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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01mp48sh009| Title: | Lost, not stolen: The conservative case that Trump lost and Biden won the 2020 presidential election |
| Contributors: | Danforth, John Ginsberg, Benjamin Griffith, Thomas B. Hoppe, David Luttig, J. Michael McConnell, Michael W. Olson, Theodore B. Smith, Gordon H. |
| Keywords: | Presidents—United States—Election—2020 Trump, Donald, 1946-—Trials, litigation, etc. United States—Politics and government—2017-2021 Presidents—United States—Transition periods Election law—United States Contested elections—United States |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2022 |
| Publisher: | The authors |
| Description: | As part of his post-election attempts to retain the presidency, Donald Trump and his supporters filed 64 cases containing 187 counts in the six key battleground states, in addition to utilizing some of the recount and contest procedures available to them under state law. The former president maintains to this day that the 2020 election was stolen and the results fraudulent. This Report takes a hard look at the very serious charges made by Trump and his supporters. The consequences of a president and a major party candidate making such charges are monumental. If true, our electoral system is in desperate need of repair. If not true, that must be said because such false charges corrode our democracy and leave a significant share of the population doubting the legitimacy of our system, seriously weakening the country. Every member of this informal group has worked in Republican politics, been appointed to office by Republicans, or is otherwise associated with the Party. None have shifted loyalties to the Democratic Party, and none bear any ill will toward Trump and especially not toward his sincere supporters. Many of us have worked over the years in polling places as part of Republican Election Day Operations looking for the same sort of fraud and irregularities Donald Trump claimed in 2020. Such vigilance is entirely appropriate and must not be stigmatized as “voter suppression.” Fraud, irregularities, and procedural deficiencies formed the basis for challenging the results in five of the six highly contested Electoral College battleground states of Arizona (page 7), Georgia (page 27), Michigan (page 36), Nevada (page 47), and Wisconsin (page 64). In Pennsylvania (page 53), Trump verbally attacked the elections as fraudulent, but his lawyers never filed such charges in court. For this Report, we examined every count of every case brought in these six battleground states. We include both a narrative for each state and an accompanying Addendum listing each case and its disposition. We conclude that Donald Trump and his supporters had their day in court and failed to produce substantive evidence to make their case. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01mp48sh009 |
| Related resource: | https://lostnotstolen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Lost-Not-Stolen-The-Conservative-Case-that-Trump-Lost-and-Biden-Won-the-2020-Presidential-Election-July-2022.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email |
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