting the GOPee to reverse our national collapse is the height of folly. GOP Delenda Est!
Primary Mike Shirkey and Lee Chatfield.
Because we allowed it? They should be drawn and quartered.
If we keep hearing reports of voting irregularities, wouldn’t be prudent to do the whole thing over again?
Because we don’t kill them.
I see it as our mistake.
“I’m glad the court sees Secretary of State Benson’s attempts at lawmaking for what they are — clear violations of her authority,” Michigan state Rep. Matt Hall (R) said in a statement.
Clearly a racist, white male supremacist statement. /rimshot
Let me just say that, after having read much of this topic, FreeRepublic should have a "like" button for each post. Some of them need a "really like" button.
“Primary Mike Shirkey and Lee Chatfield.”
Your idiotic non-response fails to address any point that I raised in my argument. The majority of the GOPee membership in the Michigan Senate and House voted for Shirkey and Chatfield to be their “leaders.” This, itself, reveals the GOPee membership to be just as despicable and downright asinine as their craven and corrupt “leaders” that they freely chose. It explains why the GOPee at every level failed to Stop The Steal. And not only that they didn’t Stop The Steal, they VOTED FOR IT! Why on God’s green earth would any sane person look for a gaggle of abject idiots like the Michigan GOPee, or any other state GOPee organization, to ever do anything right? This sort of thing has gone on for, like, forever. It is why scurrilous scumbags like Liz Cheney are voted in to positions as “leaders” at the state and federal levels, time and again, even when the true nature of their skullduggery is revealed for all to see. The GOPee is absolutely rotten to the core. Eff the GOPee! GOP Delenda Est!
Untrue. Every scenario was examined after the extent of ballot harvesting revealed the 2018 'never-stop-counting' Kali fraud that stole at least 4 House seats from the GOP.
The election laws that are being legislated now to rollback COVID 'anything-goes' unconstitutional bs, are basically the same laws that were typed up after 2018. No one wanted them!
REPEAT, NO ONE IN THE GOP WANTED THEM.
No conservative deep-pocket entity wants to fund the pushback.
It's expensive; election law is understood by about .002% of the American populace; and it's 'unsexy' -- no conservative producer wants the topic. FoxNews bailed on it, Cumulus Media censored their conservative talkers, Premiere Networks apparently 'broached' the subject with Rush and were told to get bent (thank you for courage to the end, Rushbo); and even the discussions here were saturated with trolls purposefully trying to shut down Freepers interested in solving the election fraud problem.
I said to primary the legislature in my post you moron. You say they’re all bad, so don’t primary them.
“are basically the same laws that were typed up after 2018.“
Exactly. HR 1 is like the outrages initial proposal a Union throws up so what we end with is stage 3 cancer instead of 4. The cheating is getting baked in now. We will down to maybe 15 states and a nullified Electoral College.
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