Texas AG sues swing states for changing election rules at last minute, same thing Alaska courts did in October

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Texas has sued Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin over “unconstitutional irregularities” in the election process.

In a case filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says that the four states used the coronavirus pandemic to ignore state laws that govern absentee and mail-in voting.

At issue is that judges in the four states did away with security measures, among them signature verification and absentee ballot witness requirements. They also reduced election security by eliminating poll watchers.

The four states are the battlegrounds that President Trump won in 2016, but lost this year. Each modified their voting procedures in violation of their own state laws, the suit alleges.

Because those states are the key electoral votes that will determine the presidency, the lawsuit is throwing another wrench into the electoral vote calendar. The Electoral College is set to meet on Dec. 14 to cast their votes.

Alaska’s election procedures were also changed via a ruling by the Alaska Supreme Court. In October, after ballots had already started to be cast in the General Election, the high court ruled that the witness requirement for absentee ballots is unconstitutional during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The decision went in favor of the lawsuit brought by the ACLU-Alaska on behalf of the Native American Rights Fund, American Civil Liberties Union, and Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

The ACLU-Alaska said that the witness signature “serves no legitimate purpose,” an indication that the lawsuit group may try to make this a permanent injunction against the witness requirement for mail-in ballots.

The Alaska Supreme Court’s ruling was not challenged by the Texas Attorney General because there are only three electoral votes for Alaska, not enough to swing the election this year.

Georgia is worth 16 electoral votes, Pennsylvania has 20, and Michigan and Wisconsin have 16 and 10 — enough to tip the scale for Biden.

Also on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an emergency request from Rep. Mike Kelly, Republican of Pennsylvania, and other Republicans who sought to decertify the Pennsylvania election results, which member of Congress and other GOP activists to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.

51 COMMENTS

  1. We may be only 3 votes in the electoral college, but. ALASKA deserves to have PROP 2 overturned because it “won” on those mail in ballots that should never have been allowed.

  2. Never let a good crisis go to waste, and the Dems played it perfectly! Time to peel back the onions, see what we find!

  3. Why would the supreme court listen to a state (Alaska) that did the same thing that it’s complaining about? Namely changing the voting laws pertaining to voter id. Alaska should have been named in the Texas lawsuit

  4. If the SCOTUS overturns those results than a lawsuit can be filled in Alaska using case precedent to overule the Alaska Supreme Court decision as a violation of the law.

  5. I don’t see this going anywhere. Texas has no say in the election processes in the other states. Otherwise, Alaska,…wait, let’s say Massachusetts, could challenge the results of Texas elections.

    • I think they could sue another state. Individuals in our country can sue other countries. There has to be harm done and if those other states stole the outcome of an election then that definitely means their state has been harmed if they voted for a particular candidate. It may not go anywhere. Who knows?

    • Art. 1, § 4, cl. 1, of the United States Constitution: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but Congress may at any time make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Place of choosing Senators.”

      “BY THE LEGISLATURE THEREOF”. Not by the governor, and Not by the court, as was done in the states in question. Seven other states have joined this lawsuit. More may follow. Fraudulent ballots have been allowed to count as authentic and that has disenfranchised voters in every state.

    • Trumpism = dividing not only family members from each other , , making political gaps wider , though now i is DIVIDING STATES – From each other .
      The United States might not last another Republican presidency .

    • that’s because you don’t know about Anderson v. Celebreezze. The supreme court has ruled on a similar situation.

  6. This guy is a clown and under Federal indictment. Texas should feel free to secede. The rest of the country doesn’t need nor want them.

    • Federal indictment you say? You mean like Richard Jewell and Ted Stevens?
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      How about the other 8 States joining the suit. You got anything to say about them?

    • another political prosecution by some dem prosecutor. This has been going on for 5 years. He pleaded not guilty. If he was don’t you think they would have got him by now. Anyway, we still believe in “innocent until PROVEN guilty.” I guess you don’t, which makes you a clown.

  9. Alaska has a large interest in this because Biden will be a disaster for our economy and our rights. Everything Alaskans hold dear will be challenged by the Biden-Harris agenda. I hope Alaska submits some sort of brief that supports this.

  10. Could this be why Bolger is retiring early……and maybe more justices on the AK SCt? Their “no witness required for Absentee ballots” was reprehensible and led to election fraud in Alaska. Now, we have illigitimate House and Senate Democrats in the Legislature. Disgusting!!!

  11. Dec. 2017 … “Alaska officials on Friday approved a major expansion of the Point Thomson gas and condensate project east of Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope, … Preliminary planning is now underway on the Point Thomson project, which would expand production of liquid condensates to 50,000 b/d and gas production to 920 MMcf/d from the field, which now produces about 10,000 b/d of condensates and 200 MMcf/d of gas. … Point Thomson owners, mainly operator ExxonMobil and BP, will make a final decision to construct the project in 2019, … A 12-inch oil pipeline already connects Point Thomson with Prudhoe to carry condensates and has ample capacity to handle the increased liquids production.”
    Sounds humdrum doesn’t it? The gas is injected into wells to increase well pressure, which increases oil production. The condensates are injected into wells to do what? To be stored for future use?
    If enough condensates are collected it can be used to fill TAPS. Condensates are light elements of crude, and flow easily in very cold temperature. If a temporary TAPS shutdown is planned, the condensates will insure an easy restart.
    Biden’s anti-oil policies are an existential threat to the energy producers. Should they want to make a point, they can do a shutdown across the board and demonstrate that the green movement push for renewable energy is very premature, and just playing politics, with the Greenies factions merely jockeying for their own little fiefdoms.

