'Provide some cover': New Eastman emails shed light on his push to overturn Biden's win
Source: Politico
This recalculation, he posited in an exchange with one GOP state lawmaker, would help provide some cover for Republicans to replace Joe Bidens electors from the state with a slate of pro-Trump electors, part of a last-ditch bid to overturn the election results.
Per the exchange, Eastman suggested that GOP legislators could simply cite their concerns with Pennsylvanias absentee ballot procedures and then use historical data to discount each candidates totals by a prorated amount based on the absentee percentage those candidates otherwise received.
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The exchange was part of a batch of emails obtained from the University of Colorado, where Eastman worked as a visiting professor at the time he was helping Trump strategize ways to remain in power. The emails were obtained via public records requests by the Colorado Ethics Institute, which sent them along to the Jan. 6 select committee last month. Its unclear whether the select committee had previously obtained these emails which are available via public records requests or whether they are in receipt of the Colorado groups files.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/10/eastman-emails-pennsylvania-legislators-biden-00031668
LiberalFighter
(50,828 posts)karynnj
(59,501 posts)I remember feeling very frustrated in 2000, knowing that Gore really did deserve the lion's share of the double marked Gore/Buchanan votes. Having worked for decades doing statistical/analytical analysis for AT&T / Bell Labs, if this were a corporate problem and the goal was to fix what was a problem with Palm County's votes - leading to a large number being thrown out, it would have been incredibly easy to use the list of people in those affected areas that voted and taken a large sample (hell, even a census) asking them who they intended to vote for.
However, where this would be a far more accurate estimate of what those voters intended to do - thwarted in many cases by poorly designed ballots, it was clear that what mattered was not an accurate estimate of how the voters intended to vote, but the number of "valid" votes for each candidate. (It did not even matter that Buchanan, seen as an anti Semite by a large proportion of the many elderly Jews living in that area, himself mocked the idea of Jews for Buchanan.
Not to mention, Eastman ignored that Covid led to many people voting absentee.
vanlassie
(5,668 posts)pandr32
(11,574 posts)There needs to be consequences.
ultralite001
(894 posts)In a link provided in the Eastman Colorado emails, John Eastman testifies at Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing 12/03/2020 regarding election improprieties...
[link:https://livestream.com/accounts/26021522/events/8730585/videos/214364915|]
The entire stream is 06:50:32 long... worth the watch...
Eastman's Zoom testimony begins at 04:19:46... [Eastman states his testimony begins at 4:54:00]...
Rudy Guiliani makes a personal appearance at 00:44:23... ["I represent President Trump and Jenna Ellis..."]
Matters presented during the video are quite disturbing... Mind boggling how much time, effort, and $$$
RTump allies spent in concocting these schemes to maintain the RTumpian dynasty... The depth of the
bulls**t cannot be adequately measured...
ultralite001
(894 posts)makes my skin crawl...
That is all...