[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/23/20

Mon Nov 23 08:35:37 PST 2020

Rick’s NYT piece captures the real ongoing threat to voting and our democratic institutions. Bravo.

Also—the Michigan Supreme Court has opined several times (as did the Office of the Michigan Attorney General) that boards of canvassers have a “ministerial” duty to accept returns.  The boards cannot “go behind” any returns, even when there are allegations of irregularities or fraud.  Only if there is a recount can a board defer its ministerial obligation to certify results.

Although the state board can adjourn its meeting to certify, the statute says it can do so only to “await receipt or correction of returns” – neither of which is relevant – or “for other necessary purposes” – which of course is not defined, but the state board would be hard-pressed to devise a legitimate “necessary purpose” to circumvent its obligation to certify.

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My New New York Times Oped Argues We Should Worry Less About Whether Trump Can Steal the Election (He Can’t); Worry More About the Damage Being Done to Voting Rights and the Legitimacy of our Election System and Democracy<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118985__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEjLd5mzA$>
Posted on November 23, 2020 6:26 am<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118985__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEjLd5mzA$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

I have written this piece<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/opinion/trump-election-courts.html?referringSource=articleShare__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGyQRmBhQ$> for the NY Times. It begins:

Even as the campaign lawsuits brought by President Trump over the 2020 election enter their death throes<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-legal-path-to-challenge-election-is-closing-11606074745__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGOOcmtzQ$>, many people continue to worry that Mr. Trump will find three Republican legislatures to magically snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. They are concerned that he will pull off an antidemocratic hat trick through maneuvers like delaying recounts in Wisconsin<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-recount-trump-campaign/2020/11/22/7c971746-2b5d-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hFnPIVAXg$> and blocking certification in Michigan<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/us/politics/trump-vote.html__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGdxMUTQg$> to allow these legislatures to submit competing slates of electors to Congress. The goal is to prevent Joe Biden from securing the Electoral College votes he needs on Jan. 6 for Congress to declare him president.

The good news is that there is no real prospect that Mr. Trump can avoid a reluctant handover of power on Jan. 20. The bad news is that Mr. Trump’s wildly unsubstantiated claims of a vast voter fraud conspiracy and the litigation he has brought against voting rights have done — and will increasingly do — serious damage to our democracy. Our problems will deepen, in particular, because Mr. Trump’s litigation strategy has led to the emergence of a voter-hostile jurisprudence in the federal courts. New judicial doctrines will put more power in the hands of Republican legislatures to suppress the vote and take voters, state courts and federal courts out of key backstop roles.

Let’s start on the positive side. A federal district court opinion<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/gov.uscourts.pamd_.127057.202.0_1-1.pdf__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hE9YqidYQ$> issued in Pennsylvania Saturday laid bare both the dangerousness and vacuousness of Mr. Trump’s litigation strategy. Rudy Giuliani, acting as one of the president’s lawyers, failed to persuade Judge Matthew Brann — an Obama-appointed Federalist Society member and former Republican official<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/twitter.com/MatthewStiegler/status/1330303713249030145__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hFVzJEHOg$> — to disenfranchise nearly seven million Pennsylvania voters and to let the state legislature name a slate of presidential electors. The court held that the Trump campaign offered a “Frankenstein’s monster” of a legal theory and that the complaint was full of nothing more than “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence.”

Although the campaign has appealed<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1330597825084841985__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHZbUVCjg$> the case to the Third Circuit, it is so weak it will get no better reception there or at the Supreme Court. There are no remaining legal cases that could plausibly overturn the election results<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trump-needs-three-consecutive-hail-mary-passes/617063/__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGmmhHE2A$> in even one state where Mr. Trump has lost (much less the three he would need for a different result in the Electoral College)….

All of that is indeed good news, but I am quite concerned about what comes next. By the time President-elect Biden takes the oath of office, millions of people will wrongly believe he stole the election. At least 300 times since the election<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/technology/trump-has-amplified-voting-falsehoods-in-over-300-tweets-since-election-night.html__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hFDJwxuAA$>, Mr. Trump has gone straight to his followers on social media to declare<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/us/politics/trump-presidency.html__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hFrlSorXQ$> the election rigged or stolen and to claim, despite all evidence to the contrary, himself as the real victor. Mr. Trump’s false claims will delegitimize a Biden presidency among his supporters. It should go without saying that a democracy requires the losers of an election to accept the results as legitimate and agree to fight another day; Republican leaders echoing Mr. Trump’s failure to support a peaceful transition of power undermine the foundation of our democracy. It’s not only the fact that we have had to say this, but that we keep having to repeat it, that shows the depths that we have reached.

