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It's bad when Brian Kemp has to remind Trump it's illegal to interfere in elections

Unbelievable. And, it's even worse in Michigan (Gas Bag may jump overboard into Lake Michigan from his "yacht" when the inevitable result of this farce comes down in about, oh, 20 minutes). Problem is, Twittler Twats don't like it when black people vote in large numbers, and the first 2 sentences of the article show they WANT this, and they WANT that. People in Hell WANT ice water, and, THAT ain't happening, either, lol.




Trump allies to Michigan judge: Force Gov. Whitmer to overturn Biden's win, give state to president

Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press Tue, December 1, 2020, 7:19 AM PST·5 min read

Allies of President Donald Trump want a federal court in Michigan to force state leaders to set aside election results and award its 16 electoral votes to the president.
A separate conservative group also wants the Michigan Supreme Court to invalidate the results that show President-elect Joe Biden won the state.
The latest lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Michigan and before the state's highest court, rely on unfounded allegations of widespread fraud and misconduct that judges in the state and across the country have previously rejected. Neither has a high likelihood of success.
There is no evidence of mass fraud or wrongdoing that affected election operations in Michigan or elsewhere. Biden earned roughly 154,000 more votes than Trump in Michigan.
More: Trump again falsely claims he won Michigan and that Detroit had more voters than people
More: Trump withdraws federal lawsuit in Michigan, citing Wayne County canvasser affidavits
Last week, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers formally certified the results.
But the federal lawsuit, filed by Trump-affiliated attorney Sidney Powell and a cadre of other lawyers, wants a judge to force Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to "decertify" those results. They want to act before Dec. 14, when the Electoral College is set to meet and Biden will receive the more than 270 votes needed to formally secure the presidency.
"The multifaceted schemes and artifices implemented by defendants and their collaborators to defraud resulted in the unlawful counting, or manufacturing, of hundreds of thousands of illegal, ineligible, duplicate or purely fictitious ballots in the State of Michigan, that constitute a multiple of Biden’s purported lead in the State," the lawsuit reads in part.
Although the city of Detroit is not named in the lawsuit, it's seeking to intervene. Lawyers for the city argue the allegations of misconduct focus on Detroit, so the city should be allowed to have a say in the proceedings.
“This lawsuit dredges up baseless conspiracy theories that have been debunked and rejected every time they have been reviewed by a court. This particular suit is filed by an attorney whose claims are so detached from reality that even the Trump campaign has disavowed any association with her," said David Fink, lead attorney representing Detroit.
On Sunday, those filing the lawsuit reiterated their request for a judge to take immediate action. They also asked the judge to let them file several additional documents under seal, meaning they would not be widely accessible. They argue the people making the documents have such sensitive information that being named publicly and providing these details would risk endangering themselves and their families.
The lawsuit relies on a series of debunked or discredited theories. That includes allegations that ballot tabulating software crafted by confederates of deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez helped further a massive international conspiracy against Trump, carried out in Michigan and other swing states in order to secure Biden's victory.
More: Election 2020 live updates: Michigan certifies election results finding Biden the winner
More: Fact check: Trump lawyer Sidney Powell falsely stated he won election 'by a landslide'
While the lawsuit provides hundreds of pages of exhibits with the filing, no judge or impartial authority has found any of the statements or reports to be credible or consider them actual evidence of wrongdoing.
Tiffany Brown, communications director for Whitmer, reiterated comments the governor made after the state certified its election results.
"We will not comment on pending litigation, other than to say that the people of Michigan have spoken and the votes have been certified for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris," Brown said in a statement Monday.
"President-elect Biden won the State of Michigan by more than 154,000 votes — more than 14 times Donald Trump’s 2016 margin. It’s time to put country over party, and time for us to put this election behind us and unite together to defeat our common enemy: COVID-19.
Ryan Jarvi, a spokesman for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, said their office is reviewing the lawsuit and determining appropriate action.
Powell has asserted similar allegations in lawsuits in several other states. Although she made some of these allegations at joint appearances with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani later disavowed her in a national news release.
Republicans, including Trump supporter and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, have criticized the president's legal team.
The Trump campaign and its supporters have either lost or withdrawn each of their lawsuits. In cases where judges have ruled, they have determined the campaign lacked evidence. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kenny determined allegations made by supporters about conduct at TCF Center in Detroit were "incorrect and not credible."
More: State Senate committee to hold election hearing as Trump campaign touts 'review'
More: Michigan GOP leaders say COVID-19 assistance, not election, focus of White House meeting
Last week, Giuliani announced a series of hearings involving state lawmakers in Michigan and other states related to election results. While the Senate Oversight Committee does plan to met Tuesday to discuss vote counting at TCF, a Senate committee spokeswoman has said the meeting was previously scheduled and "is not at all related to Trump."
State lawmakers already issued subpoenas and scheduled hearings in relation to election operations.
Also last week, a conservative law firm asked the Michigan Supreme Court to invalidate state election results. The Amistad Project, part of the Thomas More Society, made similar allegations of fraud and misconduct in a news release, focusing on the uptick in absentee ballot requests in the state.
Benson and the state have won other lawsuits focused on absentee ballots; earlier this year, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled the state acted legally when Benson's office sent unsolicited absentee ballot applications to registered voters in the state.
 

