[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/15/20

Tue Dec 15 07:30:13 PST 2020

Senator McConnell Recognizes Joe Biden as President-Elect<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119686>
Posted on December 15, 2020 7:27 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119686> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This<https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1338864864379322368> is a very important step, as I argued back on November 8 at Slate<https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/trump-concede-threat-legitimacy-biden.html>, when McConnell should have done this:
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

“Texas v. Pennsylvania: What’s The Deal With That? And what to make of the mysterious separate ‘statement’ of Justices Alito and Thomas?”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119684>
Posted on December 15, 2020 7:22 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119684> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

David Lat blogs<https://davidlat.substack.com/p/texas-v-pennsylvania-whats-the-deal> on the “sort of<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119542>” question.
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Posted in Supreme Court<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

“Trump antagonizes Republicans with Georgia fundraising ploy”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119682>
Posted on December 15, 2020 7:20 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119682> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico:<https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/14/trump-republicans-georgia-fundraising-445207?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f109-dd93-ad7f-f90d0def0000&nlid=630318>

President Donald Trump couldn’t make it any clearer: He needs his supporters to fork over cash for the all-important Georgia Senate runoff elections.

“We MUST defend Georgia from the Dems!” he wrote in one recent text message. “I need YOU to secure a WIN in Georgia,” he said in another. “Help us WIN both Senate races in Georgia & STOP Socialist Dems,” he pleaded a few days later.

There’s just one hitch: Trump’s new political machine is pocketing most of the dough — and the campaigns of the Georgia senators competing in the Jan. 5 races aren’t getting a cent.

Trump’s aggressive fundraising blitz appears to be devoted to helping the party defend Georgia’s two Senate seats and, with them, the Senate majority. But the fine print shows that most of the proceeds are going toward Trump’s newly launched PAC, which he plans to use to fund his future political activities. Only a fraction is going to the Republican National Committee, which is investing $20 million into the runoffs.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

“Georgia to audit one county’s signatures on ballot envelopes”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119680>
Posted on December 15, 2020 7:09 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119680> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP:<https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-audit-one-countys-signatures-215343636.html>

Georgia’s secretary of state on Monday announced an audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one county, but the outcome of the presidential race in the state will not change as a result of the audit.

“Now that the signature matching has been attacked again and again with no evidence, I feel we need to take steps to restore confidence in our elections,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said during a news conference as he announced the audit that will focus on Cobb County in suburban Atlanta.
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Posted in absentee ballots<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=53>
“Stephen Miller’s Soviets: From Alternative Facts to Alternate Electors”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119678>
Posted on December 15, 2020 7:03 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119678> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Michael Dorf:<http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2020/12/stephen-millers-soviets-from.html>

Yesterday, Stephen Miller crammed himself into the clown-car of sycophants making absurd claims on behalf of the would-be Clown-Tyrant-King Donald I. With a claim as deranged and dangerous as any to have oozed out of the skull of Rudy Giuliani or to have emerged from the depths where Sidney Powell’s Kraken lurks, the immigrant-hating Goebbels look-alike<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/5/1687333/-Trump-s-Stephen-Miller-and-Hitler-s-Joseph-Goebbels-are-chillingly-similar> announced on FoxNews<https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1338484357389017090?s=20> that in multiple states that Trump lost, “alternate slates” of electors were getting together to vote for Trump anyway.

Students of history will recall that such alternative assemblies have played a key role in revolutionary challenges to the established order, usually stating some pretext of a claim to lawful authority. For example, the 576 French citizens who took what came to be known as the “Tennis Court Oath” lacked the power to declare themselves the National Assembly under the rules of the ancien régime; they claimed authority in virtue of the fact that together they comprised all but one member of the Third Estate, barred from their ordinary meeting chamber by soldiers loyal to Louis XVI. Despite the self-described National Assembly’s weak claim to existing authority, its actions were followed in less than a month’s time by the storming of the Bastille. Louis XVI went to the guillotine three and a half years later.

Unlike the National Assembly circa 1789, Trump’s bogus electors are not even the rump of a lawful body. The Trump electors are more like the “soviets”–workers’ councils that played a role in the 1905 and 1917 Russian Revolutions despite initially having no legal claim to political power. If one were to rank these unlawful assemblies in order of most to least legitimate authority, the French National Assembly would outrank both the early soviets and the Trumpian alternate electors. But that ranking hardly matters. There is no threshold of legitimacy under the old regime that one must cross in order to establish a new one. The most dubious legal claims to power backed by unlawful force can generate regime change because, during a revolution, might makes right.

Will the Trump soviets succeed? That is likely a bridge too far even for the majority of House Republicans who signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in last week’s preposterous original jurisdiction case. Yet it would be a mistake to dismiss as absurd the threat posed by Trump, Giuliani, Miller, and the rest of these maniacal buffoons. From ancient times, many of history’s worst tyrants were men with few talents save ruthless ambition.

