A lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the presidential election in Michigan was dismissed in a federal court on Monday, with the judge saying that the lawsuit contained “conjecture and speculation.”
“To be perfectly clear, Plaintiffs’ equal protection claim is not supported by any allegation that Defendants’ alleged schemes caused votes for President Trump to be changed to votes for Vice President Biden,” District Court Judge Linda V. Parker, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, wrote in the ruling.
Parker claimed (pdf) that the lawsuit, which was backed by lawyer Sidney Powell, “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.”
Parker, who serves on the Detroit-based U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, added that the relief sought by the defendants is beyond the power of the court.
“Plaintiffs ask this Court to ignore the orderly statutory scheme established to challenge elections and to ignore the will of millions of voters,” Parker wrote. “This, the Court cannot, and will not, do. The People have spoken.”
Powell announced in late November she launched lawsuits in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia. The cases in Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin are ongoing.
In the Michigan suit, Powell alleged “massive election fraud” in the state and violations of Michigan’s Election Code and the Constitution.
“The scheme and artifice to defraud was for the purpose of illegally and fraudulently manipulating the vote count to manufacture an election of Joe Biden as president of the United States,” the lawsuit read. The fraud was committed in many ways but the most “troubling, insidious, and egregious ploy” involved the “systemic adaptation of old-fashioned ‘ballot-stuffing,’” it said.
Particularly, in Detroit and Wayne County, “an especially egregious range of conduct” occurred, Powell’s suit alleged.
Last week, President Donald Trump’s legal team presented witnesses at a Michigan Legislature hearing, with some saying they were intimidated and threatened. Others said they witnessed allegedly fraudulent and anomalous activity in Detroit’s TCF Center.
“They treated me like a criminal, humiliated me, harassed me,” Detroit poll worker Jessy Jacob said in her witness statement. “It was so bad.”
And another woman—a GOP poll watcher—said she saw what appeared to be hundreds of “Xerox copies” of military ballots that all went for Democrat Joe Biden. They were seen at the TCF Center in Detroit.
“None of the voters [were] registered,” and election workers “had to manually enter the names and addresses and a birth date of 1/1/2020, which would override the system and allow them to enter nonregistered voters, of which I saw several … throughout the day,” the woman said.
Michigan’s Secretary of State’s office has said they have seen no evidence of voter fraud that would overturn the result of the election. Regarding the hearings last week, a spokesman for Michigan’s Secretary of State told The Epoch Times that GOP poll watchers and others who testified in front of the Michigan Legislature this week displayed a “lack of knowledge” about the vote-counting process and promoted “conspiracy theories.”
Last month, several election officials in Wayne County—and one Michigan Board of Canvassers official—said they were threatened. One, Norm Shingle, said anonymous callers threatened his “wife and children.”