By Paul Bedard | Washington Secrets Columnist
In its first court victory, a Nevada judge has agreed to let the Trump campaign present its evidence that fraud and illegalities plagued the state’s election, enough to reverse Joe Biden's win and set an example for other state challenges.
According to Trump officials, the judge set a Dec. 3
hearing date and is allowing 15 depositions. What’s more, the campaign plans to
present its evidence that could result in the rejection of tens of thousands of
mail-in ballots in Democratic Clark County where Biden ballots outnumbered
Trump ballots by 91,000 in unofficial results.
“BIG news in Nevada: a Judge has allowed NV Republicans
to present findings of widespread voter fraud in a Dec. 3rd hearing. Americans
will now hear evidence from those who saw firsthand what happened—a critical
step for transparency and remedying illegal ballots. Stay tuned,” White House
chief of staff Mark Meadows tweeted.
American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp, one of
those heading the Nevada case, told Secrets, “It gives us a real chance, if to
do nothing else, to begin to show this historic level of fraud.”
Oddly, there has been a virtual news blackout of the
Trump court victory. However, there were major headlines on the state Supreme
Court’s certification of Biden’s victory Tuesday.
In its court filing from Nov. 17, the Trump team made several
allegations of voter fraud, including votes by nonresidents and the dead.
But its biggest claim was that the signatures on
hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots were not verified by human officials,
as required by law.
What’s more, they found that officials used a
machine to verify signatures, apparently against the rules, and even those
machines were plagued with problems.
Schlapp said he is eager to get a chance to finally show
its evidence of fraud and for the campaign to present the thousands of examples
of signature machine errors. Since many states require signature verification,
that is where the campaign’s fraud investigation is focused.
“The biggest thing which is true in all of these states
we're talking about including in Georgia where a third of the ballots were
cast in the mail Nevada half the ballots were cast in the mail, with no legal
signature verification, certainly not in Clark County, that is the big
treasure trove of illegal balloting in all of these states,” he said on Fox
late Tuesday.
The campaign also has testimony from a blind
person who claims somebody else voted for her and that she was barred from
voting as a result. And they plan to present evidence that Native Americans
were offered bribes of TVs and gas cards for their vote.
“Our filing said we have over 15 individual
and tens of thousands more from mail-in fraud. We have enough to
switch the outcome,” Schlapp told us.
Late last night, he revealed the judge’s decision on Sean Hannity’s Fox show. Schlapp said, “For the first time in this whole tragic story of the 2020 presidential election, a state court has granted Republicans in Nevada and the Trump campaign, the ability to present their case of widespread illegal balloting, and to just depose up to 15 people who know what went down in Clark County in the state of Nevada, so this is big news you know a lot of people in the national media have said, you know, if you have evidence of voter fraud, show it. Well, we have thousands and thousands of examples of real people in real-life instances of voter illegality. And I just think it's a great step that we're going to have a chance to present it. A court if we get a fair hearing. I believe the results in Nevada should be switched.”
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ANOTHER
HUGE COURT WIN FOR TRUMP!
Judge
Blocks Certification of Pennsylvania Election Results
BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV | The Epoch Times
A Clark County election worker scans mail-in ballots at
the Clark County Election Department in North Las Vegas, on Nov. 7, 2020.
(Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
A Pennsylvania judge on Nov. 25 ordered state officials
to not certify the results of the 2020 election until her court holds a hearing
on an election contest on Nov. 27.
Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough ordered the state
to not take any further steps to complete the certification of the presidential
race, which the state announced on Nov. 24. She also blocked the certification
of all the other election results.
“To the extent that there remains any further action to
perfect the certification of the results of the 2020 General Election for the
offices of President and Vice President of the United States of America,
respondents are preliminarily enjoined from doing so, pending an evidentiary
hearing to be held on Friday,” the judge wrote in her order (pdf).
“Respondents are preliminarily enjoined from certifying
the remaining results of the election, pending the evidentiary hearing.”
McCullough is presiding over a lawsuit brought by
Republican lawmakers and candidates against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, and the Pennsylvania
General Assembly.
The plaintiffs allege that Pennsylvania’s vote-by-mail
statute—Act 77—is in violation of the state’s constitution.
“Act 77 is the most expansive and fundamental change to
the Pennsylvania voting code, implemented illegally, to date,” the lawsuit,
filed in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, states.
“As with prior historical attempts to illegally expand
mail-in voting by statute, which have been struck down going as far back as the
Military Absentee Ballot Act of 1839, Act 77 is another illegal attempt to
override the limitations on absentee voting prescribed in the Pennsylvania
Constitution, without first following the necessary procedure to amend the
constitution to allow for the expansion.”
The plaintiffs include Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.),
Republican congressional candidate Sean Parnell, and Pennsylvania House of
Representatives candidate Wanda Logan.
The office of Gov. Wolf didn’t immediately respond to a
request by The Epoch Times for comment. It’s unclear what steps remained as of
Nov. 25 to “perfect” the certification of the presidential and
vice-presidential races.
After the Keystone State announced the certification of
the presidential election results on Nov. 24, the plaintiffs filed an emergency
request (pdf) just before midnight, arguing that there was no need to act so
fast. In 2016, Pennsylvania certified the presidential election on Dec. 12.
“It appears that respondents’ actions may have been
accelerated in response to the application for emergency relief … in an effort
to preclude any remedial action by this court faster than this court was able
to evaluate the application for emergency relief and the answers to it,” the
plaintiffs wrote.
The emergency request underlined that while Pennsylvania
completed vote-counting and submitted the signed certification to the U.S.
archivist, a number of steps still remain for the formal certification process
to be completed.
“While Respondents may have proactively attempted to
avoid potential injunctive relief granted by this Court, Respondents duties
with regard to finalization of the full election results are far from
complete,” the filing states.
Marc Elias, one of the top attorneys leading the
Democrats’ post-election legal battles, called the lawsuit frivolous.
“Republican Congressman Mike Kelly has filed a new
frivolous lawsuit in Pennsylvania seeking to block the state from certifying
the election results and having the state legislature choose electors,” Elias
wrote on Twitter on Nov. 21. “This is absolutely shameful.”
President Donald Trump responded to Elias, writing: “This
is not at all frivolous. It is brought on behalf of one of the most respected
members of the United States Congress who is disgusted, like so many others, by
an Election that is a fraudulent mess. Fake ballots, dead people voting, no
Republican Poll Watchers allowed, & more!”
Wolf signed Act 77 into law on Oct. 31, 2019. Eight of
the nine sponsors of the bill in the Pennsylvania Senate were Republicans.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro responded to
the order, saying that it does not affect Tuesday’s appointment of electors.
Later on Wednesday, Boockvar and other state officials
filed a notice of appeal informing the court that they were appealing
McCullough’s decision to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Janita
Kan contributed to this report.
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Ivan on Twitter: @ivanpentchoukov
