Oh, I have been. GOP is 0 for 5 in court battles as of yesterday.
Detroit: GOP claimed observers were being excluded in the curing process. That process, is when a ballot cannot be read by a machine due to stray marks or stains on the ballot. They duplicate the ballot to have it counted. GOP went on to say they had "Information and belief" that this process was done without GOP observers. When asked a judge to delay certifying Detroit's results, Judge said "Nope, GOP's evdience of misconduct was "mere speculation." adding "The City of Detroit should not be harmed when there is no evidence to support accusations of voter fraud," Judge Timothy M. Kenny wrote.
In another suit, Trump's campaign asked a judge to stop processing all absentee ballots. Here, a GOP observer said she'd been given a sticky note by an unnamed poll worker, alleging that late-arriving ballots were being counted improperly. Fine. But she couldn't provide the poll workers name. What a coincidence. Or any other proof, for that matter. "By the time this action was filed, the votes had largely been counted, and the counting is now complete," Judge Cynthia Diane Stephens wrote.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel raised another series of claims during a news conference in Bloomfield Hills, MI alleging that election workers in Detroit were told to backdate certain bqallots. Detroit officials denied the accusation.
McDaniel acknowledged that her allegations had not been fully vetted and said the information had been shared with federal prosecuters. A DOJ official said the info McDaniel provided has been referred to the FBI. It was unclear what, if any, action the FBI took. An FBI spokeswoman in Detroit referred a reporter to the US attorney's office, which declined to comment. What a shame.
McDaniel asserted that 2k GOP ballots in Rochester Hills had been "given to Democrats... due to a clerical error." Too bad she couldn't elaborate.
Tina Barton, GOP clerk of Rochester Hills said in a video posted on Twitter that McDaniel was referring to an "Isolated mistake that was -QUICKLY- rectified. Then, called her allegation "categorically false."
Quote: "As a Republican, I am disturbed that this is intentionally being mischaracterized to undermine the election process." Barton later said in an interview that there was indeed a technical issue that temporrarily created duplicate results when mail ballots were scanned. However, this was immediately fixed.
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