Today the Donald J. Trump re-election campaign filed a federal lawsuit in Michigan citing multiple witness accounts of irregularities, incompetence, and unlawful vote counting. The suit also documents how defendant Wayne County used faulty ballot tabulators that miscounted votes for President Trump as votes for the Biden-Harris ticket.
From the Press release:
"The federal suit was filed in the Western District of Michigan against Wayne County and the Michigan Secretary of State on behalf of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and individual Michigan citizens and voters seeking declaratory and emergency injunctive relief. With this lawsuit, we seek to stop certification of Michigan election results until defendants have verified and confirmed ballots were cast and tabulated in accord with the law and to ensure no unlawful ballots were cast."
The complaint and exhibits can be found here.
Key points:
- As outlined in the complaint, in the State of Michigan Secretary of State Benson and Michigan officials have responsibility to ensure only legal ballots cast by lawful voters are counted in a uniform manner across the entire state. (page 14) Challengers testified this did not happen in Wayne County (home of Detroit)
- The Michigan Elections Officials Manual instructs local officials that if a ballot is rejected by a tabulation machine, the ballot must be duplicated onto a new ballot and this duplication process observed by bi-partisan observers. Challengers testified the duplication process was not observed by bi-partisan teams as required by the Manual.
- In October Michigan changed election code to allow for multiple mail ballots drop box locations, however only the lawful voter may be in possession of the ballot to drop it into the drop-box. Additionally Michigan election code requires local official who set up theses mail ballot drop-box locations must use video monitoring to monitor that process.
- Secretary of State Benson made a public statement blaming the Wayne County clerk for not updating "media drives". (page 21-22)
- In Oakland County a Democrat was wrongly declared the winner of a commissioner race by 104 votes. After a computer issue caused the double-counting of votes, the Republican in the race became the winner by a vote count of over 1100 votes. (Page 22-23)
There are many more issues.
To summarize, the lawsuit seeks to prevent Wayne County from including unlawful ballots in their canvassing procedures and asks Wayne County to exclude ballots counted on defective machines with defective software from the tally or letting the county hand count these ballots to ensure an accurate count.
County Examiner suggested readers watch for signals that counties and states would have "difficulty" meeting Electoral College Timelines.
Exit questions: how many votes were counted in Wayne County for Joe Biden? How many for President Trump? Current status here. Over 600,000.
- Can Wayne County count these ballots by hand and produce an accurate count in accordance with the Electoral College Timeline? Hmmm.
- Expect the Left and Big Media to scream "but there's not enough votes to change the outcome!"
- But is there a preponderance of the evidence for a judge to grant discovery? Depositions of Secretary Benson and other election officials under oath? Production of manuals, emails, machine testing & certification records in the possession of election officials? Will chain of custody issues surface?
UPDATE: The filings, exhibits are in PACER. Case 1:20-cv-01083
