'Trump Lost All His Election Cases!'

Debunking Popular US Election Myths

As the election year shenanigans heat up, old lies are making the rounds again. We’re going to spend some time in the coming weeks debunking the most egregious regime assertions, and first up: 

“All the 2020 election cases proved there was no fraud!”

There are variations of this, of course.

“Trump lost all his legal cases!” is a popular refrain from people who have no idea what they’re talking about. 

One attorney and independent journalist that does know what she’s talking about is Rachel Alexander, and she recently published an index of 2020 election cases, leveraging the extensive report put together by ElectionIntegrity.Info and case summaries from the Healthy Elections Project at Stanford-MIT.

Alexander’s research is an invaluable resource, so please give her a follow.

(Be sure to tune into Why We Vote on Friday as Rachel Alexander joins Brian and I to discuss this and her other work.)

As we go through the actual legal outcomes of 2020 challenges, consider the truth against the narrative — and realize the magnitude of the deception. 

There are 92 election lawsuits specifically dealing with the 2020 election. Of these, 30 were decided on the merits, and 62 were disposed of due to procedural or other defects. Of the 30 cases decided on the merits, Trump and others on the side of election integrity prevailed in 22. 

That’s a 73% win rate when the evidence is heard. Let’s jump in. 

Cases Decided for the Regime

We are not going to look at all 92 cases, but rather a few cases in each category of outcome. You can review all the cases and pleadings in the links above. 

In the run up to 2020, the Trump campaign and other parties filed challenges to the election procedures in many states. Several of these challenges were unsuccessful.

In October 2020, the campaign challenged a ban on poll observers at early voting locations, and asked the court to allow the campaign to have observers where votes are being counted. The court found that the Philly Board of Elections’ "satellite offices" do not count as polling places under the Election Code – even if votes are being counted there – and denied the petition. 

The day after the election, the Georgia Republican Party and Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., petitioned the Court to order the Chatham County Board of Elections to sequester all absentee ballots received after 7:00 P.M. on election day and to provide an accounting of all such ballots to Petitioners. The petition was denied on statutory basis, as “The court held that the ballots in question were valid and there was no evidence that the Chatham County Board of Elections had violated any law.”

On November 5, 2020, the Trump campaign challenged the counting of nearly 600 ballots in Montgomery County, PA as ineligible for lack of an address. The case was denied on statutory basis: “The Election Code does not require a voter to provide their address on the declaration envelope.” 

A similar case went to the PA Supreme Court where the campaign challenged almost 2,200 ballots. “The court held that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has made it clear that voters should not be disenfranchised based on advisory portions of the Election Code … not mandated by statute.”

Think about that for a second.

Mail-in ballots were sold to the people as a secure voting method due to signature verification and other statutory controls in the process. In Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court found that those controls are effectively meaningless. This alone is enough to dispose of mail-in voting forever, but there are also the findings in Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, and many other states that affirm the insanity. 

There were also a few cases decided for the regime by other plaintiffs.

For example, in Harris County, Texas, the court found that the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring a claim of harm from 127,000 illegal ballots. That was before the Texas authorities prohibited Attorney General Ken Paxton from prosecuting election cases. See how that works? 

It’s important to realize that these decisions were in 2020, and we know so much more now about the absolute state of our elections.

We know how US voter rolls are inflated, how those rolls are used to make it rain ballots during the election period, and how every single control that the regime promised would prevent voter disenfranchisement – doesn’t.

Regardless, it is this handful of cases is the basis for the “Trump lost all his lawsuits!” claim.

Let’s look at the other cases decided on the merits. 

Cases Decided for Free & Fair Elections

Changing Election Laws

Back in May 2020, Pro business plaintiffs challenged Governor Jared Polis’ exceptions for petition requirements, forcing the governor to comply when the state’s high court found that, “the Governor is not authorized to create an exception to that requirement.” 

In August of 2020, the RNC and the Trump Campaign challenged the Iowa Secretary of State sending unrequested, pre-populated absentee ballot request forms to every voter.

The plaintiffs were granted an injunction, and Iowa counties were told to send blank ballots: “the United States Supreme Court has held that ‘lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election.’”

The RNC prevailed on two other similar challenges in the Hawkeye State.

In October 2020, the Trump Campaign challenged the Minnesota Secretary of State’s decision to extend the deadline to receive ballots late ballots. They were granted an injunction, and ordered to sequester late ballots:

“...the extension of the deadline likely violates Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution because the Secretary extended the deadline for receipt of ballots without legislative authorization.” 

Trump also won on extending polling hours in Nevada and on the unlawful relaxing of election rules in Pennsylvania. 

Election Misinformation 

Petitioners Mark Jefferson and the Republican Party of Wisconsin secured a temporary restraining order against a clerk that was encouraging people to designate themselves as "indefinitely confined" to avoid proof of ID when requesting an absentee ballot. The clerk was ordered to remove and stop posting “legally incorrect” information. 