More to the immediate point, it is possible to imagine the likes of Representatives Mo Brooks, Jim Jordan, Louie Gohmert, and perhaps a handful of the other Trumpiest members of Congress not only voting to reject Joe Biden’s electors from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsyvlania, and Wisconsin but actually to accept the alternate electors despite the fact that their ballots will arrive at the Capitol bearing the imprimatur of no state authority save what they have proclaimed for themselves. Should that occur and should at least one ambitious worm of a Senator–Rand Paul? Ron Johnson? Ted Cruz<http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2013/04/the-resurrection-of-second-amendment.html>?–go along, Congress will be required to go through the motions of evaluating whether the votes cast by the duly appointed Biden electors or those cast by the Trump “alternate slate” are real.

If there is a glimmer of sanity in what Miller is proposing, it’s that in his FoxNews rant, he suggested that he doesn’t think the alternate electors have authority on their own, but that they needed to declare themselves in the event that between now and January 6, some lawfully established authority (such as a state legislature or state or federal court) strips the Biden electors of their authority and confers it on the Trump electors. Trump’s least authoritarian defenders can point to the 1960 precedent of the Democratic electors in Hawaii–who met and voted for Kennedy without state authorization while a competing slate of Republican electors for Nixon was certified.

However, legal developments since 1960, in particular Bush v. Gore<https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/00-949>, have changed the landscape. In that case, the Supreme Court relied on the Electoral Count Act’s safe harbor provision<https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/5> to stop any further recounts or state changes at a point that we already passed a week ago in the current election cycle. Maybe the Court was wrong in Bush v. Gore. Citing the 1960 Hawaii case, Justice Stevens objected to the Court’s conclusion that the recounting had to stop in advance of Florida’s certification, but to state the obvious, he was in dissent when he made that point.

Meanwhile, there are crucial factual differences between Hawaii in 1960 and the current situation. The 1960 presidential vote in Hawaii was a dead heat in which a recount and litigation were ongoing when the Electoral College met. Indeed, Kennedy had already overtaken Nixon in the Hawaii recount by that point. Thus, the Republican Governor of Hawaii ultimately sought to replace the original certification of the Nixon electors with the Kennedy electors, based on the recount. And Nixon himself–as presiding Vice President–approved of the replacement. If the Democratic Governors of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are presented with evidence that Trump and his collaborators have somehow failed to find anywhere, and if they find that evidence persuasive that Trump really won their states, then perhaps they can convert Trump’s ersatz electors into genuine ones based on the 1960 Hawaii precedent. But because that won’t happen, the votes cast by Trump’s alternate electors will remain meaningless.

Or will they? As of yesterday, Miller wasn’t claiming that the alternate electors have any power on their own, only if some authority confers it on them. That was yesterday. Anyone who thinks Trump and his lackeys will be restrained by anything but force has not been paying attention. Suppose, as seems extraordinarily likely, that no judicial or state legislative action between now and January 6 confers any lawful authority on the alternate slates of electors. Do you think that Trump, Giuliani, Miller, Brooks, Jordan, and their restive base will then throw in the towel? Remember how they just wanted time for their cases to play out in court? And then when those failed, how they exerted pressure (backed by violent threats from their supporters) on local and state elected officials? And then when that failed, how they purported to name alternate slates–but supposedly only to keep their legal options only?

There is no bottom. When no lawfully established authority confers power on Trump’s alternate electors, the ground may shift again. On January 6, we can expect some number of Trump collaborators in Congress to point to the language of 3 U.S. Code § 15<https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/15> prescribing the electoral-vote-counting procedure for handling “papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes” and treating the self-important papers filed by the Trump alternate slates as just such purported certificates….
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“To Fix the Electoral College, Change the Way Its Votes Are Awarded”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119676>
Posted on December 15, 2020 7:00 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119676> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Kevin Johnson Governing oped.<https://www.governing.com/now/To-Fix-the-Electoral-College-Change-the-Way-Its-Votes-Are-Awarded.html?utm_term=READ%20MORE&utm_campaign=To%20Fix%20the%20Electoral%20College%2C%20Change%20the%20Way%20Its%20Votes%20Are%20Awarded&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email>
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Posted in electoral college<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>

Watch President-Elect Biden Rip Trump and Republicans Who Have Not Recognized the Legitimacy of the Election (Includes Transcript)<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119673>
Posted on December 14, 2020 5:18 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119673> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Watch here.<https://www.c-span.org/video/?507284-1/president-elect-biden-addresses-nation-electoral-college-vote>

From the CSPAN rough transcript:

