Georgia SOS announces recount, audit and recanvass all at once

After the Trump campaign announced Georgia Congressman Doug Collins would head President Trump’s campaign’s recount team in Georgia, Collins called upon Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for three things.

From the Press Release:

1. First, there must be a full comparison of absentee ballots cast and in-person and provisional ballots cast throughout the state.
2. Second, there must be a check for felons and other ineligible persons who may have cast a ballot.
3. Third, and most importantly, the Secretary of State should announce a full hand-count of every ballot cast in each and every county due to widespread allegations of voter irregularities, issues with voting machines, and poll watcher access. We can – and we will – petition for this in court after statewide certification is completed if the Secretary of State fails to act, but we are hopeful he will preemptively take this action today to ensure every Georgian has confidence in our electoral process.

Today Team Leo at Leo Terrell.com reported Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state that election officials in the state will be conducting a recount – by hand – of all ballots cast in the 2020 presidential race.

What is at stake? 16 Electoral College votes.

“This will help build confidence,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said. “It will be an audit, a recount and a recanvas all at once.”

Michigan: Electoral College Timelines looming as November 17 deadline draws near with lawsuits filed

The Electoral College milestone of December 14th is right around the corner. It is the date by which the states are to count and certify popular vote results according to their respective state laws and procedures.

In order for a state secretary of state to meet that deadline, a county, city, school district, water district ---and every special purpose district on that ballot must canvass their results, meet and certify the results of that election.

The Detroit Free Press in Michigan reports on the key date of November 17 looming for all counties across the state.

"Election results are set to be certified at the county level on Nov. 17 and statewide on Nov. 23, barring intervention by a judge. Michigan's chosen slate of participants in the electoral college will formally cast their votes for Biden in December. He will assume the presidency in January."

Big Media in Michigan doesn't get to decide who won the Presidential Election. And County Examiner suggested readers look for indications the counties, states would have difficulties meeting those deadlines.

But it's become clear why Big Media rushed to push Joe Biden over the finish line last Saturday November 7th.

It was an effort to get a media narrative out in front of the American people knowing the day prior---on November 6th---Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Diane Stephens---Case No. 20-000225-issued an opinion and order--that not enough evidence was presented by the Trump campaign and that it was all hearsay.

Isn't that was everyone is screaming about? There's not enough!, there's not enough!

Judge Stephens also wrote the Trump campaign complaint and emergency motion were not filed until approximately 4:00 p.m. on November 4, 2020— despite being announced to various media outlets much earlier in the day. By the time this action was filed, the votes had largely been counted, and the counting was complete.

Is she saying they completed their count on Election Day? Hmmm.

But hers was not a FINAL ORDER. Nor did it close the case or resolve the "ballot drop box video" claims.

Meanwhile earlier this morning the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in the Western District of Michigan ---in Federal Court ---with what they hope will be "enough"---testimony of challengers and words of Michigan's very own Secretary of State about media drives and machine "glitches", seeking 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.

And that complaint addresses the "drop box video issue" too. 

Will this be "enough"? Enough to get to a "discovery phase? Enough to force the exclusion of ballots counted on defective machines with defective software from the tally? Enough to demonstrate ballots should be hand counted to ensure an accurate count?

Or is the Michigan election so systemically corrupted all eyes will turn to their state legislature? 

Watch Maria Bartiromo explain there's 69,000-115,000 ballots in question in Michigan.

EVIDENCE: Michigan officials start eating their own as Trump campaign files suit in MI

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:

1. 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)
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Secretary of State Benson made a public statement blaming the Wayne County clerk for not updating "media drives". (page 21-22)
5. 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

Florida, Texas among 17 states challenging PA extending Election Day beyond Nov 3

Florida and Texas are among seventeen states (think "interested parties") asking the United States Supreme Court to grant review and reverse the Pennsylvania Supreme Courts' extension of  Election Day three days beyond November 3 through judicial fiat.

I'm writing this in simple, easy to understand terms, so please no emails from lawyers that I'm not using Black's Law Dictionary.

According to Supreme Court.gov the States of Ohio and Oklahoma, and in a filing by the State of Missouri the following states assert the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overstepped its constitutional responsibility, encroached on the authority of the Pennsylvania legislature, and violated the plain language of the Election Clauses of the U.S. Constituion:

• Ohio, 
• Oklahoma, 
• Missouri, 
• Alabama, 
• Arkansas, 
• Florida, 
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Kentucky, 
• Louisiana, 
• Mississippi,
• Nebraska 
• South Carolina, 
• South Dakota, 
• Tennessee
• Texas
• West Virginia

As we've pledged as of the launch of this site, County Examiner will continue to publish links to court websites and documents.

A 4–3 majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court does not get to extend November 3 Election Day 2020 by three days to November 6th through judicial activism.

*A very special "Thank you" to Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Florida and Ken Paxton, Attorney General, Texas

Fox News anchor: "What's Happening? We CALLED it?"

County Examiner encouraged readers to learn the 2020 Electoral College Timelines (go here) and ignore the Big Media fabrication of "calling" the election based on garbage statistical, modelling of "decision desks".

We shared a photo of the Washington Times headline from November 8, 2000 (source: The Mitchell Archives) which screamed "PRESIDENT GORE" as a reminder that Big Media doesn't get to determine the outcome of any election. PERIOD.

We will never ever again accept Big Media rejecting the Rule of Law and our Electoral College processes. Nor will we accept the crowning of the title "President-Elect" by elected officials when it is a media fabrication.

