A Federal Judge in Michigan Says Sidney Powell’s Election Fraud Claims Are ‘Nothing but Speculation and Conjecture’

A federal judge in Michigan today rejected former Trump attorney Sidney Powell’s attempt to decertify that state’s presidential election results, finding that her claims failed in almost every possible way. “This lawsuit seems to be less about achieving the relief Plaintiffs seek—as much of that relief is beyond the power of this Court—and more about the impact of their allegations on People’s faith in the democratic process and their trust in our government,” U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker writes in her 36-page opinion. “Plaintiffs ask this Court to ignore the orderly statutory scheme established to challenge elections and to ignore the will of millions of voters. This, the Court cannot, and will not, do.”
Powell alleged “a massive election fraud” aimed at “illegally and fraudulently manipulating the vote count to manufacture an election of Joe Biden as President of the United States.” This scheme purportedly included “the unlawful counting, or manufacturing, of hundreds of thousands of illegal, ineligible, duplicate or purely fictitious ballots in the State of Michigan,” representing “a multiple of Biden’s purported lead in the State.”
The Michigan lawsuit was part of what Powell had described as a “Kraken” of overwhelming evidence that, once released, would lay waste to any remaining skepticism about the president’s claim that he actually won the election. Parker was not exactly awestruck at the sight of Powell’s hideous creature, which upon close examination she found to be composed of “nothing but speculation and conjecture.”
Powell claims that election machines in Michigan (and around the country) were rigged to give Biden a lead. But “the closest Plaintiffs get to alleging that election machines and software changed votes for President Trump to Vice President Biden in Wayne County,” Parker says, “is an amalgamation of theories, conjecture, and speculation th
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