TOGETHER, VICE PRESIDENT ELECT HARRIS AND I EARNED 306 ELECTORAL VOTES, WELL EXCEEDING THE 270 VOTES NEEDED TO SECURE VICTORY. 306 ELECTORAL VOTES IS THE SAME NUMBER OF ELECTORAL VOTES THAT DONALD TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENT PENCE RECEIVED IN 2016. AT THE TIME, PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLS THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE TALLY A LANDSLIDE. BY HIS OWN STANDARDS, THESE NUMBERS REPRESENT A CLEAR VICTORY THAN AND I RESPECTIVELY SUGGEST THEY DO SO NOW. IF ANYONE DIDN’T KNOW BEFORE, THEY KNOW NOW, WHAT BEATS DEEP IN THE HEARTS OF AMERICAN PEOPLE IS THIS, DEMOCRACY, THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD, TO HAVE YOUR VOTE COUNTED, TO CHOOSE LEADERS OF THIS NATION, TO GOVERN OURSELVES. IN AMERICA, POLITICIANS DON’T TAKE POWER. PEOPLE GRANT POWER TO THEM. THE FLAME OF DEMOCRACY WAS LIT IN THIS NATION A LONG TIME AGO. WE NOW KNOW NOTHING, NOT EVEN A PANDEMIC OR AN ABUSE OF POWER CAN EXTINGUISH THAT FLAME. AND AS THE PEOPLE KEPT IT AFLAME, SO DID COURAGEOUS STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS AND ELECTION WORKERS. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY WORKS BECAUSE AMERICA MAKES IT WORK AT A LOCAL LEVEL. ONE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS WE SAW THIS YEAR WAS THAT EVERYDAY AMERICANS, OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENTS, DEMONSTRATED ABSOLUTE COURAGE. THEY SHOWED A DEEP AND UNWAVERING FAITH IN AND A COMMITMENT TO THE LAW. THEY DID THEIR DUTY IN THE FACE OF A PANDEMIC. AND THEY COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT GIVE CREDENCE TO WHAT THEY KNEW WAS NOT TRUE. THEY KNEW THIS ELECTION WAS OVERSEEN. IT WAS OVERSEEN BY THEM. IT WAS HONEST, FREE, AND FAIR. THEY SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES AND THEY WOULDN’T BE BULLIED INTO SAYING ANYTHING DIFFERENT. IT WAS TRULY REMARKABLE BECAUSE SO MANY OF THESE PATRIOTIC AMERICANS WERE SUBJECT TO SO MUCH ENORMOUS POLITICAL PRESSURE, VERBAL ABUSE, EVEN THREATS OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE. WE ALL WISH THAT OUR FELLOW AMERICANS IN THESE POSITIONS WILL ALWAYS SHOW SUCH COMMITMENT TO FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS. IT IS MY SINCERE HOPE WE NEVER AGAIN SEE ANYONE SUBJECTED TO THE KIND OF THREATS AND ABUSE WE SAW IN THIS ELECTION. SIMPLY UNCONSCIONABLE. WE OWE THESE PUBLIC SERVANTS A DEBT OF GRATITUDE. THEY DIDN’T SEEK THE SPOTLIGHT. OUR DEMOCRACY SURVIVED BECAUSE OF THEM. WHICH IS PROOF ONCE MORE THAT IT IS EVERYDAY AMERICANS, INFUSED WITH HONOR, CHARACTER, AND DECENCY, DRIVING THE HEART OF THIS NATION. IN THIS ELECTION, THEIR INTEGRITY WAS MATCHED BY THE STRENGTH, INDEPENDENCE, AND INTEGRITY OF OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM. IN AMERICA, WHEN QUESTIONS ARE RAISED ABOUT THE LEGITIMACY OF AN ELECTION, THOSE QUESTIONS ARE RESOLVED THROUGH LEGAL PROCESSES. THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED HERE. THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN BROUGHT DOZENS AND DOZENS OF LEGAL CHALLENGES TO CONTEST THE RESULT. THEY WERE HEARD AGAIN AND AGAIN. AND EACH OF THE TIMES THEY WERE HEARD, THEY WERE FOUND TO BE WITHOUT MERIT. TIME AND AGAIN, PRESIDENT TRUMP’S LAWYERS PRESENT ARGUMENTS TO STATE OFFICIALS, STATE LEGISLATURES, AND ULTIMATELY TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, TWICE. THEY ARE HEARD BY MORE THAN 80 JUDGES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY AND IN EVERY CASE, NO CAUSE OR EVIDENCE WAS FOUND TO REVERSE OR QUESTION OR DISPUTE THE RESULTS. A FEW STATES WENT FOR RECOUNTS. ALL ACCOUNTS WERE CONFIRMED. RESULTS IN GEORGIA WERE COUNTED THREE TIMES. DIDN’T CHANGE THE OUTCOME. RECOUNT CONDUCTED IN WISCONSIN ACTUALLY SAW OUR MARGIN GROW. THE MARGIN WE HAD IN MICHIGAN WAS 14 TIMES THE MARGIN PRESIDENT WON THAT STATE BY FOUR YEARS AGO. OUR MARGIN IN PENNSYLVANIA WAS NEARLY TWICE THE SIZE OF THE TRUMP MARGIN. AND YET NONE OF THIS HAS STOPPED BASELESS CLAIMS ABOUT THE LEGITIMACY OF THE RESULTS. EVEN MORE STUNNING, 17 REPUBLICAN ATTORNEYS GENERAL AND 126 REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS ACTUALLY SIGNED ON TO THE LAWSUIT FILED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS. THAT LAWSUIT ASKED THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT TO REJECT THE CERTIFIED VOTE COUNTS IN GEORGIA, MICHIGAN, PENNSYLVANIA, AND WISCONSIN. THIS LEGAL MANEUVER WAS AN EFFORT BY ELECTED OFFICIALS TO TRY TO GET THE SUPREME COURT TO WIPE OUT THE VOTES OF MORE THAN 20 MILLION AMERICANS IN OTHER STATES. AND TO HAND THE PRESIDENCY TO A CANDIDATE WHO LOST THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, LOST THE POPULAR VOTE, AND LOST EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE STATES WHOSE VOTES THEY WERE TRYING TO REVERSE. IT IS A POSITION SO EXTREME, WE’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE. A POSITION THAT REFUSED TO RESPECT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, THE RULE OF LAW, AND TO HONOR OUR CONSTITUTION. THANKFULLY, A UNANIMOUS SUPREME COURT IMMEDIATELY AND COMPLETELY REJECTED THIS EFFORT. THE COURT SENT A CLEAR SIGNAL TO PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT THERE WOULD BE NO PART OF AN UNPRECEDENTED ASSAULT ON OUR DEMOCRACY. EVERY