Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government MADISON, Wisconsin — President Trump’s reelection campaign is filing a lawsuit in federal court in an attempt to keep Michigan from certifying its results until the voting process can be reviewed.
The lawsuit is set to be filed Tuesday evening, exactly one week from the election, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The lawsuit alleges several instances of electoral malfeasance and includes sworn affidavits, said Matt Morgan, general counsel for Trump’s reelection campaign, during a press call.
Trump’s team filed a lawsuit in Michigan court the day after the election, alleging that a plaintiff who was “credentialed and trained as an election challenger” was “excluded from the counting board during the absent voter ballot review process.” A Michigan judge ruled against that lawsuit on Thursday.
The new federal lawsuit claims that many Republican poll watchers in Wayne County, where Detroit is located, were excluded from the absentee ballot counting process and were intimidated and harassed. It also seeks information about the voting technology used across the state after a failure to update software in Antrim County caused a glitch, resulting in 6,000 votes incorrectly being tabulated for Joe Biden rather than Trump.
“The complaint is based on affidavits showing that designated challengers were denied meaningful observation as required by law,” Morgan said, adding that there was testimony of “derogatory language” used against Republicans at the TCF Center, the central location where Wayne County absentee ballots were tabulated.
Morgan said that the complaint will request that Michigan’s secretary of state not certify the election results “until we have been able to verify and confirm that the ballots that were cast were tabulated according to the law.”
Thor Hearne, counsel to the Trump campaign, said during the call that irregularities in Wayne County were “pervasive.”
Presumptive President-elect Joe Biden was ahead of Trump in Michigan by 146,123 votes, with 50.6% of the vote, compared to Trump’s 47.9%. When asked during the press call if the campaign realistically thinks that Trump could pull off a win in the Wolverine State given such a large margin, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh didn’t exactly say.
“Every time we file a lawsuit we do so because we believe the lawsuit has merit and because we believe that we will win it,” Murtaugh said. “And every filing and every action that we are taking, [is] getting us closer to the goal of seeing the president reelected … We do believe that ultimately President Trump will be declared the winner of this election.”
Michigan election officials have denied that any fraud occurred during the election, and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has praised this year’s voting process.
“In Michigan, I am proud to confirm that all valid ballots, and only valid ballots, have been counted, securely, and accurately and that our election results reflect the will of the people,” Benson said.
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jocelyn benson doubling down on stupid as well as criminal, a real twofer.