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WASHINGTON (AP) Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trumps scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Bidens victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chaos and perpetuate unsubstantiated doubts about the count.
The battle is centered in the battleground states that sealed Bidens win.
In Michigan, two Republican election officials in the states largest county initially refused to certify results despite no evidence of fraud, then backtracked and voted to certify and then on Wednesday flipped again and said they remain opposed to certification. Some Republicans have called on the GOP statewide canvassers to so the same. In Arizona, officials are balking at signing off on vote tallies in a rural county.
The moves dont reflect a coordinated effort across the battleground states that broke for Biden, local election officials said. Instead, they seem to be inspired by Trumps incendiary rhetoric about baseless fraud and driven by Republican acquiescence to broadsides against the nations electoral system as state and federal courts push aside legal challenges filed by Trump and his allies.
Still, what happened in Wayne County, Michigan, on Tuesday and Wednesday was a jarring reminder of the disruptions that can still be caused as the nation works through the process of affirming the outcome of the Nov. 3 election.
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Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)court battle that is severely restricted by time. And nothing will change BECAUSE Trumpy-Boy pressured (election interference, anyone?) the canvassers into rescinding their previous approval of the votes. Trump poisoned his own drinking water.