Mr. Trump’s litigation strategy also will make things worse when it comes to voting rights. The common thread in his campaign’s postelection litigation connecting Trump allegations of people of color illegally voting<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118928__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGJSXAOLg$> in Democratic cities in swing states and corrupted voting machines<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/technology/no-dominion-voting-machines-did-not-delete-trump-votes.html__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHa3JT2Mw$> is a lack of any evidence to support the claims. Many of the lawsuits have been laughed out of court for lack of evidence, voluntarily dismissed, or involve so few votes that they could not plausibly change the outcome. These unsuccessful lawsuits will nonetheless provide a false narrative to explain how it is that Mr. Biden declared victory and serve as a predicate for new restrictive voting laws in Republican states. They already provided a basis for the now-aborted attempt of Republican canvassing board members in Wayne County, Mich., to reject votes from Democratic-leaning Detroit, and could be the basis for a similar move<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.cnn.com/2020/11/22/politics/michigan-election-result-certification/index.html__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEKPXyQpg$> by Republicans when the Michigan state canvassing board meets Monday.

And even as Mr. Trump has lost most of his postelection lawsuits, he and his allies had a good bit of success before the election in cases that will stymie voting rights going forward. Following the lead of the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appeals courts now routinely say<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/elj.2020.0646__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGpek-9KA$> that federal courts should be deferential when states engage in balancing voting rights — even during a pandemic — against a state’s interests in election administration and avoiding fraud, even when states come forward with no evidence of fraud. Under the so-called “Purcell principle<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ir.law.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2542&context=lr__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEkilmvmQ$>,” courts increasingly<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/us/supreme-court-election-cases.html__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEcbr16XQ$> allow states to make voting harder. They can do this whenever states are able to stall judicial proceedings long enough that they can claim a voting change comes too close to the election and will confuse voters and election administrators. Courts have issued other disturbing opinions, including allowing for age discrimination<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2020*D10-06*C:20-2605:J:Kanne:aut:T:fnOp:N:2591610:S:0__;Ly8!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHxXY81pw$> in the availability of mail-in ballots only for those older than 60 or 65, essentially short-circuiting litigation<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-50407-CV1.pdf__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHxSCcqrQ$> under the 26th Amendment, which bars discrimination in voting on the basis of age.

The worst appears yet to come. In one of the lawsuits that remains technically alive at the Supreme Court out of Pennsylvania, Mr. Trump and his allies have advanced a muscular version<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/us/supreme-court-bush-gore-kavanaugh.html__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hF1k_Np2A$> of something that’s become known as the “independent state legislature” doctrine. Taken to its extreme, the doctrine says that state legislatures have complete authority to set election rules absent congressional override, and that their power to set election rules cannot be overcome even by state supreme courts applying right-to-vote provisions in state constitutions….
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Breaking: In Federal Case in Pennsylvania, Trump Campaign Seeks Very Limited Emergency Remedy in Third Circuit, and Does Not Ask for a Delay in Certification<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118980__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHIriYMhQ$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 5:55 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118980__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHIriYMhQ$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

In a new filing<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/boockvar-3rd.pdf__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hE69qYjGQ$> in the Third Circuit (that should appear on the docket tomorrow), the Trump campaign did not ask for the appeals court to issue an immediate order delaying certification, which is what I expected. They do not even ask for an immediate order reversing the trial court’s motion to dismiss and granting some kind of preliminary relief for additional discovery. Instead, the only ask, at least so far, is for an order for the district to consider on the merits the campaign’s proposed Second Amended complaint: “Appellants will request that this Court reverse denial of the Motion to Amend and direct the District Court to promptly decide it on the merits and proceed expeditiously to a hearing to enjoin certifying the results of the Presidential Election (or order decertification if already certified) if the Second Amended Complaint (ECF 172-2) is held to state valid claims.”

This is odd for a number of reasons. First, this is an emergency election case, and it seems crazy to me that if one were litigating over the presidential election one would NOT seek to get appellate review of an adverse ruling as soon as possible. Second, all that this asks for is for the district court to consider the proposed second amended complaint on the merits. Given the scathing ruling on the first amended complaint yesterday, and the similar defects with the second amended complaint (including lack of standing), there’s no reason to expect the district court would reach any different conclusion if it considered the second amended complaint. This is especially true given the deference usually applied to decisions about accepting a second amended complaint. Third, the motion does not even ask the Third Circuit to weigh in on the controlling legal case that was just decided last week by the circuit, something which is potentially the whole ball game on standing in the case.