Voter Roll Clean-up

One of my favorite wins is where Judicial Watch challenged Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s voter roll hygiene, and the secretary entered a consent decree. Due to the terms of the settlement, Judicial Watch can’t say Jena admitted fault, but it’s hard to imagine any other circumstance where the secretary would agree to provide a conservative legal group with annual data updates for five years. 

Similar voter roll cleanup agreements were secured against Secretary Jocelyn Benson in Michigan and Secretary Kathy Bookvar in Pennsylvania as well. 

Why not use the litigation as an opportunity to show that the Colorado, Michigan and Pennsylvania voter rolls are pristine, as claimed? We know why.

The Pennsylvania Republican Party won a decision on sequestration of absentee ballots received after 8pm, enshrined now as Supreme Court precedent, and America First Plaintiffs prevailed in similar challenges in Minnesota and Virginia.

Signature Verification

In Nevada, the state Republican Central Committee requested the court order Clark County to produce every voters’ signature for the general election as well as “images of their signatures on file; the names, parties and shifts of members of the counting board; detailed documents regarding policies, training materials and names of employees regarding every aspect of poll watching, ballot processing, and security.”

The request was mostly granted, limited to what was available when the request was made, and the info was turned over.

In Michigan, Plaintiffs challenged signature verification standards and requested to perform an audit, and the request was granted by the court, which stated, “Signature-matching standards were issued in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act.”

Electronic Voting Equipment

In Michigan, Plaintiffs were awarded the ability to conduct a partial audit after challenging Antrim County that the machines flipped votes. In fact, we know that votes were flipped. (See the findings of the Allied Special Operations Group’s report on Antrim County’s 2020 election.) Whenever they get caught in this way, they claim “glitch!” (See Dekalb, GA and Williamson, TN.)

VoterGA suspected improper counting in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and requested to inspect the electronic ballot images. The request was granted by the court.

Finally, in one of the biggest election disclosures to date – the 2021 Maricopa County Audit ordered by the Arizona Senate – Maricopa County sued Arizona Senators over their legislative subpoenas for 2020 election documents, logfiles, and other materials. The court affirmed that the Senate’s requests were legal, and the county was ordered to comply.

Notably, Maricopa county did not comply with many of the subpoenas, and it doesn’t appear they ever faced any consequences.

Rules for thee…

What about all the other cases?

We haven’t even covered all of the 30 2020 election cases decided on the merits, but it is now abundantly clear that the “Trump lost all his cases!” line is a fabrication. It’s narrative.

As for the other cases, they fall into a few different categories:

A handful of cases were dismissed for lack of standing, meaning the plaintiffs didn’t have the right to bring a claim. “Plaintiffs lack standing since they haven’t shown an injury, and if they had one, it is not redressable by the court. It’s merely a generalized grievance and no imminent injury or causation.”

Others were dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. “The lawsuit needs to be filed in a circuit court instead, which will do the fact finding.”

Others for timeliness: “Plaintiffs waited too long to seek an injunction since it was the eve of an election and ‘merely theorize’ that fraud might occur.” 

Others still were dismissed on Laches. “Challenge was brought too late, voters are already relying on the process … there is a risk that those who did so may not be able to timely resubmit their applications and receive their absentee ballots.” (internal quotations omitted)

And some were even dismissed because Covid apparently made rules not matter: “Considerations of public health weigh strongly against the issuance of an injunction, even if Plaintiffs’ claims were meritorious.” 

In other words, getting evidence in front of a court to make a decision on the merits of the case is a damn miracle.

If wins aren't reported, are they not wins?

In her index of election cases, Alexander quotes attorney Robert Barnes:

“Not Ripe in Spring, No Standing by Summer, Laches by Fall, and Moot by Winter.” 

~ Robert Barnes

Barnes effectively summarizes the courts’ positions on 2020 election challenges, but the reader should consider that Trump’s pre-election challenges are proven prescient by the current state of “our democracy.” 

For years, we’ve been told by all the mockingbirds that there is “no evidence of election fraud,” that “2020 was the safest and most secure election in history,” and that “Trump lost all his election cases.” 

In fact, 62 out of 92 cases were dismissed without the court hearing the merits of the case. In the 30 cases where the court’s decision was based on the merits, Trump and other America First plaintiffs prevailed in 22 cases – or 73% of the time. 

This is a story the regime has fought hard to suppress. The narrative as been ubiquitous, making the actuals somewhat shocking.

This is also a story that independent journalists like Rachel Alexander – and all of us here at Badlands – are fighting hard to tell.

Because it’s the truth.

Stay tuned as we debunk more election myths in the coming weeks here on Badlands Media.

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