Ross: Throwing out election results does not protect the right to vote
Nov 23, 2020, 6:06 AM | Updated: 8:28 am
A judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit, which argued – in part – that the election results in Pennsylvania should be tossed out because voters were treated differently based on the county where they voted.
As Rudy Giuliani argued in court last week:
“In one part of the state, you make a mistake, it gets fixed. In another part of the state, you make a mistake, you don’t get to vote.”
Giuliani was referring to a voter whose ballot was disqualified because he failed to put it in the required security sleeve.
In other counties, voters who made a mistake like that were contacted and allowed to fix the problem.
Prompting the judge to suggest:
“Why didn’t you just sue the counties that actually caused the client’s injuries?”
And the OTHER side agreed, arguing that if a county wants to make it easier for people to vote, it has that right. And, of course, that service is offered regardless of who the voter chooses.
Well, the hearing didn’t go well for the Trump people, and the judge dismissed the case saying that if this is about protecting the sacred right to vote, why would the President be trying to throw out Pennsylvania’s election results, thereby erasing the votes of 6,829,753 people?
There’s a simple solution to this, right? Just ask the guy who he wanted to vote for, and add his vote to the total. The president could tweet that he had cut Biden’s margin of victory – by 1 vote – and we could move on with the transition.
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