Donald Trump’s campaign failed to produce evidence of voice-by-post fraud in Pennsylvania, after a federal judge issued the order, which was given a 524-page direction by the Guardian.
The order came from U.S. District Judge Nicholas Ranjan, a Trump nominee, earlier this month amid a lawsuit in Pennsylvania over various voting policies. The Trump campaign proposes a case to block the widespread use of official ballot papers in the state at locations other than an election office, and to employ supervisors in counties other than those in which they live.
The campaign also wants to block election officials from counting post-in votes if a voter forgets to place their post-in vote in a secrecy envelope in the mailing envelope. The campaign argued in court that current practices would lead to voter fraud without these changes.
Ranjan last week commissioned the campaign to hand over his evidence of the prevalence of fraud in Pennsylvania, including dropbox boxing and postal voting. While the Trump campaign cited a handful of email-in-ballot fraud cases in its original complaint, the campaign did not turn much evidence of ongoing fraud into its partially reduced response. Certain documents in the submission were kept confidential and withheld from the Guardian.
The campaign also provided no evidence of fraud specifically linked to dropboxes or emails. The submission was first reported by Type Investigations. Several surveys and surveys have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.
The submission of the campaign consisted of half a dozen news articles. Two of the stories deal with the conviction of Domenick DeMuro, a former Philadelphia election judge who pleaded guilty earlier this year to illegal bribery and voting at the ballot box.
A third news story highlighted the belief of Ozzy Myers, a former congressman who overthrows DeMuro. DeMuro and Meyers are both Democrats.
The campaign also included a 2018 news release about four election workers who in 2017 were accused of intimidating and harassing voters at polling stations. It also included a news story about legislative hearings earlier this year that cited two Republican lawmakers who asked questions about how to prevent fraud in voting after mailing, but provided no evidence of it.
The final piece in the document was a May 20 Fox News story that marked a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative group, claiming that 800,000 unreachable voters could be on the state’s ballot box. The group has a reputation for distorting data to make inaccurate claims about voter roles. Pennsylvania and the counties submitted say the claims of Judicial Watch are inaccurate.
The submission also includes several requests for public records filed in recent weeks with local election officials in Pennsylvania seeking information about the state’s vote-by-mail process, including security protocols in place of dropboxes and how absent ballots are. be processed.
John Powers, an attorney at the Law Commission on Civil Rights Under Law, who is serving on behalf of the Trump campaign on behalf of civil rights groups, said the evidence the campaign produced was “paltry.”
“The campaign has not provided significant evidence that voter fraud is a widespread problem in Pennsylvania, or that there was intentional abuse in the state’s primary election in June,” he said. “There are certainly several explosive, cunning claims in the complaint that are simply not borne out by the facts or what has been produced. Based on what we’ve seen so far, it looks like a lot of hot air. ”
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
The difficulty in restricting dropboxes comes as many election officials are expanding the practice as an alternative for voters to return safely if they do not have to rely on the United States Postal Service. Trump has also rebelled against voice-by-post, a process experts expect Americans will use in record numbers this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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