American Military News by Ryan Morgan November 08, 2020
On Saturday, President Donald Trump’s campaign team and the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit in Arizona, which alleges Maricopa County poll workers incorrectly overrode an errors on their electronic vote tabulating machines, causing votes to be disregarded.
The lawsuit comes after several media outlets called the race in Arizona for Joe Biden. Biden led Trump on election night, but continued ballot counting has shown Trump closing the vote gap in the state and he is currently about 18,500 votes behind Biden, according to Fox News’ election map.
The lawsuit specifically states that in cases where electronic voting tabulating machines detected an “overvote†— an instance in which the voter selects more than the permitted number of candidates in a given race — poll workers erroneously pressed or told voters to press a selection on the tabulating machines to override the error. Though the selection to override the error allows the ballot to be submitted, the lawsuit alleges, “Ballots cast in this manner do not receive any additional review or assessment at the counting center.â€
“If a field on the ballot contains what the tabulator deems an apparent defect or irregularity, the voter’s intended selections in the affected candidate races or ballot proposition contests will not be tabulated, even if the voter’s intent could be discerned by a visual review of the ballot,†the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit states the “overwhelming majority of voting centers†in Maricopa County used a process in which voters would fill out their ballots by hand before depositing them in electronic tabulating machines, which may detect when an overvote has occurred.
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