Judd Legum: I just read the complaint the Trump campaign filed in Michigan and it's a doozy.

[Nevilledog]

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Judd Legum
@JuddLegum
1. I just read the complaint the Trump campaign filed in Michigan and it’s a doozy.

The Trump campaign made it sound like it was about observing vote counting but its really more about dropboxes.

Let’s dig in
3:28 PM · Nov 4, 2020

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1. I just read the complaint the Trump campaign filed in Michigan and it’s a doozy.

The Trump campaign made it sound like it was about observing vote counting but its really more about dropboxes.

Let’s dig in

2. The campaign cites a new Michigan law that requires dropboxes to be under video surveillance

It doesn’t allege that didn’t happen. The Trump campaign want access to the videos.

We are talking about hundreds or thousands of hours of videos of boxes

3. What authority does the Trump campaign cite to prove they are entitled to this video? None. They just assert its part of the process of observing the count

The statute however specifically says observers can watch mail ballots be processed

Nothing about video

But let’s imagine, somehow, that the Trump campaign was successful. What are they looking for? Antifa stuffing a bunch of ballots?

Even if you saw something suspicious, how could you connect that to even one ballot

And Trump trails by 60K+ votes

5. In short, this isn’t a serious lawsuit. The Trump campaign wanted to sat they were suing in Michigan and this is the best they were able to come up with. Which tells you a lot.
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[SheltieLover]

1. Bs!

They are nuts!

[Newest Reality]

2. Let the frivolity ensue.

[soothsayer]

3. Nothing more than a tweet with a filing fee, as someone called it

[Nevilledog]

5. Love that.

[intrepidity]

4. They think that if they show somebody depositing more than one ballot

(like, you know, with a drive-up box, the passenger hands their ballot to the driver to drop in) that they can then dispute ?? who knows how many.

They are desperate, obviously.

[DFW]

6. I think that one judge described their efforts perfectly

"Twitter with a filing fee."

[The Magistrate]

7. That's A Doozy, Ma'am

A real gold plate Duesenberg.

[abqtommy]

8. Hey tRUMP, stupidity is what you get when you don't pay your lawyers!

[ecstatic]

9. Maybe the plan is to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court

At which point, the Illegitimate ACB will pay the debt owed.

[treestar]

10. I hope they get Rule 11 thrown at them

for filing frivolous suits.

[iluvtennis]

11. Suing on a technicality - this is a BIG FAT NOTHING BURGER. nt

[Maine-i-acs]

12. the strategy is: If you can't get ALL the videos, then you can't say that the boxes were secured

therefore can't prove that they weren't stuffed or tampered with.

[Nevilledog]

13. Yeah, that's now how it works.

[JohnnyRingo]

15. Burdon of proof in not on the Board Of Elections.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. "Hey! That black guy already voted six times".

They all look alike to Stephen Miller.

[MurrayDelph]

16. U think they want access to the video

so they can delay certification until after December 14, so they can name their own electors.

[jcgoldie]

17. hundreds of thousands of hours...

Eric! I gotta job for you watchin TV!

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Depositing a ballot is not the process of counting

[My Pet Orangutan]

19. Only the best lawyers

[Roy Rolling]

20. Give them 300 hours of video

And 3 hours to look at it, finished by Thursday noon. I don’t see a problem.😂😂

[greenjar_01]

21. Difference in Michigan now 120,000 votes

[MerryBlooms]

22. trump's 'lawyers' are lawyers in the vaguest sense of the word.