SINGLE AVENUE WAS MADE AVAILABLE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP TO CONTEST THE RESULTS. HE TOOK FULL ADVANTAGE OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THOSE. PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS DENIED NO COURSE OF ACTION HE WANTED TO TAKE. HE TOOK HIS CASE TO REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS, A REPUBLICAN SECRETARY OF STATE, REPUBLICAN STATE LEGISLATURES, REPUBLICAN APPOINTED JUDGES AT EVERY LEVEL. AND IN A CASE DECIDED AFTER THE SUPREME COURT SAID GO REJECTION, A JUDGE APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP ROAD, THIS COURT HAS ALLOWED THE PLAINTIFF THE CHANCE TO MAKE HIS CASE AND HE HAS LOST ON THE MERITS. END OF QUOTE. EVEN PRESIDENT’S OWN CYBERSECURITY CHIEF, OVERSEEING OUR ELECTIONS, SAID IT WAS THE MOST SECURE ELECTION IN AMERICAN HISTORY. AND SUMMARILY WAS LET GO. LET ME SAY IT AGAIN. HIS OWN CYBERSECURITY CHIEF OVERSEEING THE SELECTION SAID IT WAS THE MOST SECURE IN AMERICAN HISTORY. RESPECTING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS AT THE HEART OF OUR DEMOCRACY. EVEN WHEN WE FIND THOSE RESULTS HARD TO ACCEPT. BUT THAT IS THE OBLIGATION OF THOSE WHO TAKE A SWORN DUTY TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION. FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS A SITTING VICE PRESIDENT, IT WAS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO ANNOUNCE THE TALLY OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES IN A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS THAT VOTED TO ELECT DONALD TRUMP. I DID MY JOB. AND I’M PLEASED BUT NOT SURPRISED BY THE NUMBER OF MY FORMER COLLEAGUES IN THE REPUBLICAN SENATE WHO HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. I THANK THEM AND I’M CONVINCED WE CAN WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION ON MANY SUBJECTS. THAT IS THE DUTY OWED TO THE PEOPLE, TO OUR CONSTITUTION, TO OUR HISTORY. IN THIS BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA, DEMOCRACY PREVAILED. WE THE PEOPLE VOTED. FAITH IN OUR INSTITUTIONS HELD. THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTIONS REMAINS INTACT. NOW IT IS TIME TO TURN THE PAGE, TO UNITE, TO HEAL. AS I SAID IN THIS CAMPAIGN, I WILL BE PRESIDENT FOR ALL AMERICANS. I WILL WORK JUST AS HARD FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DIDN’T VOTE FOR ME AS I WILL FOR THOSE WHO DID. THERE IS URGENT WORK IN FRONT OF US. GETTING THIS PANDEMIC UNDER CONTROL AND GETTING THE NATION VACCINATED AGAINST THIS VIRUS, DELIVERING IMMEDIATE ECONOMIC HELP SO BADLY NEEDED BY SO MANY AMERICANS, AND BUILDING OUR ECONOMY BACK BETTER THAN IT EVER WAS. DOING SO, WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER, TO GIVE EACH OTHER A CHANCE, TO LOWER THE TEMPERATURE, AND MOST OF ALL, TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY AS FELLOW AMERICANS, TO SEE EACH OTHER, OUR PAIN, OUR STRUGGLES, OUR HOPES AND OUR DREAMS. WE ARE A GREAT NATION. WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE. WE COME FROM DIFFERENT PLACES, HOLD DIFFERENT BELIEFS, BUT WE SHARE IN COMMON A LOVE FOR THIS COUNTRY, A BELIEF IN ITS LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES. WE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAVE ALWAYS SET THE EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD FOR A PEACEFUL TRANSITION OF POWER. I KNOW THE TASK BEFORE US WON’T BE EASY. IT IS TEMPERED BY THE PAIN SO MANY OF US ARE FEELING TODAY. OUR NATION PASSED A GRIM MILESTONE. 300,000 DEATHS DUE TO THIS VIRUS. MY HEART GOES OUT TO EACH OF YOU IN THIS DARK WINTER OF THE PANDEMIC. ABOUT TO SPEND THE HOLIDAYS AND THE NEW YEAR WITH A BLACK HOLE IN YOUR HEART, WITHOUT THE ONES YOU LOVE AT YOUR SIDE. MY HEART GOES OUT TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE FALLEN ON HARD TIMES THROUGH NO FAULT OF YOUR OWN, UNABLE TO SLEEP AT NIGHT, STARING AT THE CEILING, WEIGHED DOWN BY THE WORRY OF WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING FOR YOU AND FOR YOUR FAMILY. BUT WE FACED DIFFICULT TIMES BEFORE. I KNOW WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS ONE TOGETHER. THAT IS HOW WE GET THROUGH IT TOGETHER. AS WE START THE HARD WORK TO BE DONE, MAY THIS MOMENT GIVE US THE STRENGTH TO REBUILD THIS HOUSE OF OURS UPON A ROCK THAT CAN NEVER BE WASHED AWAY. FOR WHERE THERE IS DISCORD, UNION. WHERE THERE IS DOUBT, FAITH. WHERE THERE IS DARKNESS, LIGHT. THIS IS WHO WE ARE AS A NATION. THIS IS THE AMERICA WE LOVE. AND THAT IS THE AMERICA WE ARE GOING TO BE. SO THANK YOU ALL. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY GOD PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND ALL OF THOSE WHO STAND WATCH OVER OUR DEMOCRACY. THANK YOU. [INAUDIBLE] THANKS FOR THE CONGRATULATIONS. APPRECIATE IT. (music)
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“As electoral college formalizes Biden’s win, Trump backers hold their own vote”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119671>
Posted on December 14, 2020 5:06 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119671> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo:<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-backers-electoral-college/2020/12/14/f0fcc59c-3e52-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html>

