Posted on 11/14/2020 8:50:23 AM PST by gattaca
Three voters in Wisconsin have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude Nov. 3 election results in three of the state’s counties that helped push Joe Biden ahead of President Donald Trump. The action, if successful, would invalidate over 792,000 votes cast across the state.
The civil action (pdf), filed on Thursday, alleges that there is “sufficient evidence that illegal votes were counted” in Milwaukee, Dane, and Menominee counties “to change or place in doubt the results” of the presidential election in the counties. The voters asked the court to declare that the counties’ results “must be invalidated” and to block the counties from certifying their results.
All three counties lean heavily Democrat, with Milwaukee and Dane being among the most populous and heavily Democratic counties in the state. For the three counties, Biden holds a lead of 365,289 votes over Trump. In the state overall, Biden holds a lead of about 20,540 votes at 49.6 percent, compared to Trump at 48.9 percent as of Saturday. The Trump campaign has signaled it will request a recount.
“Certifying presidential electors without excluding certain counties would violate voters’ fundamental right to vote by vote-dilution disenfranchisement,” the suit said, citing the First and 14th Amendment protections.
The lawsuit stated: “Because illegal votes dilute legal votes, the evidence establishes, and will establish, that the rights of voters have been violated by vote-dilution disenfranchisement. Consequently, the presidential election results from the counties identified should not be included in certified and reported totals for presidential electors from this state.”
The suit asserted, citing past court rulings, that there is fraud risk inherent in mail-in ballots, and that voter fraud occurs more with mailed ballots than in-person ballots. It points out that Wisconsin “greatly expanded” the scope of mail-in ballots in 2020 amid the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.
Wisconsin Counts Poll workers check in a box of absentee ballots at Sun Prairie High School in Sun Prairie, Wis., on Nov. 3, 2020. (Andy Manis/Getty Images) Plaintiffs noted that the “sudden flood of mailed ballots” this year meant that election workers in general had “less ability to carefully review them to screen out fraudulent ones, creating a substantial risk that fraudulent votes will be counted and vote-dilution disenfranchisement will occur.”
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Green Bay Division. The plaintiffs are from Door County, Brown County, and Oconto County. The Wisconsin Democratic Party on Friday filed a motion to intervene (pdf).
Data Analysis The lawsuit states that plaintiffs “possess advanced technical capability to conduct statistical analyses identifying errors and anomalies such [as] double votes, votes by non-registered persons, votes by persons who are deceased or moved out of state, and the like.”
“Plaintiffs have persons with such expertise and data-analysis software already in place who have begun preliminary analysis of available data to which final data, such as the official poll list, will be added and reports generated,” the suit said, suggesting that the results will show that “sufficient illegal ballots were included in the results to change or place in doubt the Nov. 3 presidential election results.”
They said that the expert report will “identify persons who cast votes illegally by casting multiple ballots, were deceased, had moved, or were otherwise not qualified to vote in the Nov. 3 presidential election, along with evidence of illegal ballot stuffing, ballot harvesting, and other illegal voting.”
The plaintiffs are seeking “immediate production of registration, election, and other data to conduct and present those analyses to the court.”
‘Indefinitely Confined’ Not Requiring Voter ID Plaintiffs also took issue with a 238 percent increase—from 72,000 last year to 243,900 ahead of the Nov. 3 election—in a type of absentee ballot registration where voters self-report as “indefinitely confined.” This type of registration would mean that the voter wouldn’t need to present the ID normally required of a standard absentee ballot.
Wisconsin law regarding voter ID provides exceptions for individuals who declare as “indefinitely confined” either due to age, physical illness, infirmity, or disability, on their absentee ballots.
The suit alleged that the town of Menominee in Menominee County in early spring “encouraged” voters to vote absentee and provided instructions (pdf) that said “indefinitely confined” voters “are not required to provide a photo ID.” The suit also noted that Dane County and Milwaukee County earlier this year had “openly advised voters to indicate that they are ‘indefinitely confined.'”
All three counties saw notable increases in “indefinitely confined” voters.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin said earlier this year that the clerks’ advice in the respective counties were “willfully ignoring” state election law, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court subsequently ruled that the counties’ advice were “legally incorrect.”
Wisconsin Election officials count absentee ballots at City Hall in Beloit, Wis., on Nov. 3, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Other Issues The plaintiffs also noted the situation surrounding absentee ballot witness signatures and their addresses on the ballot envelope.
Under Wisconsin law, a ballot cannot be counted if the witness’s address is not present. However, the plaintiffs noted how the Wisconsin Elections Commission had issued guidance (pdf) saying that the issue could be cured by the clerk without the witness appearing.
The suit argued that the clerks “have no authority to accept the ballot,” and cites how Wisconsin law states (pdf) that “if a certificate is missing the address of a witness, the ballot may not be counted.”
