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PENNSYLVANIA
BIDEN MAJORITY TRUMP NEEDS TO RETURN: 47,620
On Monday, the Trump campaign presented its great opportunity to revoke all mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, claiming that the Democratic and Republican counties did not administer them in the same way; instances of fraud; and that electoral observers could not see them counted. On that basis, they say, the results should not be certified on November 23.
The case faces an uphill fight, and on Thursday, the largest law firm involved in it, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, resigned.
The Supreme Court has already allowed ballots to be cast by mail in Pennsylvania, and the claim by election watchers that they had not counted them had earlier failed when a Trump attorney agreed last Friday that a ‘non-zero number’ of Republicans he had watched the counting in Philadelphia.
The new lawsuit did not provide real evidence of fraud. It included a claim by an Erie postman that he had overheard his supervisors talking about the illegal feedback of the ballots; he was said to have retracted that claim when questioned by United States postal inspectors.
The Trump campaign last Wednesday filed a motion to intervene in a pending case before the United States Supreme Court challenging a decision by the state’s highest court that allowed election officials to count mail-in ballots postmarked on the day of Tuesday’s elections that were delivered until Friday.
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ordered county boards of elections in the state Friday night to separate ballots received by mail after 8 p.m. EST on Election Day.
Pennsylvania election officials have said those ballots were already separated.
The judges previously ruled that there was not enough time to decide the merits of the case before Election Day, but indicated they could re-examine it later.
Alito, along with conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, said in a written opinion that there was a “high probability” that the Pennsylvania court’s decision violated the US Constitution.
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Secretary Kathy Boockvar has said late ballots are a small proportion of the overall vote in the state.
Rudy Giuliani released a “witness” to his claims, a Republican election observer, on Saturday, but the man, Daryl Brooks, has not been listed in any legal documents. He was previously convicted of exposing himself to underage girls.
ARIZONA
BIDEN MAJORITY TRUMP NEEDS TO RETURN: 12,813. THE COUNT IS LEGALLY IMPOSSIBLE
The Trump campaign said last Saturday that it had filed a lawsuit in Arizona, alleging that the state’s most populous county incorrectly rejected the votes cast on Election Day by some voters.
The lawsuit, filed in state Superior Court in Maricopa County, said poll workers told some voters to press a button after a machine detected an “overvoting.”
The campaign said the decision ignored voters’ choices in those races, and the lawsuit suggested that those votes could be “determinative” in the outcome of the presidential race.
It’s a modification of an earlier lawsuit that was filed and later dropped on the grounds that Trump voters were given markers to mark their ballots and claiming this made them more prone to errors. The ‘sharpie-gate’ claims have no basis in fact, says the Arizona secretary of state.
On Thursday the 12th, a judge attacked the affidavits produced to support the case as ‘spam’ and a lawyer for Trump said they did not allege fraud in any way.
NEVADA
BIDEN MAJORITY TRUMP NEEDS TO RETURN: 36,726
A voter, a member of the media and two candidate campaigns sued the Nevada secretary of state and other officials to prevent the use of a signature verification system in populated Clark County and to provide public access to the count of votes.
A federal judge rejected the request on Friday, saying there was no evidence the county was doing anything illegal.
So far no new lawsuits have been filed.
Trump campaign officials have also claimed evidence that non-residents have voted but have not filed a lawsuit.
GEORGIA
BIDEN MOST TRUMP NEEDS TO RETURN: 14,111
The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in state court in Chatham County Wednesday alleging late-arriving ballots were improperly mixed with valid ballots, and asked a judge to order that late-arriving ballots be separated and are not counted.
The case was dismissed Thursday. No new lawsuits have been filed. The state is going to do a recount.
The two Republican senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, asked the Republican secretary of state to resign, citing irregularities in the elections on Monday. They offered no evidence and he scoffed: ‘That’s not going to happen.’
MICHIGAN
BIDEN MAJORITY TRUMP NEEDS TO RETURN: 148,645
On Monday the 9th, Trump filed a federal case alleging fraud and then a separate lawsuit that votes not be certified on November 23.
In the first case, a witness, possibly confused by Trump’s lawyers, claimed that another person had told them that the mystery tickets arrived late in vehicles with out-of-state plates and that they were all for Biden; that they had seen voters trained to vote for Biden; and that they were told to process the ballots without any control.
It also included election observers and “challengers” who said they couldn’t get close enough to see what was happening.
A federal judge has yet to issue an answer on when and how it will be investigated. The Trump campaign also resubmitted the same case to the wrong federal court on Thursday for no apparent reason.
The Trump campaign last Wednesday filed a lawsuit in Michigan to stop vote counting in the state. The lawsuit alleged that election observers for the campaign were denied “meaningful access” to the vote count, in addition to access to surveillance video footage of the polls.
On Thursday the 6th, Michigan Claims Court Judge Cynthia Stephens dismissed the case, saying there was no legal basis or evidence to stop voting and grant requests.
US POSTAL SERVICE
The US Postal Service said about 1,700 ballots in Pennsylvania had been identified at processing facilities during two raids Thursday and were being turned over to election officials, according to a court file early Friday.
The Postal Service said 1,076 ballots had been found at its Philadelphia Distribution and Processing Center. About 300 were found at the Pittsburgh processing center, 266 at a Lehigh Valley facility, and others at other Pennsylvania processing centers.
Federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington is overseeing a lawsuit from Vote Forward, the NAACP, and advocates for the Latino community.
Sullivan on Thursday ordered twice-daily sweeps of Postal Service facilities that serve states with extended deadlines for receiving ballots.
The judge plans to hold a state conference on Monday.