Republicans in six states won by President-elect Joe Biden held their own electoral college-style votes Monday for President Trump — hoping that future court decisions would throw out Biden’s votes and count the GOP ones instead.

These votes have no legal meaning, according to election law experts. The law only recognizes votes from electors chosen according to state law — which, in every one of these states, is the Democratic electors.

But many Republicans who had been chosen to cast electoral votes for Trump still gathered to cast them. They said they were employing a tactic used by Democrats in Hawaii in an election 60 years ago — casting votes that don’t count, in the hopes that a later court decision would give them force.

This year, that seems very unlikely to work.

Jonathan Lai<https://twitter.com/Elaijuh/status/1338611540442877954> helpfully went down some of the rabbit holes with Ned Foley and Derek Muller.
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Posted in chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, electoral college<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>, fraudulent fraud squad<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>

Michigan: “State, company officials dispute report claiming Antrim County tabulators bungled results”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119669>
Posted on December 14, 2020 5:02 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119669> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Detroit Free Press:<https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/14/michigan-company-officials-dispute-report-antrim-county-voting/6538325002/>

State officials are disputing a report on Antrim County’s voting equipment — signed by a consultant who confused Michigan and Minnesota voting districts in an earlier election analysis — that says the county’s equipment “is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”

Michigan Elections Director Jonathan Brater said in a weekend court filing the report “makes a series of unsupported conclusions, ascribes motives of fraud and obfuscation to processes that are easily explained as routine election procedures or error corrections, and suggests without explanation that elements of election software not used in Michigan are somehow responsible for tabulation or reporting errors that are either nonexistent or easily explained.”…

The report is signed by Russell Ramsland of Allied Security Operations Group.

Ramsland, a cybersecurity analyst and former Republican congressional candidate, mistook voting jurisdictions in Minnesota for Michigan towns in one recent flawed analysis of voter turnout in the Nov. 3 election. In another, filed in support of a federal lawsuit filed in Michigan, he made wildly inaccurate claims about voter turnout<https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/12/04/michigan-lawsuit-makes-wild-claims-voter-turnout/3829654001/> in various Michigan municipalities claiming that Detroit, where turnout was 51%, had turnout of 139%, and that North Muskegon, which had turnout of 78%, had voter turnout of 782%.
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Posted in Supreme Court<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

Rep. Paul Mitchell’s (MI) Resigns from Republican Party to become Independent<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119667>
Posted on December 14, 2020 3:30 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119667> by Richard Pildes<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=7>

From this resignation letter to Majority Leader McCarthy and RNC Chair McDaniel:

I have stated publicly numerous times that when entering the political arena, a person must be willing to accept winning and losing with grace and maturity. Having personally experienced both winning and losing, the latter can be brutal.

