This is Trump’s demand – VG

More than a week after the election, the trial continues in the states that tipped the outcome in favor of Joe Biden. Trump is still confident that he will succeed in court. At the top of his Twitter account, he has posted a message: WE WILL WIN!

But the allegations of voter fraud are being refuted by US election officials, according to The New York Times. The newspaper has contacted all the states, and from both the Democratic and Republican states the answer is the same: the cheating accusations are rejected.

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– People have a great ability to invent things about choices that are not true. Conspiracy theories, rumors and myths abound, said Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who has ultimate responsibility for conducting the election in Ohio, a state where Trump won all 18 elections.

So far, Trump has not won in court, but that is far from over: from night to Wednesday the news came that the Trump campaign will deliver another lawsuit in the overturned state of Michigan, where they ask that the result of the elections are not officially announced to the state. They are sure that it was not voted “illegally”.

Around the same time, there were reports that a lawsuit had been dismissed in the state of Nevada. And therefore it will probably continue for several days: new demands come up as regularly as old ones are rejected.

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Expert: – Not serious enough

Private law professor and expert on the relationship between the American rule of law and democracy, Geir Stenseth of the University of Oslo, explains to VG that the American judiciary prides itself on its independence.

– At the federal level, there is considerable prestige in not being pressured. Nor will the judiciary be overwhelmed by a massive barrage of lawsuits, says Stenseth.

He points out that several judges below the state level are running for election and therefore it is conceivable to take this into account.

– The law is not magic, you have to have a real case. Although some irregularities have been pointed out, it is so small that it won’t affect the bottom line, Stenseth believes.

He previously explained to VG that if Trump’s team is successful in bringing the case to the Supreme Court, then it can be difficult to pass. This is because the votes have already been counted and therefore must be rejected due to electoral procedure conditions.

– The Trump campaign has likely waited for Supreme Court support that mail-in votes received after Election Day are unconstitutional. But now it appears that this applies to about 10,000 of the votes in Pennsylvania, that is, not enough to change the outcome. So the Supreme Court will most likely consider that it is not in “legal interest” to try the case.

This is the status of the lawsuits in the six states where Trump expects the judiciary to change the outcome:

Pennsylvania

This is the state that tipped the election in favor of Biden. Here it was clear in advance that there would be a dispute: the Republican state authorities decided that mail-in votes could not be counted until Election Day, and then only after all ordinary votes.

Trump’s leadership since election night was slowly but surely consumed as the mail-in votes were recorded. The day after the election, Trump went to court to give Republican observers access to Pennsylvania polling stations and won.

When observers thought they had little information, they went to federal court to stop the count. Failure.

But Trump’s team has gained support for votes that came after the deadline to stay separate from the other votes, writes ABC News. Whether these will be rejected has yet to be decided, but the outcome cannot be changed anyway.

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Trump’s latest lawsuit in Pennsylvania was filed Tuesday night, stating that mail-in ballots should be rejected for “equality before the law.” The argument is that it was more difficult for those who voted on election day.

Michigan

Biden won Michigan by 147,000 votes, but as in Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign claims that electoral fraud was committed by counting votes by mail.

At least four different lawsuits have been filed, two have already been dismissed. These were, according to a review in The Washington Post, that the ballots were manually corrected without the presence of observers.

Ballot papers that may have stains on, say, a cup of coffee, but where it is clear who was voted on, can be entered manually in Michigan. However, the allegations that this was done illegally were described by the judge as “unfounded speculation”.

The Michigan state government has also rejected claims that ballot dates have been returned and explained that for postal ballots, the date on the envelope must be valid.

Wisconsin

Another state in the so-called “rust belt” that has apparently been recovered by Joe Biden. But given that Biden’s leadership is less than one percent of the vote, this is a state where Trump’s team believes it can win in court.

A claim for a recount has already been announced, and that claim will probably win out, because there is very little difference.

But the state has a law that states that the 72 constituencies must first conduct an independent review, which they have until November 17 to complete. Only after that can Trump’s attorneys register his claim.

A recount in Wisconsin will come at a significant cost to the Trump campaign: the state allows the recount if there is less than 1 percent difference, but the complaining candidate must pay for it himself, unless there is only less than 0, 25 percent difference.

So far, the percentage is 0.6. That means a recount will cost several million dollars for the Trump campaign.

Georgia

A state of inflection where Biden surprisingly leads, but where the election result is so uniform that it is time for a recount. The state’s 16 voters have yet to be distributed.

According to the AP news agency, it appears that the Trump campaign will have an impact on having votes re-counted by hand. Only 12,000 votes separate the two candidates.

The Trump campaign has also gone to court to disapprove a small number of Chatham County votes, according to an eyewitness who claims that late-arriving ballots were counted alongside approved ballots.

But this lawsuit has been rejected in court and still applies to a small number of votes.

Arizona

Biden’s leadership in Arizona is so slim that the state’s eleven voters are not yet on the list.

This weekend, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit to show that thousands of Republican voters had their votes rejected. The first round of the court ended with just 180 votes. The case resurfaces on Thursday.

The state has a law that says that if a ballot is rejected because it has a cross for more than one candidate, and therefore it is a so-called “vote,” then that voter will be able to vote again.

One conspiracy theory is that ballots in which voters have used a marker pen of the popular brand “Sharpie” have been rejected for “overvoting”, without the voters being able to vote again.

Nevada

In Nevada, there have been several lawsuits, and one of them deserves a closer look:

Republicans tried to pressure Clark County, the county with the most Democratic voters, to stop using a machine that automatically verified signatures on ballots. It was claimed that it could be about 10,000 incorrect votes, but it ended with a case under review.

According to local newspaper The Nevada Independent, blind voter Jill Stokke was reported to have claimed her ballot had been stolen. But a new manual review showed that the signature on the ballot was his, and when he was still given the opportunity to vote again, he refused.

According to conservative Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham, the Trump campaign has “explosive evidence” in the form of an anonymous warning in Nevada that allegedly saw fake ballots stuffed in envelopes outside a car marked “Biden & Harris.”

SOURCES:

The New York Times: The Times called officials in every state: no evidence of voter fraud

The Washington Post: Here are the allegations of election irregularities from the Republican Party and the Trump campaign. So far, none have been tested.

ABC News: Election 2020: a look at the electoral demands of the Trump campaign and its position

Al-Jazeera: Donald Trump electoral demands in the United States: where are things?

The Guardian: Trump’s Election Demands: Where Are Things?