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This is a doozy.
This is a doozy.
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37. Absentee and mail-in voting are the<br />
primary opportunities for unlawful ballots to be cast.<br />
As a result of expanded absentee and mail-in voting<br />
in Defendant States, combined with Defendant States’<br />
unconstitutional modification of statutory protections<br />
designed to ensure ballot integrity, Defendant States<br />
created a massive opportunity for fraud. In addition,<br />
the Defendant States have made it difficult or<br />
impossible to separate the constitutionally tainted<br />
mail-in ballots from all mail-in ballots.<br />
38. Rather than augment safeguards<br />
against illegal voting in anticipation of the millions of<br />
additional mail-in ballots flooding their States,<br />
Defendant States all materially weakened, or did<br />
away with, security measures, such as witness or<br />
signature verification procedures, required by their<br />
respective legislatures. Their legislatures established<br />
those commonsense safeguards to prevent—or at least<br />
reduce—fraudulent mail-in ballots.<br />
39. Significantly, in Defendant States,<br />
Democrat voters voted by mail at two to three times<br />
the rate of Republicans. Former Vice President Biden<br />
thus greatly benefited from this unconstitutional<br />
usurpation of legislative authority, and the<br />
weakening of legislative mandated ballot security<br />
measures.<br />
40. The outcome of the Electoral College vote<br />
is directly affected by the constitutional violations<br />
committed by Defendant States. Plaintiff State<br />
complied with the Constitution in the process of<br />
appointing presidential electors for President Trump.<br />
Defendant States violated the Constitution in the<br />
process of appointing presidential electors by<br />
unlawfully abrogating state election laws designed to