{"id":48611,"date":"2022-12-28T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48611"},"modified":"2022-12-28T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T21:23:14","slug":"what-can-we-do-about-dishonest-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48611","title":{"rendered":"What Can We Do About Dishonest Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/rachelalexander\/2022\/12\/26\/the-dismissal-of-kari-lakes-election-lawsuit-shows-voter-disenfranchisement-no-longer-matters-n2617566?utm_source=thdailypm&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl&amp;recip=19183723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Townhall<\/a> posted an article with the following headline, &#8220;The Dismissal of Kari Lake\u2019s Election Lawsuit Shows Voter Disenfranchisement No Longer Matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The trial court judge in Kari Lake\u2019s election lawsuit <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/rachelalexander\/2022\/11\/14\/if-there-was-voter-fraud-such-claims-wont-get-anywhere-in-the-courts-n2615903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/rachelalexander\/2022\/11\/14\/if-there-was-voter-fraud-such-claims-wont-get-anywhere-in-the-courts-n2615903&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672096981293000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2tXo_XJZqM-5o3qjbLtqz6\">predictably<\/a> threw out her case on Saturday, putting on a sham trial that on the surface looked fair to the general public that doesn&#8217;t know any better, but to legal minds was a travesty of justice. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson only gave her two days for a trial and issued his ruling immediately afterwards, even though he could have taken several days, and it was one of the biggest, most important cases in the country. Legal experts believe his decision was ghostwritten, they suspect top left-wing attorneys like Marc Elias emailed him what to say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The standard should have been whether voters were disenfranchised, not all the additional hoops Thompson added. If inner city blacks had been disenfranchised, Thompson would not have added all those extra requirements, he would have made the law fit. Robert Gouveia, a rare attorney who isn\u2019t afraid to speak up and who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robgouveiaesq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/robgouveiaesq&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672096981293000&amp;usg=AOvVaw08juK6gTkHxorftxRucspv\">describes<\/a> himself as watching prosecutors, judges and politicians, <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasuntimes.com\/2022\/12\/24\/legal-experts-weigh-in-on-the-merits-of-kari-lakes-election-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/arizonasuntimes.com\/2022\/12\/24\/legal-experts-weigh-in-on-the-merits-of-kari-lakes-election-lawsuit\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672096981293000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0FEt-MjULrH-1tjIlaljBq\">said<\/a> the standard should have been whether there was voter suppression. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u00a0Instead, Thompson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/4531\/638074764564181393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/4531\/638074764564181393&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672096981293000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0OsbNvPnVazfGfR0wKmn7b\">said<\/a>\u00a0Lake had to show an extremely vague, high bar in order to prevail, that an election official intentionally caused the printer changes in order to change the results of the election, and that it did affect the outcome. He explained away many of the disturbing election anomalies as accidents or mere coincidences. He ignored the vast majority of them; in a show of arrogance, his opinion was less than eight pages long.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u00a0Thompson completely ignored all the voters who saw the long lines and gave up trying to vote, as if they didn\u2019t count. Considering probably\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rnc-roving-attorneys-quietly-monitoring-maricopa-voting-centers-one-finally-released-damning-finds-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rnc-roving-attorneys-quietly-monitoring-maricopa-voting-centers-one-finally-released-damning-finds-report\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672096981293000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0uWALFQUkwg6KoT69vA4jV\">well over half<\/a>\u00a0of the voting locations in Maricopa County were affected, not to mention they were almost all in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasuntimes.com\/2022\/11\/21\/maricopa-county-voting-centers-plagued-with-tabulation-errors-on-election-day-affected-areas-averaging-well-over-300-percent-more-republicans-than-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/arizonasuntimes.com\/2022\/11\/21\/maricopa-county-voting-centers-plagued-with-tabulation-errors-on-election-day-affected-areas-averaging-well-over-300-percent-more-republicans-than-democrats\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672096981293000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0nq-JZvPtLIgRLbsXUp0_N\">heavily Republican<\/a>\u00a0areas, this was no small disenfranchisement. Many voters have come forward and told how they were unable to vote for this reason or similar, such as a man who couldn\u2019t find parking in time due to the overcrowded parking lot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Compounding the problem, hardly any attorneys dare speak up about this, since they risk being targeted and disbarred. So they\u2019re not writing about it or going on talk shows, and the best of the bunch have already been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/rachelalexander\/2022\/12\/05\/the-left-is-using-lawfare-including-threats-of-prosecution-to-ignore-massive-voter-disenfranchisement-n2616721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/rachelalexander\/2022\/12\/05\/the-left-is-using-lawfare-including-threats-of-prosecution-to-ignore-massive-voter-disenfranchisement-n2616721&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672096981293000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1SpgVXZ3b-oVB8ceRkMl0i\">targeted<\/a>\u00a0so they\u2019ve either already been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220124082023\/http:\/libertyanvil.com\/at.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220124082023\/http:\/libertyanvil.com\/at.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672096981293000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2urkuH7steuFMRGvm7qFG_\">disbarred<\/a>\u00a0or have to lie low. Nor are they taking on representation, leaving candidates like Lake to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/lake-says-she-ll-take-anybody-as-lawyers-drop-out-of-beleaguered-election-suit\/ar-AA15vcaA?cvid=f3559be8064d4bc9876a076d00587771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/lake-says-she-ll-take-anybody-as-lawyers-drop-out-of-beleaguered-election-suit\/ar-AA15vcaA?cvid%3Df3559be8064d4bc9876a076d00587771&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672096981293000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3fYVQUl_bHYKoBXUyXMfHo\">rely<\/a>\u00a0upon non-election attorneys. When the Cochise County Supervisors gutsily called for a hand count, they could find no attorney who dared represent them.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A friend described the situation, \u201cWe don&#8217;t have a justice system and voting is becoming pointless. Only Democrat votes matter in our country now.\u201d Voter fraud experts believe the Democrats started targeting states years ago, like Washington and California, then moved on to Colorado. Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania are their latest targets. They intend to move on to states like Florida next if not stopped. Voter disenfranchisement has become the most important issue facing Republicans today, and if not stopped, we will become a one-party nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not a good place to be. Hopefully the case can be appealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Townhall posted an article with the following headline, &#8220;The Dismissal of Kari Lake\u2019s Election Lawsuit Shows Voter Disenfranchisement No Longer Matters.&#8221; The article reports: The trial court judge in Kari Lake\u2019s election lawsuit predictably threw out her case &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48611\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16108,2500,15926,11619],"class_list":["post-48611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arizona-election","tag-arizona-maricopa-county","tag-kari-lake","tag-townhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48612,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611\/revisions\/48612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}