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TEXAS' SCORCHING Supreme Court Filing re: GA --
"Georgia has 16 electoral votes, with a statewide vote tally currently estimated at 2,458,121 for President Trump and 2,472,098 for former Vice President Biden, a margin of approximately 12,670 votes. The number of votes affected
"Georgia has 16 electoral votes, with a statewide vote tally currently estimated at 2,458,121 for President Trump and 2,472,098 for former Vice President Biden, a margin of approximately 12,670 votes. The number of votes affected
2/ by the various constitutional violations exceeds the margin of votes dividing the candidates.
-- GA's Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, w/ out legislative approval, unilaterally abrogated GA’s statute governing the signature verification process for absentee ballots.
-- GA's Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, w/ out legislative approval, unilaterally abrogated GA’s statute governing the signature verification process for absentee ballots.
3/ [GA Election Code] prohibits the opening of absentee ballots until after the polls open on Election Day: In April 2020, however, the State Election Board adopted Secretary of State Rule [Code], Processing Ballots Prior to Election Day. That rule purports to authorize county
4/ election officials to begin processing absentee ballots up to three weeks before Election Day.
-- On March 6, 2020, in Democratic Party of Georgia v. Raffensperger, [Case no.], GA’s Secretary of State entered a Compromise Settlement Agreement and Release w/ the Democratic
-- On March 6, 2020, in Democratic Party of Georgia v. Raffensperger, [Case no.], GA’s Secretary of State entered a Compromise Settlement Agreement and Release w/ the Democratic
5/ Party of Georgia (the “Settlement”) to materially change the statutory requirements for reviewing signatures on absentee ballot envelopes to confirm the voter’s identity by making it far more difficult to challenge defective signatures beyond the express mandatory procedures
6/ set forth at [GA Election Code] ... These cumbersome procedures are in direct conflict with GA’s statutory requirements, as is the Settlement’s requirement that notice be provided by telephone (i.e., not in writing) if a telephone number is available.
7/ -- Finally, the Settlement purports to require State election officials to consider issuing guidance and training materials drafted by an expert retained by the Democratic Party of Georgia. Georgia’s legislature has not ratified these material changes to statutory law
8/ mandated by the Compromise Settlement Agreement and Release, including altered signature verification requirements and early opening of ballots. The relevant legislation that was violated by Compromise Settlement
Agreement and Release did not include a severability
clause.
Agreement and Release did not include a severability
clause.
9/ This unconstitutional change in Georgia law materially benefitted former Vice President Biden. According to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, former Vice President Biden had almost double the number of absentee votes (65.32%) as President Trump (34.68%). The effect of
10/ this unconstitutional change in GA election law, which made it more likely that ballots without matching signatures would be counted, had a material impact on the outcome of the election. Specifically, there were 1,305,659 absentee mail-in ballots submitted in GA in 2020.
11/ There were 4,786 absentee ballots rejected in 2020. This is a rejection rate of .37%. In contrast, in 2016,
the 2016 rejection rate was 6.42% with 13,677 absentee mail-in ballots being rejected out of 213,033 submitted, which more than seventeen times greater than in 2020 ...
the 2016 rejection rate was 6.42% with 13,677 absentee mail-in ballots being rejected out of 213,033 submitted, which more than seventeen times greater than in 2020 ...
12/ Regardless of the number of ballots affected, however, the non-legislative changes to the election rules
violated the Electors Clause."
Just straightforward black-letter-law violations. These should be [imo] fairly easy to prove. Separation of powers: GA violated them.
violated the Electors Clause."
Just straightforward black-letter-law violations. These should be [imo] fairly easy to prove. Separation of powers: GA violated them.
