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Showing Original Post only (View all)TRUMP COMES UP EMPTY WHEN PRESSED FOR EVIDENCE OF ELECTION FRAUD IN COURT [View all]
In both the the Texas voter id and the Kobach proof of citizenship needed to register to vote the cases, the GOP could provide no evidence of voter fraud in the real world. In the Penn , trump is suing to block vote by mail and the court asked for proof of voter fraud. Guess what happen
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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.
Not only did the campaign fail to provide evidence that voter fraud was a widespread problem in Pennsylvania, they failed to provide any evidence that any misconduct occurred in the primary election or that so-called voter fraud is any sort of regular problem in Pennsylvania, said Suzanne Almeida, interim director of Common Cause PA, one of the parties in the lawsuit. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.
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.
Not only did the campaign fail to provide evidence that voter fraud was a widespread problem in Pennsylvania, they failed to provide any evidence that any misconduct occurred in the primary election or that so-called voter fraud is any sort of regular problem in Pennsylvania, said Suzanne Almeida, interim director of Common Cause PA, one of the parties in the lawsuit. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.
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TRUMP COMES UP EMPTY WHEN PRESSED FOR EVIDENCE OF ELECTION FRAUD IN COURT [View all]
Gothmog
Aug 2020
OP
Right When a Party Presents "No Evidence" on an Essential Issue a Judge is Left with No Discretion
Stallion
Aug 2020
#22
you want evidence? all trump has to do is get limbaugh into court to confirm to the judge
certainot
Aug 2020
#36
OBJECTION: Hearsay Plus Limpballs Can't Qualify as an Expert on Election Ballots
Stallion
Aug 2020
#37
hearsay! 1500 radio stations reaching 50 mil/wk are proof it's not hearsay!!!!! and how can anyone
certainot
Aug 2020
#43
Every case of voter fraud I've ever heard of, has been committed by Reptilicans.
lagomorph777
Aug 2020
#10
Fifty Million Anecdotal Accounts of Mail-In Voter Fraud on Right Wing Forums
Lonesome Beet
Aug 2020
#11
Courts did not accept this in either Texas voter id or the Kobach voter registration cases
Gothmog
Aug 2020
#19
In FOXworld, an accusation rises to the level of proof when a Democrat is targeted
Mr. Ected
Aug 2020
#18
The purpose is to delay and besmirch, not to win. They don't care if they look like clowns.
maxsolomon
Aug 2020
#25
The courts should have made the trump campaign pay all of the legal costs of both the defendant's
SWBTATTReg
Aug 2020
#27
It was TrumpSpeak ... the "grave threat" was not to the elections, it was to ... Trump
bucolic_frolic
Aug 2020
#30
We in PA have only had "no excuse" vote by mail for the very first time this past primary election
BumRushDaShow
Aug 2020
#35
It's like when some bot or idiot troll makes some ridiculous claim and then
Grokenstein
Aug 2020
#44