Michigan
A Michigan judge threw out a Trump campaign lawsuit last week seeking an order that the Secretary of State provide “meaningful access” for observers to watch ballot counting and allow it to view videotaped surveillance of ballot drop boxes.
The judge said the secretary had already issued a directive providing access to observers, the counting was complete, and there was no legal basis to provide videos. The judge dismissed as hearsay an affidavit from a Republican poll watcher in Detroit alleging she heard about a date on a ballot being improperly altered.
SWSUN 发表评论于 2020-11-10 21:31:12
Georgia
The Trump campaign and Georgia Republicans went to court the day after the election, alleging the Chatham County Board of Elections had improperly intermingled ineligible ballots with valid ones.
A judge dismissed the case the next day for lack of evidence. Colin McRae, chairman of the Chatham County Board of Registrars, told a judge he looked at all 53 ballots in question, and they all had been received before the 7 p.m. deadline on Election Day. He said 41 absentee ballots were received after the deadline and were placed in a secure location to ensure they were not counted.
Arizona
The Trump campaign has sued in Maricopa County, alleging Arizona voters were given Sharpie markers to make selections, and when vote tabulation machines flagged some ballots as defective, poll workers improperly overrode the warnings and caused some votes to go uncounted.
State elections officials have denied ballots were tabulated improperly. They say Sharpies work best because they dry instantly and don’t smear. In a letter to Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ office decried “Sharpiegate” as an “unfounded conspiracy theory.”
SWSUN 发表评论于 2020-11-10 21:28:47
Pennsylvania
In the suit filed Monday night, the Trump campaign claims mail-in voting did not include the same safeguards as in-person voting, including adequate verification of voters’ identities and monitoring by observers. It took issue with the counting of ballots received up to three days after the election.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the extension.
In state court, the Trump campaign argued that one of its observers was kept too far away from ballot counting in Philadelphia.
A trial-level court ruled there had been no violation of the state’s election code. However, an appeals court overturned that ruling and directed that the observer be allowed to get within six feet of the counting process, subject to COVID-19 protections. On Monday, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court agreed to consider an appeal of that ruling.