The suit also pointed out several individuals, identified by their initials only, who alleged that they encountered voting irregularities, which included having received unsolicited ballots, or having received more absentee ballots than expected, and finding names of deceased voters who, according to myvotewi.gov, cast an absentee vote.
A number of media outlets declared Democratic nominee Joe Biden president-elect on Nov. 7. President Donald Trump has alleged voter fraud and said any declarations of victory are premature, without specifying how widespread the alleged cases are. His campaign has launched multiple legal challenges in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan, over a variety of alleged voting irregularities.
States face a Dec. 8 deadline for resolving election disputes and certifying presidential electors. Electoral College votes will be cast on Dec. 14. As such, the plaintiffs in the case are seeking a quick decision from the court.
The Epoch Times won’t declare a winner of the 2020 presidential election until all results are certified and any legal challenges are resolved.
Attitude is everything.
If Donald Trump had listened to all the people telling him “no way”, “impossible”, “waste of time”, “never happen”, he would never have become President.
You cannot achieve what you do not _try_ to achieve.
You cannot be successful without determination and a positive attitude.
Life is simple when you know the rules.
We _can_ do this _together_!
Throwing out Madison and Milwaukee not just votes but Madison and Milwaukee would help too.
One further thought—in my work-group (during my working days) before we started on a new major task we would always ask if there was anybody in the room who thought the proposed task was impossible.
Some folks would raise their hands.
They were asked to leave the room—and kept out of the project.
That is one reason we did hundreds of “impossible” things.
They might be negative vibes, but they are realistic vibes.
I’m realistic enough to grasp that the America I grew up in is in simply broken beyond repair. The only way at this point is for a complete reset and that might mean civil war, secession, or a mass takeover of the governing establishment by we the people. pretty unlikely to happen but you never know. the system is too bloated and broken to self-repair.
The big difference between now and the 1860’s is that China, Russia and possibly other foreign interests will instantly be moving in to any dents in our armor.
In my life I have been involved in too many “impossible” things to believe that word anymore.
Once you have experienced “doing the impossible” just one time, then you _get_ it.
Until then it sounds crazy.
I guess I am in the mood to rant some more... :-)
How to do “impossible” things:
(1) Do your homework. Research all the details, all the facts, and make sure you have all of them exactly correct.
(2) Determine a strategy on how to get from where you are to where you want to go. Debate the strategy. Field test it in small ways to find flaws. Revise as necessary.
(3) Determine tactics needed to help make your strategy work. Bring in outside folks to help with very specific tasks as needed. Break every task into “bite-sized” chunks. Implement the tasks one at a time. Evaluate success one at a time. Each failed task is a learning experience. Each successful task improves morale.
(4) Don’t quit. If some team members get burned out, then replace them with fresh troops.
(5) Evaluate progress constantly. Identify areas of success and confirmed facts, and go back and question any “facts” that proved not to be correct. Never let your ego get in the way. Every plan needs to be revised when it is not working—but the key is to be honest about failure. (Most organizations fail at this because “managers” try to cover their rear ends when they fail. To prevent this you do not punish failure, you reward people for identifying it and teaching others about what went wrong.)
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The Trump team _totally_ gets all of this—and that is why they can do “impossible” things.
Menominee County, Dane County and Milwaukee County named
Much worse than: Oswald killed Kennedy and acted alone, UFOs are really reflections of the planet Venus, Obama was a legal resident of the United States at birth, K Harris is black and was natural born.
Then, it goes to the state legislatures to determine the election
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Each state gets one representative. CA is equal to all other states.
gets the attention of the legislature that there is massive fraud and maybe they need to seat the Trump electors rather than the electors for cheatem Joe.
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there is no stopping them from doing that anyway - SCOTUS said “faithless electors” stands. WI - other than Governor - is GOP controlled
“No court is going to agree with the exclusion of this many votes, no matter how bogus they might appear.”
If they follow the law they will. Then it would be excluding illegal ballots, not “votes”
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Milwaukee had some precinct with 200% ‘turnout’.
Yup. one state, one vote.
It should end up about 27 for Trump and the rest for Beijing Biden.
What isnt clear to me is the Vice President. That goes to the Senate-if I remember right.
Does PR, DC et all get a vote too - that seems unclear?
Some states had elections that don't have this sort of taint. Those stand. If SCOTUS renders decisions that affect outcome of election contests, it will be on a state-by-state basis. Up to Congress to deal with the resulting mess, if there is one.
12th Amendment to the US Constitution is clear on this point.
There is a set deadline for Electors which “has to go forward”. regarless of the other laws which the Dems changed without authority.Seems the Dems just change the rules they don’t like.
The narrative in this suit is throw out all the votes, legal and illegal. Not going to happen.
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