81 Election Lawsuits Filed: Few Decided on the Merits

Only 22 of 81 election cases were decided on the merits.

One of the worst (and patently false) arguments for denying election fraud occurred in the 2020 election is that Trump and his associates lost all but one of their court cases.

Columns like this one from USAToday allege that Trump and his associates lost 61 of 62 lawsuits.  

The source of USAToday's data was Marc Elias, who was involved in some of the cases as counsel for the defendant.  Elias is employed by the Perkins Coie legal firm that was involved in paying for the Steele Dossier that underpinned the Russia-Collusion hoax.   Obviously, USAToday relied on a biased source and is reporting a dishonest assessment of court proceedings.

The actual numbers are quite different according to a listing compiled by an election integrity group.

Trump and associates were actually involved in 81 legal cases (including appeals of same case) regarding the election and 25 of the cases are still active.   Thus there were 56 decisions, not 62.

Next, of those 56 decisions, only 22 were decided on the merits -- and Trump and associates prevailed in 15, or over half, of those cases.

Pennsylvania Vote Shifts After 76% of Votes Counted

Note:  Numbers may not be exact due to rounding

This is a partial data set showing vote switches in Pennsylvania after counting resumed on November 4, 2020.  As in many other states, the reporting of tabulated votes stopped around 3:13 AM EST  and resumed a few hours later at approximately 6:00 AM EST.

The source for this chart is election night reporting from the New York Times that is provided by Edison Research.   The Edison Research election results match Pennsylvania's official results in 66 of 67 counties.  

Note that in many instances, Trump's subtracted votes only make up a portion of the Leftover Votes.  In those instances, there are likely write-in votes and mismarked votes  (i.e. double marked ballots, blank ballots, etc) votes in that total.      

All of these Leftover votes go through the adjudication process to determine the intent of the voter.   However, in these instances it appears that bulk adjudication of batches of votes occurred in a systematic manner.

  

John Eastman Blisters Chapman Faculty in Resignation Letter

 

From the American Mind newsletter:

In recent days John Eastman has been the subject of many defamatory and scurrilous attacks regarding his actions as an advisor and attorney for President Donald Trump.

He sets the record straight in his resignation letter to Chapman University, Fowler School of Law.

Read more:

https://americanmind.org/salvo/john-eastmans-statement-on-his-retirement-from-chapman-university-fowler-school-of-law

DEBUNKED: The Dem's Reflex Reaction to Evidence of Voter Fraud

Just hours after the video of cases of ballots being pulled from under a table in State Farm Arena and then being counted without supervision -- and before anyone in an official capacity provided an explanation -- Georgia state Senator Elena Parent cried "that's been debunked." 

Another Senator calmly responded, "This video is only few hours old.   Who debunked it?

Parent exhibited the reflex reaction of most Democrats when she was confronted with the evidence of fraud.  When next confronted that the video hadn't been debunked, she moved to the next reflex reaction.

Parent stated that Trump had lost 40 of 41 court cases because the courts didn't accept the evidence of fraud.

At the time neither statement was true -- and both remain untrue today.   

Vote Dumps Should Be Investigated

Numerous so-called fact-check sites have attempted to dismiss large vote spikes as human error or software glitches that were later corrected.  For example, the fact checkers dismissed the Michigan vote spike on the basis that a tweet said all the votes were for Biden.

As the table shows, the Michigan vote spike was not all for Biden, but nonetheless, the data shows an anomalous margin of 113,755 votes.  To put it another way, the precinct in question went 96% for Biden and 4% for Trump -- and that's a result that deserves red-flagged.

An analysis conducted by a team of volunteers (computer scientists, engineers, statisticians, and analysts) concluded that only a few corrections were made and the results of the famously large vote spikes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin remain in the final vote tallies in those states.

While these spikes are not evidence of fraud or manipulation in and of themselves, they demand further investigation.

The full report is available here.