  12. This lawsuit, like many other related ones in the past month, should be both heard and won on its merits, if there were any actual justice system in this country. But like most politicians — no, strike that, like most OTHER politicians — the judiciary in this country has been hopelessly corrupted and co-opted by nefarious special interests, both foreign (e.g. China) and domestic (e.g. corporations). So nothing will come of this legal challenge, and usurpers Biden and Harris will continue to march towards the inaugurations that neither deserve nor really won. After which, they and their ilk will likely so shamelessly and relentlessly further corrupt our electoral process and political landscape that no further meaningful challengers, reformers or outsiders will EVER again be able to rise to a position of meaningful authority or power.

  13. Thus far Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and South Dakota have evidently joined Texas in their suit.
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    Paging Governor Dunleavy. It’s time to stand tall and join the party…

    • Is there a common denominator here? Looks like oil state influence to me. Who knew.

      When conditions are such that the incoming apparent makes statements like ‘the US will have no oil dependence by 2035’ and it’s all we as Alaskans have to offer, maybe we should consider joining with others that say they’d prefer not to allow such a leader to hijack our future.

  14. Biden is just the front man and China is the puppeteer. Lisa, the RINO will just stand back and watch now that she can relax. She no longer has to do ANYTHING . This country is everything to lose because Biden is a GLOBLIST

  16. Well, he should include his home state in the suit. Texas loosened its rules just before the election, too. What lunacy.

    • Difference being that only State Legislatures have the plenary power to change voting laws.
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      Bwahaha, the left knows about lunacy.

  17. Alaska SCt. Justices aiding and abetting election fraud………?
    Who would think that? These bunch of dufuses and stooges had one of their own on the ballot. How many illigitimate votes were cast to retain that Justice? I will never believe another word from any of these crooked justices. Nor do I believe that the Democrats elected to the contested House seats in Alaska are legitimate Representatives.

  18. We should probably sue the Democrats and the federal government for blocking our state’s ability to responsibly develop its resources on its own state land. Mining timber on state land should be a go regardless of what is arbitrarily done by the feds or other states like California. Go Texas lets sue those states and maybe they should sue Alaska for not following the Constitution in regards to mail in ballots and other nefarious changes that are only there to fundamentally change the way we operate our republic.

  19. During this historic week with the fate of our nation in the balance, my kids are watching Amerika (surprisingly still up on youtube). It could be cut by half and still make its point, but now more than it should be watched.

  20. A quick look at ” what happened” on election night should scare the heebee jeebies out of every red blooded American. This thing stinks to high heaven and any objective review points out that it was a coordinated attack on your voting franchise. If the tables were turned and Trump had used such nefarious methods I would be just as angry, this goes beyond party affiliation . The concept of a fair election is the bedrock of our republic.
    Sadly, many Americans have now lost faith in our institutions. After enduring four years of leftist accusing Trump of being an illegitimate President, these same leftist have given birth to a true illegitimate and
    corrupt regime.

  21. Finally, a journalist and her outlet dare to report on the ever powerful Native cartel that thrives on white guilt and the largess of federal/state governments.

    • Indeed, Isla, the financial black hole, into which money is endlessly poured yet from which little to nothing ever flows out, that is Bush Alaska has always seemed to me to be the “third rail” of Alaskan politics which must NEVER be mentioned or even hinted at. And this idea that everyone in Bush Alaska automatically deserves every amenity that is available to those in more urban areas is utterly unsustainable, unsupportable and certifiably insane.
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      That is not a comment on race, just on finances and economics.

  22. The AK Judiciary rewrote election law on the fly twice in recent memory. First was in 2014 when Judge Suddock allowed the Walker – Mallott unity ticket on the ballot a week or so after the drop dead date for changes. The second was this year when the AK Supremes gutted the witness provision on absentee ballots. IN BOTH CASES the LtGov should have been in federal court fighting the change. Treadwell chose not to do so in 2014. Meyer has not yet chosen to do so yet. Perhaps he should.

    The other thing that happened this year was the reject rate for absentee ballots was down 90% in AK. Similar changes appeared to take place in the rest of the states. Likely part of the overall fraud / steal the election plan. Cheers –

  23. This is not just a technical mistake. Our Constitution is purposely cumbersome in order to maintain the distributed focus of power. What this lawsuit should point out is that these states that have not followed the Constitution have changed the focus to allow only a few or in some cases ONE person to make changes to the election rules. It must be done by the legislative body or we have tyranny. When the focus of power narrows it can’t just be ignored or the democratic portion of our republic is lost. It will destroy the integrity of voting in all states. We have to know that all votes are legitimate and minimize any opportunity for fraud that we possibly can. That is why the left hates the Constitution is because, when followed, it minimizes fraud. If the federal supreme court brushes this off, we are doomed as a free nation. Its not about trump losing. Its about US losing. The US Constitution is what empowers each one of us to make a difference. The cumbersomeness of it ensures our individual power. That power is what people have died for and we should be brave enough to maintain it. It is ironic that democrats don’t understand this simple basic principle of government that keeps us free. Republicans do it too and are not innocent bystanders. They both ignore the Constitution when they have opportunity because they are short sighted and throw “us under the bus” for their convenience. The balance of power is imperative.

  24. Incredibly dangerous precedent. Alaska of all states would be the loser if this stunt is successful. I don’t want New Jersey suing us for access/non-access to resources for example. State sovereignty is the bedrock of our republic.

    • I guess I missed whatever happened with Governor Dunleavy and references to legal charges, the FBI, etc., but one thing I do know is that for the past several months, every time I have seen him speak, he wears a perpetually and deeply-engraved worried expression on his face.

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