There are other problems with this filing too, such as the odd claim that “The proposed Second Amended Complaint (ECF 172-2) asserts claims under the Civil Rights Act for violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clause.” Those clauses are in the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, not the Civil Rights Act.

Just bizarre and weak.
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“Trump’s legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118978__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGJp7O54g$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 3:29 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118978__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGJp7O54g$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

AP reports.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-pennsylvania-elections-talk-radio-433b6efe72720d8648221f405c2111f9__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGs4k2QKw$>
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“Pres. Trump election challenges sound alarm among Black voters”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118976__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGPRHfXXQ$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 3:08 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118976__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGPRHfXXQ$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

AP:<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/abc7chicago.com/politics/trump-election-challenges-sound-alarm-among-black-voters/8172559/__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGgUWsNWg$>

President-elect Joe Biden was in part powered to victory in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia by Black voters, many of them concentrated in cities such as Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta where he received a significant share of their support. Since Election Day, President Donald Trump and his allies have sought to expose voter fraud that simply does not exist in these and other overwhelmingly Black population centers.

Such a plainly racist strategy to contest the election could erode Black voters’ trust in elections. Voting-rights advocates say they stand ready to beat back any efforts to water down the Black vote. But fears persist that Trump’s allies will undermine democracy and disenfranchise Black Americans and other voters of color.

Trump renewed his attack on Motown voters Thursday, tweeting without evidence, “Voter Fraud in Detroit is rampant, and has been for many years.”
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“The Supreme Court’s ‘Breathtakingly Radical’ New Approach to Election Law: The justices won’t end up deciding the 2020 presidential race, but they have set the stage for a massive rollback of voting rights.”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118974__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEGHYYSGQ$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 3:07 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118974__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEGHYYSGQ$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

Wendy Weiser and Daniel Weiner Politico piece<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/22/supreme-court-election-law-voting-rights-438844__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHNYoEdeA$>.

I have something sounding similar themes publishing soon.
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“Election updates: Christie calls Trump legal team ‘national embarrassment’; Hogan tells Trump ‘stop golfing and concede'”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118972__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEGOXSuSw$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 3:05 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118972__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEGOXSuSw$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

USA Today reports.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/22/election-2020-updates-trump-biden-electors-president/6381507002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomwashington-topstories__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hFV5ExuQA$>
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“Attorney heading up Trump campaign’s Wisconsin recount effort is seeking to throw out his own vote”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118970__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGN6fvb2A$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 2:52 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118970__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGN6fvb2A$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/22/attorney-heading-up-trump-recount-wants-throw-out-his-own-vote/6382647002/__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hF2Iil1sA$>

 The Dane County attorney overseeing the Trump campaign’s effort to recount and disqualify ballots in the state’s largest counties wants to throw out his own vote.

Jim Troupis, a former Dane County judge and Cross Plains attorney who is representing the Trump campaign’s recount effort, voted early using the state’s in-person absentee option — one of a group of voters whose ballots the Trump campaign has asked election officials to deem illegal.

Troupis and his wife appear on exhibits he submitted to the Dane County Board of Canvassers on Sunday, during the county’s third day of retallying ballots. The exhibits include lists of voters who voted in a manner the campaign alleges is illegal, which the Board of Canvassers has rejected. The information was provided by Dane County to both campaigns.
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“Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118968__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGHAQS4og$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 2:45 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118968__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGHAQS4og$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

You need to scroll through<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/21/science/artificial-intelligence-fake-people-faces.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEtTW1vOg$> these AI-generated faces at NYT.
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“Trump calls on GOP state legislatures to overturn election results”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118966__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEAoA93Og$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 2:39 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118966__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEAoA93Og$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

Politico<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/trump-state-legislatures-overturn-election-results-439031__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHu8RfGYA$>:

President Donald Trump made explicit Saturday the strategy his legal team has been hinting at for days: He wants Republican-led legislatures to overturn election results in states that Joe Biden won.

“Why is Joe Biden so quickly forming a Cabinet when my investigators have found hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes, enough to “flip” at least four States, which in turn is more than enough to win the Election?” Trump said<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1330319748660416513__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGTFpB0aQ$>, despite refusing to produce any such evidence either publicly or in court cases filed by his attorneys.

