Michigan Judge Makes Ruling On Trump’s Lawsuit Over Handling Of Absentee Ballots

Trump is going to throw a fit.


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Donald Trump has been desperately trying to cling to power as more ballots are being counted and appear to be going in Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s favor. And frankly, it’s just a lot of noise coming from team  Trump with no regard for the election’s integrity. Instead, Trump is trying to sow doubt and discord into the process. Like, claiming voter fraud without evidence to back that up, for example. Twitter has been labeling Trump’s tweets as “misleading,” as he screams into the void.

According to the Associated Press, a Michigan judge has some more bad news for the president as she has dismissed a lawsuit by his campaign in a dispute over whether Republican challengers had access to the handling of absentee ballots.

Judge Cynthia Stephens noted that the lawsuit was filed late Wednesday afternoon, just hours before the last ballots were counted. She also said the defendant, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, was the wrong person to sue because she doesn’t control the logistics of local ballot counting, even if she is the state’s chief election officer.

Ooof! So, the Trump campaign was literally suing the wrong person. That seems on-brand for this president, though.

The Trump campaign’s ridiculous lawsuit claimed that Benson, a Democrat, was allowing absentee ballots to be counted without teams of bipartisan observers as well as challengers, according to the AP. The lawsuit further accused of undermining the “constitutional right of all Michigan voters … to participate in fair and lawful elections.”

However, according to the Star Tribune, at one Michigan location in question, the Associated Press observed poll watchers from both sides of the aisle monitoring on Wednesday. So, the lawsuit seems more like a stall-tactic.

Trump’s campaign said Wednesday that it had filed suits to halt the counting of ballots in Michigan and Pennsylvania. The campaign demanded increased access to observe the tallying process at numerous locations in the battleground states they are suing.

Former vice president Joe Biden was projected as the winner in Michigan and needs only 17 more Electoral College votes to secure the White House. At the moment, Biden has 253 electoral votes. Trump has 214.

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