Republicans and Donald Trump have mounted a last ditch effort to sell the idea that voting by mostly Democrats by mail or just about any means is fraudulent…
It is of course an effort to cut back the expected margin of Democratic voters over Republicans which has been going on for a few decades…
The Washington Post has looked at a lot of court reviews and found that judges aren’t really receptive to the fraud thing that Trump and others are pushing with a Joe Biden solid lead in the polling on the national and states level….
A review by The Washington Post of nearly 90 state and federal voting lawsuits found that judges have been broadly skeptical as Republicans use claims of voter fraud to argue against such changes, declining to endorse the GOP’s arguments or dismissing them as they examined limits on mail voting. In no case did a judge back President Trump’s view — refuted by experts — that fraud is a problem significant enough to sway a presidential election.
Some of the Democrats’ wins have been preliminary. And in many cases, judges issued split decisions, granting some of the changes sought by liberal plaintiffs and otherwise maintaining the status quo as favored by Republicans.
But The Post found that judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats alike have been dubious of GOP arguments that lowering barriers to mail voting could lead to widespread fraud.
“Do you have any evidence of any voter fraud actually existent in Montana in the last 10 to 20 years?” District Judge Dana L. Christensen, an appointee of President Barack Obama, pressed a GOP lawyer in a Missoula courtroom last week.
“No,” said the lawyer, James Bopp Jr., who is representing Republicans in a suit challenging the state’s decision to allow counties to run all-mail elections this fall. “No. But it is, with all due respect, I understand your question, but, no, it’s irrelevant.”….
All this talk about the Supreme Court deciding the election of course is predicated on a photo finish ala Bush- Gore twenty years ago.
Assuming nothing like that happens, the odds of the Supreme Court playing any role in the election is fairly remote.
Amen Jack…..
It’s just NOT gonna go THAT far after the AP/CNN/ABC/MSNBC even Fox call of the winner….