Michigan Lawsuit Seeks to Throw Out 1.2 Million Votes, Flipping State for Trump
A new federal lawsuit in Michigan was filed this week, seeking to throw out about 1.2 million votes, changing the results to the election in the state to favor President Donald Trump.
According to 9 & 10 News, four Michigan voters filed the lawsuit, claiming votes in Wayne, Ingham and Washtenaw counties should not be counted in the presidential election.
The reasons for filing the lawsuit are the same as the other counting lawsuit in the state. It also cited clerical errors, accused excluding Republican poll challengers, software glitch, illegal votes, and backdated ballots.
According to Michigan Live, the main reason is allegations of voter fraud and the suit is mostly a rehash of earlier allegations in other lawsuits.
It was filed in the U.S. District Court in West Michigan.
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The three counties covered in the suit are Democratic strongholds, said The Blaze. They favor Biden by a ratio of two is to one if compared to voters who favor Trump.
If the court finds it appropriate to throw out the millions of votes, Trump will have a considerable lead over Biden, if not a victory in the entire state.
In the 2016 election, Trump bet Hillary Clinton by only 10,704 votes.
Over 20% of Michigan Votes May Be Thrown Out
The number of votes the lawsuit seeks to invalidate makes up over 20 percent of the record 5.5 million votes cast in the state last week.
Media projections on the election results show Trump is lagging behind Biden by 147,000 votes but the president might snatch a win by over 322,000 votes if the court sides with the plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs claimed there was "sufficient evidence" to doubt the results of the November 3 presidential election in the three counties.
They said there were "issues with transparency...and many other issues and irregularities" during the state's election and vote counting.
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Furthermore, the lawsuit also said certifying the votes in all three counties will violate voters' First and Fourteenth Amendment Rights by "vote-dilution disenfranchisement."
Defendants to this case include Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan State Board of Canvassers, Wayne County Board of Canvassers, Washtenaw County Board of Canvassers, and Ingham County Board of Canvassers.
Invalidating Votes in Michigan 'Unprecedented'
Aghogho Edevbie, director of national voting-rights advocacy group All Voting is Local told Bridge Michigan that invalidating the votes from all three counties would be unprecedented.
He noted that he's never heard of throwing out ballots as a remedy to an alleged case of fraud.
"The reason is it would disenfranchise so many people. That's why it's never been done," he said.
As it would appear, the lawsuits alleging fraud were losing their footing in court.
On Friday, for example, Wayne County Circuit Chief Judge Timothy Kenny declined a request for an independent audit of votes from Wayne County, reported Detroit Free Press.
On the same day, Trump's campaign also dropped its legal challenge in the state of Arizona. The campaign's voter fraud hotline was also shut down that day.
There are four more lawsuits pending in Michigan.
One more lawsuit claimed Republican challengers were being removed from Detroit's TCF Center as absentee ballots were being processed. It also claims some irregularities during counting.
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