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A witness in Trump ally Sidney Powell's lawsuits says the voting results in 'Edison County' indicate fraud. No such place exists.








Jacob ShamsianTue, December 1, 2020, 9:19 AM PST·4 min read



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Sidney Powell. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
  • A lawsuit in Michigan pushed by allies of President Donald Trump are seeking to fight what voters decided and declare him the winner of the state's electoral votes.
  • To bolster its case, it includes an affidavit from Navid Keshavarz-Nia, a cybersecurity expert who alleges the election data indicates widespread fraud (extensive research and other experts refute such claims).
  • The affidavit says that President-elect Joe Biden won "more than 100% of the votes" in a county that doesn't exist.
  • Keshavarz-Nia also said he hasn't actually analyzed the voting machines used in the 2020 election.
  • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
A witness in a lawsuit from allies of President Donald Trump trying to overturn democracy in Michigan said that the vote count in Edison County "are cause for concern and indicate fraud" because President-elect Joe Biden won "more than 100% of the votes."
There's just one problem: There is no Edison County in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press pointed out.
In fact, there is no Edison County in the entire United States of America.
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The claim comes from Navid Keshavarz-Nia, who describes himself in the affidavit as a cybersecurity expert working at a defense contractor and has received training from several government agencies. The affidavit is included as an exhibit appended to a lawsuit filed last week by people working with Sidney Powell, a former member of the Trump campaign's legal team.
Keshavarz-Nia's nonsensical claim about Edison County drew widespread attention with a tweet from Jonathan Oosting, a reporter at the nonprofit news organization Bridge Michigan.
The typo-peppered lawsuit makes many of the same wildly conspiratorial arguments Powell made at a press conference that led to her ouster from Trump's legal team: That the now-dead Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez used voting machines to manipulate election results in his own country, and the very same machines are now being used to manipulate 2020 election results. There's no evidence of the claim, and the companies named in Powell's lawsuits have debunked the arguments made in her lawsuits.
The witness says he hasn't actually looked at the voting machines

In the affidavit, Keshavarz-Nia sais he has not analyzed any of the voting machines used in the 2020 election but argued there's "evidence of fraud" based on his analysis of election data.
Much of that data is simply false or based on a misunderstanding of how election data is reported.
It's not clear if Keshavarz-Nia had another county in mind when referring to a vote count of more than 100% in "Edison County," but some internet sleuths have made claims about more than 100% of particular counties voting by relying on outdated voter record information or simply using the wrong datasets, USA Today and Reuters have reported.
In another part of the affidavit, Keshavarz-Nia writes that President Donald Trump's lead in Pennsylvania dropped at a rate faster than votes can be counted. But the votes were simply reported by precincts in the timespan he indicates, not actually counted at that time.
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Members of President Donald Trump's legal team, Sidney Powell, right, with Jenna Ellis, left, attend a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington. AP Photo/Jacquelyn MartinEven though Keshavarz-Nia testified to not analyzing the machines used in the 2020 election, Powell's lawsuit cites his affidavit to argue that "hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump in the 2020 general election were transferred to former Vice-President Biden" — which is not true.
The lawsuit ultimately asks a federal judge to force Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to ignore voters and "transmit certified election results that state that President Donald Trump is the winner of the election."
Michigan has already certified its election results, granting its 16 electoral votes to Biden. The Trump campaign itself withdrew a federal lawsuit trying to challenge the state's election results, and three other lawsuits filed by Republican-aligned groups failed, with the judges overseeing the cases finding no evidence of fraud.
Keshavarz-Nia couldn't be reached for comment, and Powell did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
 

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