By Joel Pollak | Breitbart
Rudy Giuliani and other lawyers representing President Donald Trump’s campaign outlined their case Thursday that the Nov. 3 presidential election was so deeply flawed in several key states that the results should be overturned in the president’s favor.
Giuliani said there was a pattern to the
alleged irregularities in key states that suggested, he said, a “plan from
a centralized place” to commit voter fraud in cities controlled by Democrats.
He said widespread adoption of vote-by-mail
had allowed Democrats to take big-city corruption practices nationwide. “They
picked the places where they could get away with it.”
Here are the key allegations the lawyers presented:
1. Observers were allegedly prevented from
watching mail-in ballots being opened. Giuliani said that many mail-in
ballots were opened without observers being able to check that they were
properly signed, a key protection against fraud. Those votes, he said, were
“null and void,” especially where the envelopes had been discarded, making
recounts useless.
2. Allegedly unequal application of the law
in Democratic counties. In Pennsylvania, whose state supreme court created
new, relaxed voting rules before the election, Giuliani alleged that absentee
voters in Democratic counties were allowed to “cure” defects in their ballots,
while voters in Republican counties, which obeyed the state law as written,
were not.
3. Voters allegedly arrived at the polls to
discover other people had voted for them. Giuliani said that many
provisional ballots cast in Pittsburgh were submitted by people who showed up
to vote in person, only to be told that they had voted already. He alleged that
Democrats had filled out absentee ballots for other people, hoping they would
not show up.
4. Election officials
were allegedly told not to look for defects in ballots, and to
backdate ballots. Giuliani cited an affidavit from an official who swore
she was told not to exclude absentee ballots for defects, and to backdate
ballots so they would not appear to have been received after Election Day, to
avoid a Supreme Court order to sequester those ballots.
5. Ballots casting votes for Joe Biden and no
other candidates were allegedly run several times through machines. Giuliani
said that there were 60 witnesses in Michigan who would attest to ballots being
“produced” quickly and counted twice or thrice. He said that a minimum of
60,000 ballots, and a maximum of 100,000 ballots, were allegedly affected.
6. Absentee ballots were accepted in
Wisconsin without being applied for first. Giuliani noted that Wisconsin
state law was stricter regarding absentee ballots than most other states are,
yet alleged that 60,000 absentee ballots were counted in the Milwaukee area,
and 40,000 in the Madison area, without having been applied for properly by the
voters who cast them.
7. There were allegedly “overvotes,” with
some precincts allegedly recording more voters than residents, among other
problems. Giuliani said there was an unusually large number of overvotes
in precincts in Michigan and in Wisconsin, which he alleged was the reason that
Republicans on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers had refused to certify the
results there this week. He also alleged that there were some out-of-state voters
in Georgia, and people who had cast votes twice there.
8. Voting machines and software are
allegedly owned by companies with ties to the Venezuelan regime and to
left-wing donor George Soros. Sidney Powell argued that U.S. votes were
being counted overseas, and that Dominion voting machines and Smartmatic
software were controlled by foreign interests, manipulating algorithms to
change the results. Powell noted specifically that Smartmatic’s owners included
two Venezuelan nationals, whom she alleged had ties to the regime of Hugo
Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. The legal team alleged that there were statistical
anomalies, such as huge batches of votes for Biden, that could not be explained
except as manipulation — which, they alleged, happened in the wee hours of the
morning as vote-counting had stalled. (The companies have disputed these allegations vigorously.)
9. The Constitution provides a process for
electing a president if the vote is corrupted. Jenna Ellis argued that the
media, had usurped the power to declare the winner of the election. She made
the point, citing Federalist
No. 68, that the constitutional process of selecting a president had
procedural safeguards against corruption and foreign influence.
Giuliani said that the campaign believed that enough votes were flawed — more
than double the margins between Biden and Trump in key states — that the
president had a path to victory.
Giuliani presented evidence in the form of
sworn affidavits, citing two and noting that the campaign had many more from
private individuals.
He noted that several lawsuits that had been
dismissed had been filed by private individuals, not the campaign directly. He
said lawsuits might be filed in Arizona, and that the campaign was also
examining irregularities in New Mexico and Virginia, though he said he did not
think there were enough disputed votes in the latter.
Giuliani also took on the media, arguing that
they had provided misleading information and condoned threats against Trump’s
legal team.
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Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at
Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on
Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7
p.m. PT). His newest e-book is The
Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency. His
recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic
presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the
2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
