Michigan, national GOP seek to delay certification of election results
Source: The Detroit News
The state and national Republican parties have asked the Board of State Canvassers to delay certification of the state's election results in a bid to investigate "anomalies and irregularities" alleged to have occurred in Michigan's Nov. 3 election.
Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Laura Cox and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel asked the state to conduct a "full, transparent audit" before certification, noting other states like Georgia "have taken discretionary steps" in determining their results.
The Board of State Canvassers is scheduled to meet Monday to consider certification.
The request comes a day after Republican U.S. Senate candidate John James requested the same delay. James, a Farmington Hills business trails U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, by more than 92,000 votes in unofficial results after the 83 counties turned in their certified results, a gain for Peters of 9,000 votes from the preliminary results.
Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/11/21/state-national-gop-seek-delay-certification-election-results/6373717002/
An interesting fact regarding audits:
So these people are calling for state law to be ignored and in only one County! Good luck with that.
Link to tweet
catbyte
(34,376 posts)according to Michigan law.
George II
(67,782 posts)Cha
(297,190 posts)cheezmaka
(737 posts)That's why I voted for her....
Cha
(297,190 posts)right in the thick of History!
Yes!!!
underpants
(182,788 posts)Its simply not good for them and they know it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)underpants
(182,788 posts)But down ballot, locally especially, they can still be scared and coerced.
Polybius
(15,398 posts)They will make sure of that.
NCDem47
(2,248 posts)Using every opportunity to adapt to minimize future resistance.
efhmc
(14,725 posts)In Texas over 65 and disabled can vote that way.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I believe they are here to stay. Folks like to do things the easy way and it is easy to vote by mail.
underpants
(182,788 posts)Especially in the burbs people like the convenience.
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)orangecrush
(19,546 posts)dalton99a
(81,472 posts)bluestarone
(16,926 posts)That's what i'm thinking here.
NCDem47
(2,248 posts)They need a lower court case (to rule against them???) so they can appeal to SC?
mindem
(1,580 posts)drumph has always been a little too out in the open about having the supreme court deciding the election. The whole repuke push to stack the courts is all about forcing their agenda even if they are in the minority.
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)says it would be highly doubtful they would even take the case
No laws have been broken, theres no fraud, they have no proof...
Conservative or not, they arent wanting to be made fools of!
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,296 posts)The GOP is demanding a remedy not provided for in state law without providing anything more that speculation and innuendo to back up that demand. I cant see how this rises to a federal case. But this is 2020.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Enough.
bluestarone
(16,926 posts)I have faith that it's all for their base. Joe's GOT THIS!! ( I really believe this)
Afromania
(2,768 posts)DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)Even if Trump were to change the Michigan lawmakers minds on Friday, the Legislature cant amend state law by fiat. A constitutional amendment has to be itself ratified by popular vote, and if its introduced in the Legislature, it first has to pass both houses by supermajority margins. The GOP possesses only a bare legislative majority in either house. Amendments to the election code, meanwhile, are subject to veto by the governor. In Michigan, thats Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, a committed Trump antagonist who would inevitably veto any legislative attempt at the wholesale disenfranchisement of her constituents. Without supermajorities, Republican legislators alone are impotent to override her veto. From Raw Story
Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)To lock in the hatred and fear for another election cycle.
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)The GOP voters only need to hear that it is so from those who feed them the lies as Gospel. They have no capacity to accept facts that don't agree with their Dogma. That is how a cult works.
The point of the exercise is not to establish Trump as the actual winner by the process. It is to establish in the minds of the GOP voters that they were robbed and that the new president and government are lies designed to cheat them of whatever they imagine to be their right and due. They've been programmed for decades to see this as the only outcome if Democrats win. They don't see how their local or state resources are provided by that government. They completely misunderstand how Social Security, National Parks, or other federal programs work and have no idea how such institutions came to exist.
On that foundation the GOP leadership can expect to drive their voters to support any cause or policy, or resist the same. It will be an un-civil war for the next 2 and 4 year election cycle and probably beyond. That is why the GOP at any level has refused to accept the election results. That is why this Kabuki Theater continues.
When the entire GOP senate refused to accept testimony or evidence during the Impeachment it said it all. The House GOP did the same and I don't want to hear they are afraid of their voters. It isn't true to the degree we have been told. What they all see is a path to dominate government. The incredible greed behind this is stunning when you see it face to face, as I see it repeated among our county commissioners every week. The public are inconvenient to their version of progress and so are treated as small children who shouldn't question adults.
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Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)When he is gone they can call his suffering retribution from those nasty Dems. Anything to amp up the sense of victim-hood and the melodrama which empowers those sad damaged white "Christians."
KatyBR
(183 posts)Same details here.
Election law experts and civil rights advocates called on the Michigan Board of Canvassers to certify election results during an online press conference Friday, saying the canvassers' role is largely a technical one.
"Their duties are ministerial and they must act," John Pirich, an election law attorney who teaches at the Michigan State University College of Law, said during the press conference hosted by the Michigan ACLU. "It's so clear under the law what they have to do."...
Also on Friday, the staff of the Michigan Board of Canvassers released a report recommending that the 4-member board certify the election results, saying that the allegations of voting irregularities affecting results was not accurate.
Rebutting Trump's allegations of fraud in Detroit, the report said the city of Detroit had fewer problems with out-of-balance precincts this November election than in the August primary and the 2016 November general election. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan made similar points earlier this week, saying the vote tally was 99.9% accurate.
[https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/11/20/certify-election-results-michigan-board-of-canvassers/6355742002/|
lucca18
(1,241 posts)Enough is enough with the republicans.
They are just like trump!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)To the rest of us they look like fucking morons.
They better show proof of a lot of irregularities if they're going to override a 150,000 vote difference.
William769
(55,146 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,585 posts)They aren't going to flip any states to Trump. The inauguration is January 20th, no matter what they do. Voters will not allow a coup -- the threat of massive protest against the people who certify the vote should deter any thoughts of ignoring the will of the people. What is all this crap about, other than sucking more money from Trump's supporters?
muntrv
(14,505 posts)arguement.
George II
(67,782 posts)birdographer
(1,325 posts)knew there were nazis in the 40's. They knew what they were doing. And the whole world similarly knows there are republicans now, and they know what they are doing. Both will be remembered as evil and twisted.
jalan48
(13,863 posts)sandensea
(21,627 posts)Where have I heard that before?...
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)You lost, get over it.
TryLogic
(1,723 posts)Treason - The crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)"anomalies and irregularities" mean the same thing
What is the synonym of anomaly?
SYNONYMS. oddity, peculiarity, abnormality, irregularity, inconsistency, incongruity, deviation, aberration, quirk, freak, exception, departure, divergence, variation. outlier, edge case. rarity, eccentricity.