“Hopefully the Courts and/or Legislatures will have the COURAGE to do what has to be done to maintain the integrity of our Elections, and the United States of America itself,” Trump said<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1330319750094860290__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hFgd9QWpQ$>.

Trump’s comment came after a string of legal defeats, including a rejection by a federal judge in Pennsylvania Saturday who said the Trump team presented no evidence of election fraud or misconduct, despite seeking to invalidate millions of votes. Trump’s lead lawyer in the case, Rudy Giuliani, said he intends to appeal the case to the Third Circuit and, if necessary, the Supreme Court.
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“Michigan House speaker floats possibility of ‘constitutional crisis'”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118964__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hH4Gy5HKA$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 2:34 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118964__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hH4Gy5HKA$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

Detroit News:<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/22/michigan-house-speaker-floats-possibility-constitutional-crisis/6381960002/__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHzy3mwPw$>

Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield referenced the possibility of a “constitutional crisis” during an interview on Fox News Sunday morning, two days after he huddled with President Donald Trump at the White House.

The Board of State Canvassers meets Monday to consider certifying Michigan’s statewide election results, including President-elect Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory. But top Republican Party leaders have asked the board to delay certification in a bid to investigate<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/11/21/state-national-gop-seek-delay-certification-election-results/6373717002/__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEGWQ8mbw$> “anomalies and irregularities” they claimoccurred on Nov. 3.

The board features two Republicans and two Democrats. Many legal experts believe the panel has a duty, under Michigan law, to certify the results Monday.

“If there were to be a 2-2 split on the State Board of Canvassers, it would then go to the Michigan Supreme Court to determine what their response would be, what their order would be,” Chatfield, R-Levering said on “Fox & Friends” Sunday<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt1bbyF0IMI&feature=emb_logo__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hF3xk2SIg$>. “If they didn’t have an order that it be certified, well now we have a constitutional crisis in the state of Michigan. It’s never occurred before.”

But as Rick Pildes explained in the NYT:<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/opinion/trump-michigan-election.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGw8LrPWw$>

The Biden campaign and Michigan voters would likely first turn to the state or federal courts. A court would likely issue an order to the state board to certify the result — legally, this is known as issuing a writ of mandamus — because the board’s legal duty is clear and unequivocal once it has received the certified vote totals from the counties. If the resistant board members were still willing to defy the court and go to jail (presidential pardons do not apply to state crimes), a court could also issue the certification itself.

Michigan’s governor also has legal powers she could invoke, though whether she would choose to do so would involve complex political judgments. Under the state’s Constitution<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(ducddmaqgmiuu4pjorw2k45c))/mileg.aspx?page=GetObject&objectname=mcl-Article-V-10__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHlM0Y-jg$>, she has the power — the Constitution, actually, calls it a duty — to remove or suspend from office a canvassing board member for “gross neglect of duty,” “corrupt conduct” or “for any other misfeasance or malfeasance” in carrying out their duties. Failing to certify on the facts in Michigan would easily meet this standard.
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“Brad Raffensperger: Georgia’s election results are sound”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118962__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGJmk-gGQ$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 2:27 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118962__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGJmk-gGQ$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

WaPo oped<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/21/brad-raffensperger-georgia-results-2020-election-trustworthy/__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGzPhDxiA$>:

The truth is that the people of Georgia — and across the country — should not have any remaining doubts about who was elected governor two years ago or who won the presidential election earlier this month. The presidential outcome was remarkably close, but the new paper-ballot system, the strong election security and integrity mechanisms in place, and the audit and hand recount should combine to put to rest any doubts about the final outcome.
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“In last-gasp maneuver, Trump campaign tries to invalidate thousands of votes as Wisconsin recount gets underway”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118960__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEWY3hwyw$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 2:14 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118960__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEWY3hwyw$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

WaPo:<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-recount-trump-campaign/2020/11/22/7c971746-2b5d-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hFnPIVAXg$>

President Trump’s campaign is seeking to use a recount of the presidential election in Wisconsin to attempt to invalidate tens of thousands of votes in the state, making sweeping challenges to whole categories of ballots cast in the state’s two Democratic-leaning counties in his last-gasp effort to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s win.

As a recount began on Friday in Dane and Milwaukee counties — home to the cities of Madison and Milwaukee — Trump lawyers argued that officials should not merely retabulate all the votes cast in the Nov. 3 election to reconfirm they’d been counted properly.

