[EL] Trump Falsely and Prematurely Claims Victory in 2:30 AM ET Speech

[Levitt, Justin]

If legislatures just up and declare slates in states that have processes delivering an answer by Dec. 8 under the rules set by Nov. 3, that’s not a nightmare scenario.  That’s a lot of legislators producing pieces of paper that don’t have any meaningful legal effect.

From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> On Behalf Of Fredric Woocher
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2020 1:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [EL] Trump Falsely and Prematurely Claims Victory in 2:30 AM ET Speech

Is anyone else concerned that Trump’s fraud claims, recounts, and lawsuits are primarily intended to lay the groundwork for the strategy in which he tries to inject enough uncertainty into the validity of the vote count and to drag out the proceedings long enough for the Republican Legislatures in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or elsewhere appoint their own slate of electors for Trump?  This seems to be heading toward one of the nightmare scenarios gamed out by the election law scholars in advance of the election, no?

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