Watch Fox News anchor Sandra Smith in this video of a live feed as she is on hot mic asking "what's happening? We called it?"

The guest was Cleta Mitchell, a Washington DC-based lawyer, who was arguing on behalf of President Donald Trump's continued legal fights against the election results. Mitchell was also objecting to Fox News and other media outlets calling Joe Biden the winner.

Count Every Legal Vote. 

Follow the Constitution, the Electoral College Timeline and the Rule of Law.

Watch them panic.

WaPo panicked as Trump GSA official stands firm on the Rule of Law and Presidential Transition Act

Watch for many more signs of Big Media panic as they dig into and read media accounts of why President Trump and his Administration stand with the U.S. Constitution and the Rule of Law---this time in adhering to the Presidential Tranisition Act.

Read County Examiners previous article on The Act here and on the Electoral College Timeline here.

From the Washington Post:

A Trump administration appointee is refusing to sign a letter allowing President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team to formally begin its work this week, in another sign the incumbent president has not acknowledged Biden’s victory and could disrupt the transfer of power.

The administrator of the General Services Administration, the low-profile agency in charge of federal buildings, has a little-known role when a new president is elected: to sign paperwork officially turning over millions of dollars, as well as give access to government officials, office space in agenices and equipment authorized for the taxpayer-funded transition teams of the winner.

It amounts to a formal declaration by the federal government, ouside of the media, of the winner of the presidential race."

Presidential Transition Act, investigations and records from prior WH Administrations

With the Big Media narrative of "declaring" their Big Media-fabricated term "President-Elect" (think "assault weapon") underway, ask yourselves what's next? 

Yesterday County Examiner published the 2020 President Electoral College Timeline; the important milestones associated with the sequential processes culminating with the joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes and declare the President and Vice President to be elected.

Where are the widespread Big Media reporting of  the Presidential Transition Act ? 

..."In passing the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, Congress explained: “Any disruption occasioned by the transfer of the executive power could produce results detrimental to the safety and well-being of the United States and its people.” To promote the orderly transfer of power, Congress established a framework for the federal government to prepare for a transition from one president to another."

The Act establishes an early and organized cadence for the federal government’s transition planning:

• Before the election, each agency must designate a senior career official who will be in charge of transition planning, prepare transition briefing materials, and ensure that succession plans are in place so that as political appointees depart, career officials are prepared to step in place until new political appointees arrive.

• Six months before an election, the President must establish a White House Transition Coordinating Council, chaired by a senior employee of the Executive Office of the President and consisting of other high-level officials, such as cabinet officers; the Directors of the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Government Ethics; the Administrator of GSA; and the Archivist of the United States. A transition representative of the major candidates also sits on the council. The council provides guidance to agencies on transition and facilitates communications between the administration and the transition teams.

• The Act requires a standing Agency Transition Directors Council, co-chaired by GSA’s Federal Transition Coordinator and the Office of Management and Budget’s Deputy Director for Management, and including agency senior career officials responsible for transition activities as well as transition representative of the major candidates. This working-level council works toward an integrated, government-wide approach to transition and ensures that briefing materials are prepared.

In accordance with the Act, the required reports are published here on the General Services Administration website.

As you scan the reports, think about the ethics training, the DoD background investigations underway and documents from prior White House Administrations that are archived as required by the Presidential Records Act. 

Media will panic when they learn about the Electoral College calendar and deadlines

 Are you shocked an Average Jo Senior Citizen found the 2020 Electoral College 2020 Presidential Timeline and will report on it yet Big Media won't? And unlike Big Media when County Examiner writes about legal issues we provide links to ACTUAL DOCUMENTS so you can read them yourself.

These dates are important milestones associated with the sequential processes culminating with the joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes and declare the President and Vice President to be elected. 

Expect Big Media to panic should states experience, ahem, "difficulty" meeting these deadlines. 

The electoral college timeline is governed by the U.S. Code at 3 U.S.C. §§1-18, the Twelfth and Twentieth Amendments to the Constitution, and state laws and political party rules.

According to a Congressional Research Service (CRS)--that would be located in the D.C. Swamp---document dated October 22, 2020 these key Electoral College dates for the 2020 Presidential include:

• November 3, 2020: General Election Day
• November 4-December 14, 2020: Counting Popular Votes and Filing Certificates of Ascertainment
• December 8, 2020: The “Safe Harbor” Deadline
• December 14, 2020: Electors Vote in Their States
• December 23, 2020: Certificates Must Be Delivered to the Designated Officials, including Failure to Deliver Certificates by December 23
  

On Tuesday November 3rd:

"The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President." 3 U.S. Code § 1

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) November 5, 2020

                   

Between now and December 14th, the states:

"are to count and certify popular vote results according to their respective statutory and procedural requirements. 

When the states have completed their vote counts and ascertained the official results, the U.S. Code (3 U.S.C. §6) requires the state governors to prepare, “as soon as practicable,” documents known as Certificates of Ascertainment of the vote. 

The certificates must list the names of the electors chosen by the voters and the number of votes received in the popular election results, also the names of all losing candidates for elector, and the number of votes they received. Certificates of Ascertainment, which are often signed by state governors, must carry the seal of the state. 

One copy is forwarded to the Archivist of the United States (the Archivist), while six duplicates of the Certificate of Ascertainment must be provided to the electors by December 14, the date on which they meet."

Ballotpedia lists estimated canvassing and election results certifications dates for the 50 states, DC and the Territories. 

What states to keep our eyes on next?

November 10 is a key date for Virginia, Vermont, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Louisiana canvassing, verification and results certifications.