Any candidate, including the president, is entitled to request recounts and pursue legal challenges they believe are appropriate if they possess evidence of wrongdoing. President Trump has undertaken or supported both of these options. Recounts have failed to significantly alter the vote outcome in any state and dozens of court cases have been summarily dismissed in both state and Federal courts across our nation.

It is unacceptable for political candidates to treat our election system as though we are a third- world nation and incite distrust of something so basic as the sanctity of our vote. Further, it is unacceptable for the president to attack the Supreme Court of the United States because its judges, both liberal and conservative, did not rule with his side or that “the Court failed him.” It was our Founding Fathers’ objective to insulate the Supreme Court from such blatant political motivations.

If Republican leaders collectively sit back and tolerate unfounded conspiracy theories and “stop the steal” rallies without speaking out for our electoral process, which the Department of Homeland Security said was “the most secure in American history,” our nation will be damaged. I have spoken out clearly and forcefully in opposition to these messages. However, with the leadership of the Republican Party and our Republican Conference in the House actively participating in at least some of those efforts, I fear long-term harm to our democracy.

The stability and strength of our democracy has been an ongoing concern for me. I expressed strong concerns about the president’s response to Charlottesville, the anti-immigrant “send them back” rhetoric, and even the racist comments of my own colleagues in the House.
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Quote of the Day<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119663>
Posted on December 14, 2020 10:48 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119663> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lee Chatfield,<https://twitter.com/LeeChatfield/status/1338533420628992001?s=20> Speaker of the Michigan House:
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

“A voting technology company at the center of election conspiracy theories demanded a retraction from Fox News, accusing them of ‘a concerted disinformation campaign'”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119661>
Posted on December 14, 2020 10:16 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119661> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Business Insider:<https://www.businessinsider.com/smartmatic-voting-company-demands-retraction-fox-news-oan-newsmax-2020-12>

The election software company Smartmatic is demanding retractions from right-wing media outlets, accusing them of spreading conspiracy theories about its role in the 2020 elections.

In a letter obtained by Insider<https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20423795-legal-notice-and-retraction-demand-from-smartmatic-usa-corp-to-fox-news>, Smartmatic accused Fox News of engaging in “a concerted disinformation campaign against Smartmatic” by “continually and repeatedly published demonstrably false information and defamatory statements.”

“Fox News told its millions of viewers and readers that Smartmatic was founded by Hugo Chávez, that its software was designed to fix elections, and that Smartmatic conspired with others to defraud the American people and fix the 2020 U.S. election by changing, inflating, and deleting votes,” Smartmatic’s letter, addressed to Fox News executive vice president and general counsel Lily Fu Claffee, reads.

Smartmatic has also sent retraction demands and legal notices to One America News Network and Newsmax, two right-wing news outlets that pushed conspiracy theories about the company’s role in the election, a Smartmatic spokesperson confirmed to Insider.
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Kris Kobach, Whose Discriminatory Kansas Voting Law Just Lost at the Supreme Court, Also Advised Texas on Suit Attempting to Steal the Election That Supreme Court Rejected Friday<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119659>
Posted on December 14, 2020 10:11 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119659> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bryan Lowry<https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article247829980.html>:

Rick Hasen, an election law professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law said Kansas “never should have even taken the case to the Supreme Court in the first place given Kobach’s utter failure in proving his claims of widespread voter fraud and his inept running of the trial.”

In 2018, after a series of missteps in district court, Kobach was found in contempt and ordered to take six hours of remedial legal training on civil procedure. That gave Schmidt little chance of success when he took over in the case for the appeal.

“The Supreme Court has tolerated a number of laws that make it harder for people to register and vote in the name of preventing voter fraud and giving states the ability to run their elections as they see fit. The Fish case shows there are limits to that,” Hasen said, referencing the ACLU’s client Steven Wayne Fish.

“Disenfranchising tens of thousands of people without proof of fraud goes too far under federal law and the Constitution.”

In a phone call, Kobach rejected the notion that his courtroom performance resulted in the state’s loss at the district court level.

He agreed with Schmidt’s office that the high court’s Monday denial represents the end of the Kansas litigation, but he said that the issue of proof of citizenship could still come before the court in the future if a state outside of the 10th Circuit enacts a similar law and it results in a contradictory ruling.

“There’s nothing more the (Kansas) attorney general’s office can do on the case, but I think the issue is far from over. There were a number of states looking at this in the past few years. I think the 2020 presidential election has raised the focus on election security,” Kobach said.

