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TRUMP COMES UP EMPTY WHEN PRESSED FOR EVIDENCE OF ELECTION FRAUD IN COURT
The Trump campaigns 524-page response to a discovery demand turned up precisely zero instances of mail-in vote fraud.
Richard Salame
August 20 2020, 1:12 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/trump-election-fraud-pennsylvania-court/
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMPS campaign, ordered by a federal court judge in Pennsylvania to back up its claims of fraud in the states vote-by-mail system, has documented only a handful of cases of election fraud in recent years none of which involved mail-in ballots. The revelation, which came in the form of a partially redacted 524-page document produced by the Trump campaign last week, undermines the claim by Trump team operatives that mail-in ballot fraud is a grave risk to Pennsylvania voters.
The campaign is suing Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar and each of the states county election boards to prevent election administrators from providing secure drop boxes for mail-in ballot returns. These drop boxes allow voters to return their mail-in ballots by hand, without sending them through the postal system and risking delays. The Trump campaign alleges that the practice provides fraudsters an easy opportunity to engage in ballot harvesting, manipulate or destroy ballots, manufacture duplicitous votes, and sow chaos.
In a motion last week, Citizens for Pennsylvanias Future and the Sierra Club called on the Trump campaign to provide evidence of the existence of voter fraud, arguing that the campaigns lawsuit was replete with salacious allegations and dire warnings about Pennsylvanias elections and that they must either be compelled to provide discovery concerning their fraud-based allegations or be precluded from pursuing these claims going forward. Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan granted the motion, ordering the campaign to produce such evidence in their possession, and if they have none, state as much.
The response provided by the Trump campaign to the opposing counsel, which was shared with The Intercept and Type Investigations, contains a few scant examples of election fraud but none of the instances in the 524-page discovery document involved mail-in ballots.
The Trump campaigns 524-page response to a discovery demand turned up precisely zero instances of mail-in vote fraud.
Richard Salame
August 20 2020, 1:12 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/trump-election-fraud-pennsylvania-court/
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMPS campaign, ordered by a federal court judge in Pennsylvania to back up its claims of fraud in the states vote-by-mail system, has documented only a handful of cases of election fraud in recent years none of which involved mail-in ballots. The revelation, which came in the form of a partially redacted 524-page document produced by the Trump campaign last week, undermines the claim by Trump team operatives that mail-in ballot fraud is a grave risk to Pennsylvania voters.
The campaign is suing Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar and each of the states county election boards to prevent election administrators from providing secure drop boxes for mail-in ballot returns. These drop boxes allow voters to return their mail-in ballots by hand, without sending them through the postal system and risking delays. The Trump campaign alleges that the practice provides fraudsters an easy opportunity to engage in ballot harvesting, manipulate or destroy ballots, manufacture duplicitous votes, and sow chaos.
In a motion last week, Citizens for Pennsylvanias Future and the Sierra Club called on the Trump campaign to provide evidence of the existence of voter fraud, arguing that the campaigns lawsuit was replete with salacious allegations and dire warnings about Pennsylvanias elections and that they must either be compelled to provide discovery concerning their fraud-based allegations or be precluded from pursuing these claims going forward. Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan granted the motion, ordering the campaign to produce such evidence in their possession, and if they have none, state as much.
The response provided by the Trump campaign to the opposing counsel, which was shared with The Intercept and Type Investigations, contains a few scant examples of election fraud but none of the instances in the 524-page discovery document involved mail-in ballots.
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Trump team comes up empty when pressed for evidence of election fraud in court (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Aug 2020
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Blue Owl
(50,289 posts)1. They got nuthin'... just like always...
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)2. Ha ha! Bunch of idiots.
Nevilledog
(51,031 posts)3. I wanna see what the DID submit. Probably FOX & OAN screenshots.