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struggle4progress

(118,379 posts)
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 06:32 AM Nov 2020

Seven campaign lawsuits dropped or denied Friday

Saturday, November 14th 2020, 12:01 PM PST

... The claims, involving absentee ballots and allegations of fraud, were filed in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Michigan ...

... The Trump campaign dropped a recount lawsuit in Arizona ...

In Michigan, a judge denied allegations of fraud in Detroit ...

In Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign tried to have .. 9,000 ballots thrown out .. but judges ruled to have those ballots counted. A similar case in Pennsylvania ..was also denied ...

This comes after the Nevada Court of Appeals dismissed the ballot count case in Clark County ...

https://www.ktvn.com/story/42913883/seven-trump-campaign-lawsuits-dropped-or-denied

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Seven campaign lawsuits dropped or denied Friday (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2020 OP
Attorney backing Trump sues to stop Georgia election results struggle4progress Nov 2020 #1
I thought the whole reason Georgia was recounting their votes was because Trump patricia92243 Nov 2020 #3
I think Georgia's "recount" is actually a long-scheduled "audit" to check procedures and equipment struggle4progress Nov 2020 #4
There are no grounds for these lawsuits ... Iliyah Nov 2020 #2

struggle4progress

(118,379 posts)
1. Attorney backing Trump sues to stop Georgia election results
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 06:34 AM
Nov 2020

BY CELINE CASTRONUOVO - 11/14/20 03:47 PM EST

A prominent Atlanta attorney who supports President Trump filed a lawsuit Friday against Georgia's secretary of state and election board in an effort to stop the certification of 2020 election results.

Lin Wood, best known for his defense of Richard Jewell in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics bomb threat case, announced on Twitter on Friday that he had filed a lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) and election officials in which he argued that a March 2020 settlement with the Democratic Party was unconstitutional and therefore invalidated absentee ballots cast in the 2020 election ...

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/526002-atlanta-attorney-backing-trump-sues-to-stop-georgia-election-results

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. There are no grounds for these lawsuits ...
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 08:09 AM
Nov 2020

at some point in time the judges should consider sanctions against these attorneys. It is obvious an abuse of the legal system and abuse against the states and the American people.

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