“The rest of the country has a wide open path ahead of it if more states want to pursue proof of citizenship,” Kobach said, contending that the ruling only affects Kansas and the five other states covered by the 10th Circuit.

Kobach said that he was involved in Texas’ failed attempt to overturn the presidential election results in four states, serving as an adviser on Texas’ briefs. The court rejected the lawsuit Friday evening.<https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/election/article247792830.html>

Kobach said he would not consider Joe Biden to be president-elect until Congress votes to accept the Electoral College results on January 6, but he acknowledged that few opportunities remain for President Donald Trump to contest the election results after Friday’s decision.
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Michigan: “Judge orders release of report examining Antrim County vote tabulators”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119657>
Posted on December 14, 2020 10:03 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119657> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Detroit Free Press:<https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/14/judge-orders-release-report-examining-antrim-county-vote-tabulators/6537004002/>

A Michigan judge has ordered the release of a report on Antrim County voting equipment after state and county officials withdrew objections, saying the plaintiff’s attorney had already publicly released his version of the findings in any case.

Assistant Attorney General Erik Grill said the report, which is expected to be released Monday morning, is “inaccurate, incomplete and misleading.”

Judge Kevin Elsenheimer of the 13th Circuit Court had ordered “forensic imaging” of the Dominion Voting Systems voting tabulators and related software after Antrim County resident William Bailey filed a lawsuit that challenged the integrity of the election equipment, citing errors in how the county initially reported its unofficial results.

Elsenheimer, a former Republican lawmaker, did not base his order on unofficial results that showed Democrat Joe Biden got more votes than Republican President Donald Trump in the solidly GOP county — a mistake both county and state officials have attributed to an error the Republican clerk made<https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/06/antrim-county-vote-glitch-software-update/6194745002/> when updating ballot information. Instead, the judge cited a closely decided village proposal to allow a marijuana dispensary.
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Breaking: Wisconsin Supreme Court, on 4-3 Vote, Rejects Trump Challenge to Election; Conservative Justice Hagedorn Joins Liberals; Oddly, Dissenters Do Not Say What the Remedy Should Be for Supposed Illegalities<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119647>
Posted on December 14, 2020 9:04 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119647> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read Trump v. Biden.<https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=315395>

The majority found most of the claims were barred by laches<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=117751>. “he Campaign’s delay in raising these issues was unreasonable in the extreme, and the resulting prejudice to the election officials, other candidates, voters of the affected counties, and to voters statewide, is obvious and immense. Laches is more than appropriate here; the Campaign is not entitled to the
relief it seeks.”

“Our decision that the Campaign is not entitled to the relief it seeks does not mean the legal issues presented are foreclosed from further judicial scrutiny. Wisconsin law provides sufficient mechanisms for challenging unlawful WEC guidance or unlawful municipal election practices. Nothing in our decision denying relief to the Campaign would affect the right of another party to raise substantive challenges.”

Justice Hagedorn, who wrote the majority opinion, also wrote a separate opinion expressing views on some of the claims that the court did not need to reach given the laches holding.

The three separate dissents from the three dissenters reach the merits to say that some of the challenges brought by the Trump campaign were meritorious, but they do not say what the remedy should be, and do not weigh in on whether to throw out the votes and award the results to Trump. Very odd to not say what the remedy should be.

This is very odd. If in fact there were illegalities in how the election was run, how could the dissenters not say what they think the remedy should be?

[This post has been updated.]
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Michigan Lawmaker Suggests “Hail Mary” Play Regarding Appointing Presidential Electors in Michigan for Trump and Does Not Rule Out Violence; He’s Been Stripped of His Committee Assignments<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119642>
Posted on December 14, 2020 8:07 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119642> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

So<https://politicalwire.com/2020/12/14/lawmaker-claims-hail-mary-effort-to-help-trump/> troubling<https://twitter.com/LeeChatfield/status/1338508918733955073?s=20>.
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“What’s Next for Trump Voters Who Believe the Election Was Stolen?; Some are certain the election was fraudulent. Others aren’t so sure. What becomes of their skepticism has important implications for American democracy.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119640>
Posted on December 14, 2020 7:01 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119640> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports.<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/trump-voters-stolen-election.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage>
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Breaking: Supreme Court Will Not Hear Kansas Case (Formerly Known as Fish v. Kobach) Striking Down Law Requiring Documentary Proof of Citizenship Before Registering to Vote<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119638>
Posted on December 14, 2020 6:34 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119638> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This is great news<https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121420zor_8n59.pdf>. No noted, dissents, and Justice Gorsuch did not participate (perhaps he dealt with the case earlier on the 10th Circuit).

In my book Election Meltdown, I talked about how the trial in the case was the most important one so far this century, because it was the chance for members of the Fraudulent Fraud Squad to come up with evidence to actually prove in court under the rules of evidence that voter fraud is a major problem.

