Eleventh Circuit Defeats Attempt by a Georgia Voter to Overturn Certification of the Election Returns

Posted on by December 5, 2020
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On Saturday, December 5, the Eleventh Circuit agreed with a U.S. District Court that a lawsuit filed to overturn the Georgia election returns should be dismissed. Wood v Raffensperger, 20-14418. Here is the 20-page opinion. The case was filed by Georgia attorney L. Lin Wood, in his capacity as a voter and also as a donor to the Trump campaign. He has received attention recently for asserting that the vote-counting machines in Georgia are deliberately programmed to injure Republicans, and he has advocated that Republicans boycott the January 2021 Georgia U.S. Senate run-offs. Thanks to Howard Bashman for the link.

Joe Biden’s Percentage of the Popular Vote is Now 51.4%; Only Four Democrats Have Polled That High Since Civil War

Posted on by December 5, 2020
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The presidential total, as calculated by the Associated Press, now shows that Joe Biden has 51.4%. Only four Democratic nominees for president have polled that high since the Civil War. The other three Democratic nominees who polled that high since the Civil War are Franklin D. Roosevelt all four times, Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and Barack Obama in 2008.

The national totals still aren’t final. Some votes remain to be counted in many states. Here is a link to the AP tally.

Six Republican Candidates for Presidential Elector from Georgia File Lawsuit to Invalidate Georgia Election Returns

Posted on by December 3, 2020
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On November 25, six Georgia Republican presidential elector candidates filed a federal lawsuit, arguing that the Georgia election returns should be set aside. They assert that the Dominion vote-counting equipment fraudulently increased Joe Biden’s vote count by 96,000 votes. Pearson v Kemp, n.d., 1:20cv-4809.

Georgia has sixteen electoral votes, which means that ten of the Republican presidential elector candidates did not join this lawsuit.