Posted on 11/13/2020 11:26:24 AM PST by Red Badger
Wayne County Judge Timothy Kenny rejected a lawsuit seeking to halt Detroit election results from being certified.
MICHIGAN — A Wayne County judge has rejected a lawsuit aiming to stop the certification of Detroit-area election results.
Wayne County Judge Timothy Kenny on Friday rejected the lawsuit, which in part took issue with the city's handling of absentee ballots.
"Plaintiff's interpretation of events is incorrect and not credible," Kenny wrote in his ruling.
Kenny said that numerous affidavits from election challengers "paint a picture of sinister fraudulent activities occurring both openly in the TCF Center and under the cloak of darkness." But those claims are contradicted by highly-respected former state elections director Christopher Thomas, who spent hours at the center and presented different accounts.
"Perhaps if Plaintiff's election challenger affiants had attended the October 29, 2020, walk-through of the TCF Center ballot counting location, questions and concerns could have been answered in advance of Election Day," the judge said in his ruling.
Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump by 146,000 votes in Michigan during the general election, according to unofficial election results. Michigan counties and the state Board of Canvassers have yet to certify the election results, however.
Friday's ruling marks the third time that a judge has declined intervening in the process to confirm election results in Michigan. Other lawsuits filed by Trump's campaign sought to stop the counting of ballots and asked for challengers to have additional access to ballot processing.
The lawsuit rejected on Friday claimed Republican challengers were removed from the TCF Center in Detroit while absentee ballots were being processed. It also claimed ballots were backdated and that signatures on ballot envelopes were not verified.
Election officials have said they allowed the maximum number of poll watchers for both political parties, with the only restrictions being put in place due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In interviews with workers at the TCF Center in Detroit, where ballots were counted, election officials told Patch off few irregularities, instead noting only "aggressive" and uninformed challengers.
Little by little, the left is winning the war. I expected this months ago.
Not surprised.
Can they do that?
I assume as the lower courts reject the lawsuits, they will eventually end up at SCOTUS.
Yup. Some Judge says: “I can see no corruption through my closed eyes.”
Here come the downer trolls.
I comes down to the legislature or SCOTUS
One honest judge is what it’ll take, can we find one?
In 2013, President Barack Obama appointed Thomas as a Commissioner on the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, which made recommendations to improve the election day experience of America’s voters.
Enough said
Up one more level.
What’s next Mayor Rudy?
And you’re trusting a majority of the SCOTUS to side with Trump? Prepare to be disappointed.
WTH does a pre Election Day walk have to do with what happened election night???
OK, on to the Supreme Court, then. Goodbye, Corrupt Wayne County Judge Timothy Kenny.
Isn’t the way to settle contradictory accounts is to investigate the claims to see if there is merit?
“Highly respected” Doe not mean jack shit in this political game. That is an opinion and should not stand in the way of finding facts any more than the truth should be dismissed because the source was not highly respected.
“Here come the downer trolls.“
Ugh. They’re like Fox News without the fake smiles
In Detroit? No
The courts are political. It’s Trump and more than half the country against a corrupt government. Time to split the country. They can have their communist states. We’ll have our free states and pick our own leaders.
I didnt say that. I said the lawsuits will end up there.
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