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Trump has just 9 days to overturn election loss as lawsuits claiming voter fraud continue to get shot down

Trump's only remaining hope now is to convince Republican-controlled state legislators to appoint pro-Trump electors who will determine the winning candidates
UPDATED NOV 15, 2020
Donald Trump (Getty Images)
Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Donald Trump is on a tight deadline to implement his litigation plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election results of November 3. This is primarily due to the fact that key battleground states crucial to the results are set to certify Democratic rival Joe Biden as the winner within nine days.

News networks and social media called the election for Biden shortly after November 3, but over a week later, Trump and his allies are yet to concede. Their argument is that the results were tampered with by illegal voter fraud, although they have failed to produce evidence in court and all their legal challenges so far have failed.

The battleground states of Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania were all crucial in Biden's projected win, especially the historically Republican Georgia and all its 16 electoral votes. However, with above 90 percent of precincts reporting, Biden is ahead of the sitting president by a margin of just 0.3% which equals to shortly above 14,000 votes.

Georgia law states that the trailing candidate can request a recount should the victory margin be less than 0.5 percentage. Their law also mandates one race in the general elected audited by hand to check the credibility of machines counting ballots.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger did the auditing and claimed the tight margin called for a full hand count of ballots, but historically speaking, recounts usually overturn several hundred votes, at max, which leaves chances of reversing the 14000 Biden votes into Trump doubtful.

Since then, Trump has taken to Twitter to slam the Republican leadership of the state, including Raffensperger and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. Accusing the two of facilitating fraudulent voting, Trump wrote: "The Consent Decree signed by the Georgia Secretary of State, with the approval of Governor @BrianKempGA, at the urging of @staceyabrams, makes it impossible to check & match signatures on ballots and envelopes, etc. They knew they were going to cheat. Must expose real signatures! What are they trying to hide. They know, and so does everyone else. EXPOSE THE CRIME!"



 

Georgia attorney L Lin Wood also filed a lawsuit on Friday, November 13, that names Raffensperger as a defendant and claims he "unilaterally, and without the approval or direction of the Georgia General Assembly, changed the process for handling absentee ballots in Georgia, including those case in the general election," reports the Daily Mail.

In response to the lawsuit, Jordan Fuchs, Raffensperger's deputy, called it all a 'Silly baseless claim — grasping" in a statement. He added: "Signature match is intact and the General Assembly passed legislation to allow voters who failed to include a signature time to add one. Fulton County only had one rejected ballot in 2018 and now they have thousands. We strengthened signature match, and will continue to do so, period."

Michigan Trump supporters had also requested to block certification of votes and appoint an independent auditor in Detroit after the county voted strongly in favor of Biden, but a state court rejected the plea.

"It would be an unprecedented exercise of judicial activism for this Court to stop the certification process of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers," wrote Timothy Kenny, chief judge of the Third Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan, referring to the county that includes Detroit. Wayne County denied the lawsuit's claims of fraudulent voting, with the judge writing: "Plaintiffs’ interpretation of events is incorrect and not credible."

The Trump campaign itself filed a similar lawsuit on Wednesday, November 11, in the US District Court in the Western District of Michigan. They alleged that Republican poll challengers were harassed and mandated protocol that wasn't exercised on Democratic poll challengers. Three voters in northeastern Wisconsin have also filed lawsuits calling for the exclusion of ballots from Milwaukee, Dane and Menominee counties - all three responsible for Biden nabbing the state.

"Election workers, overwhelmed by the sudden flood of mailed ballots, have 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 said. Once again, top election officials said there was no evidence to back up the claims.

The president's campaign has scored a minor victory in Pennsylvania, where a state court ruled that by allowing voters extra days to fix mismatched signatures in their mail-in ballots, the secretary of state overstepped her authority. This was only a small number of votes though, and Biden is still ahead in Pennsylvania by 62,000 votes with 98 percent of the total votes counted.

Trump's lawyers ultimately lost when the state, however, ruled that absentee ballots received after Election Day would still be counted.

Trump's only remaining hope now is to convince Republican-controlled state legislators to appoint pro-Trump electors. This would mean defying the popular vote, and Republican lawmakers in four key states — Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — have all refused to interfere with the selection of electors whose votes will determine the candidate's victory.

The move to do so would not only violate the state law, but also the vote of the people, as has been pointed out by several people.

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