They came up totally empty.

The law had already disenfranchised 30,000 Kansans before a federal court stopped it and prevented no appreciable amount of fraud.

It’s a great day for Dale Ho and his ACLU team, and a greater day for American democracy.
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“Michigan House, Senate close offices due to threats ahead of electors’ meeting”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119636>
Posted on December 14, 2020 6:27 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119636> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Detroit News reports.<https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/13/michigan-house-senate-close-offices-monday-due-safety-concerns/6533488002/>
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Wall Street Journal Tells Trump to Concede<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119634>
Posted on December 14, 2020 6:26 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119634> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Editorial.<https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-challenge-is-over-11607898467?mod=opinion_lead_pos1>

There’s a time to fight, and a time to concede. Mr. Trump has had his innumerable days in court and lost. He would do far better now to tout his accomplishments in office, which are many, and accept his not so horrible fate as one of 45 former American Presidents.
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Trump Campaign Planning on Sending Alternative Slate of Electors to Congress, Per Stephen Miller. It Won’t Matter to the Outcome.<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119632>
Posted on December 14, 2020 6:22 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119632> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here’s <https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1338484357389017090?s=20> the video.

These electors have neither been certified by state executives nor purportedly appointed by state legislators. They don’t have legal authority and so this does not affect the counting of Electoral College votes.

But it does show that the Trump campaign will continue to try to delegitimize the Biden presidency and the American election system.
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Two Ash Center Programs This Week<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119630>
Posted on December 14, 2020 6:19 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119630> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Via email:

Looking Forward: The Paths and Prospects for Democracy Reform<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/3416067633056/WN_b9HqxE57SVSB3qq_9QptqA?j=42354&sfmc_sub=32294109&l=94_HTML&u=619286&mid=514003465&jb=1>

DescriptionAs the smoke (slowly) clears from the 2020 elections, advocates for full participation and democracy reform are charting a path forward. In Congress and in state legislatures, the lessons of 2020 and the new contours of politics will shape efforts going forward. What is the terrain reformers will confront, what are the reforms being proposed, and what are the prospects for success, short term and long term? The Ash Center is pleased to pose these questions to four leading democracy advocates and election experts:

Discussing Prospects and Plans for Congressional Action
Congressman Jamie Raskin, MD-8

Discussing Prospects and Possibilities in the States:
Wendy Underhill, Director of Elections and Redistricting, National Conference of State Legislatures;
Carmen Lopez, Democracy Program Director, State Innovation Exchange

Discussing the Major Challenges Facing our Democracy
Heather McGhee, Author of the forthcoming The Sum of Us, and former President, Demos

Moderator
Tova Wang, Democracy Fellow, Ash CenterTime

Dec 15, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)<javascript:;>

Georgia on Our Minds: Voter Engagement and Voter Protection in the Senate Runoffs<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/3616075286013/WN_cZsfe0N1Ty-rSkOxe4DKMQ?j=42668&sfmc_sub=32293320&l=94_HTML&u=626388&mid=514003465&jb=1>

DescriptionAt this moment, the attention of the country is sharply focused on the state of Georgia. Just two months after a breathtakingly narrow election, one in which the mechanisms of democracy and the performance of the officials who administered it were severely tested, the voters of Georgia will make another high-stakes decision on January 5. While the candidates and the media are mostly focused on who will win the two Senate runoff races, there is another crucial set of dynamics at work about the voting process itself. We want to look at what efforts are taking place to encourage and protect the votes of Georgia’s citizens, what challenges those efforts are facing, and the state of play three weeks from the day of the runoff. We will pose these questions to four Georgia leaders deeply involved in the hard work of democracy in the state.

Panelists include:

• Tamieka Atkins, Executive Director, ProGeorgia
• LaTosha Brown, Founder, Black Voters Matter; Former Fellow, Institute of Politics, HKS
• State Senator Nan Grogan Orrock, 36th Senate District, Atlanta, GA
• Stephanie Cho, Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta
• Miles Rapoport (Moderator), Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy, Ash CenterTime

Dec 17, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)<javascript:;>
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What Do Donald Trump and the NY Jets Have in Common?<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119627>
Posted on December 13, 2020 8:09 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119627> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Sportsmax<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP_K5czbny4>!
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Posted in election law "humor"<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=52>

Helpful Chart from Ohio State of Electoral College Meeting Times Throughout the Country<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119625>
Posted on December 13, 2020 7:46 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119625> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Useful.<https://u.osu.edu/electionlaw/2020/12/13/electoral-college-meeting-times/>
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Ned Foley on NPR: “Amid Pressures To Overturn Election, Electoral College Under New Scrutiny”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119623>
Posted on December 13, 2020 7:44 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119623> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ned Foley on NPR<https://www.npr.org/2020/12/13/946098417/amid-pressures-to-overturn-election-electoral-college-under-new-scrutiny>.
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