Source: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
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.
“President Dementia is in the Oval now”
Wrong may he rain.
😄
Read what I wrote. The GOPee is rotten to the core, from top to bottom, inside and out. If every single one of the GOPee politicians have to be “primaried” then why the h*** would I continue to support the GOPee at all? That’s just nuts! I could just as easily start up a new party with new, more reliable members who agree with my agenda and want to accomplish the same goals without having to eff around with an organization that fights me tooth and claw on everything I am trying to accomplish. This is the reality of the GOPee today. The fact of the matter is that the RINOs in the GOPee are not outliers in the GOPee, they ARE the GOPee. It’s the conservatives and traditionalists who are the real RINOs because they don’t reflect what the GOPee is about or what they ever advance. It is absolute folly to try to “reform” or “fix” an organization that is so totally effed up to that degree. Eff the GOPee! GOPee Delenda Est!
Nullify the electoral votes for Michigan, next...
keepin’ the faith, bro....
we told her not to do it again and then she apologized so it’s all good.
Our election system is the envy or tin horn dictators the world over.
Because of democratic immunity.??
Now Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is vulnerable to civil lawsuits. She is going to pay a lot of money to lawyers to defend herself.
The Republic is dead.
There's no turning back.
The fate of the nation hangs in the balance of Joe Manchin.
There is no more a gutless clown than he, and we are his.
Why is it “too late?” And what consequence will Benson incur for breaking the law?
None of this vindications are in vain.
Hey, Paraguay might be better!! :-) Try maybe us Kaliforniastan, Oregon or WA state.
Then I guess she's going to jail; right?
It doesn’t matter anymore.
SCOTUS/Congress betrayed the USA, and Trump walked away.
China is in charge now.
HaHa! SUCKERS!!
Isn't this what God made torches, pitchforks, and sturdy rope for? (asking for a friend)
bttt
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