Instead, they argued that large batches of ballots had been improperly accepted and counted in the first place. In both Dane and Milwaukee, they sought to disqualify all absentee ballots that had been cast before Election Day in person, rather than by mail.ADADVERTISING

So far, their efforts have been rejected by the Democratic-majority boards of canvasses in both counties, which have denied attempts to set aside large categories of ballots and instead proceeded to a slow-moving process to retabulate all the votes.

The recount must conclude no later than Dec. 1, when the election is scheduled to be certified. At that point, the president’s campaign could file a lawsuit over its rejected challenges — potentially delaying certification.
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“Trump’s Legal Path to Challenge Election Is Closing; As the president’s legal prospects dim with another lawsuit dismissal, lawyers vow to take case to the Supreme Court”<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118958__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEcP0St7A$>
Posted on November 22, 2020 1:46 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?p=118958__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hEcP0St7A$> by Rick Hasen<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hHFbDaUvg$>

WSJ reports<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-legal-path-to-challenge-election-is-closing-11606074745__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hGOOcmtzQ$>.
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This new paper from Herron, Smith, et. al., out incredibly fast, suggests that there were 4,000 people in Gwinnett County who accidentally voted twice in the Loeffler-Collins-Warnock race, due to confusion of the double-column ballot used there. Pictures of the ballot in Gwinnett County compared to the one in Bibb County, from their paper is below. This has no effect on the presidential election and did not affect the outcome in the Senate race, but a possible example about how badly designed ballots can confuse voters:
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In Reuters interviews<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/in.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-fraud-insight/why-republican-voters-say-theres-no-way-in-hell-trump-lost-idUSKBN2801D4__;!!N5JjT8_g!JALEW-rx75d_wtfO6h96uriIDcJUfxzVyhWu9aI6UiNskGIPnRKmLTRY3hFHNGmC7w$> with 50 Trump voters, all said they believed the election was rigged or in some way illegitimate. Of those, 20 said they would consider accepting Biden as their president, but only in light of proof that the election was conducted fairly. Most repeated debunked conspiracy theories espoused by Trump, Republican officials and conservative media claiming that millions of votes were dishonestly switched to Biden in key states by biased poll workers and hacked voting machines.

Many voters interviewed by Reuters said they formed their opinions by watching emergent right-wing media outlets such as Newsmax and One American News Network that have amplified Trump’s fraud claims. Some have boycotted Fox News out of anger that the network called Biden the election winner and that some of its news anchors – in contrast to its opinion show stars – have been skeptical of Trump’s fraud allegations. …

It may not be the last time. Many Republicans see attacks on election integrity as a winning issue for future campaigns – including the next presidential race, according to one Republican operative close to the Trump campaign. The party, the person said, is setting up a push for “far more stringent oversight on voting procedures in 2024,” when the party’s nominee will likely be Trump or his anointed successor.

Many Republican voters scoff at those results, convinced Trump was cheated. Raymond Fontaine, a hardware store owner in Oakville, Connecticut, said Biden’s vote total – the highest of any presidential candidate in history – makes no sense because the 78-year-old Democrat made relatively few campaign appearances and seemed to be in mental decline….

“You are going to tell me 77 million Americans voted for him? There is just no way,” said Fontaine, 50….

Rory Wells, 51, a New Jersey lawyer who attended a pro-Trump “stop the steal” election protest in Trenton last week, said he now watches Newsmax because Fox isn’t sufficiently conservative.

“I like that I get to hear from Rudy Giuliani and others who are not immediately discounted as being crazy,” he said of Trump’s lead election lawyer.

Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy said the network’s viewership has exploded since the election, with nearly 3 million viewers nightly via cable television and streaming video devices.

In Sundown, Texas, Mayor Jonathan Strickland said there’s “no way in hell” Biden won fairly. The only way he’ll believe it, he said, is if Trump himself says so.

“Trump is the only one we’ve been able to trust for the last four years,” said Strickland, an oilfield production engineer. “As far as the civil war goes, I don’t think it’s off the table.”

If it comes to a fight, Caleb Fryar is ready. But the 26-year-old son of Brett Fryar, the chiropractor, said he hoped Trump’s fraud allegations would instead spark a massive mobilization of Republican voters in future elections.

Asked whether Trump might be duping his followers, he said it’s hard to fathom.

“If I’m being manipulated by Trump … then he is the greatest con man that ever lived in America,” Caleb Fryar said. “I think he’s the greatest patriot that ever lived.”
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