We did not lose the principles of free and fair elections. So were working every day to defend the right of every american to participate in an election that they can trust and find legitimate. Host and youre funded by individual donors, by larger groups . Guest were a 501c3 nonprofit and we dont talk about donors. They respect their privacy, as do groups on all sides of the political spectrum. Host as you look at the president ial race, where are we now and how many legal challenges across the country has the Trump Campaign put forth . Guest well, there are a number of legal challenges that have been filed by the Trump Campaign or related entities, particularly targeting a few key states based on the results and what i presume to be a calculation about how they can get to 270 in the he leble college. Those states would be pennsylvania, michigan, arizona, nevada and georgia. Those seem to be getting the most attention. Most of these lawsuits, at least so far, focus on process questions
Electoral votes for president of the united states. As of right now we have 108 counties that have certified the results. As we get closer to these certifications and the counties and reconciliations, the total 14,111. Now the difference is 14,072. The we doing a risk limiting audit, and as ive said since tuesday night and wednesday, this is all about process and following the law as written. This is something that maybe 12 people on the planet can explain in a way that everybody can understand it. This is one of those scientific things where you can use math to get to a confidence level that the outcome of the election is correct. In this particular case, the decision was made to do the president ial election. The press that many times has said this is caving to trump in the campaign. This could not be further from the truth. We knew there was a specific purpose for an audit and the law. It was to instill confidence in the outcome of this election. If we were going to do it easier ris
Organization youre involved with and what your efforts have done so far in the 2020 election. Guest sure. So about four months ago, a number of us former federal officials pulled together the National Council for election integrity. We now have over 40 members of this council. Its evenly divided between republicans and democrats. It includes former members of congress, like bill frist, dash ill, tom ridge, a number of others. We also have former cabinet secretaries, like madeleine former department of Homeland Security secretaries. And weve got three former fourstar generals or admirals. Weve got a pretty broadbased group. And our concern four months ago was that with the pandemic and with the high volume of mailin ballots required because people didnt want to vote in person as much as usual, and because of the possible closeness of this election, we knew that this could be a problem having a successful election. And getting both sides, whatever happened, to accept the results and to h
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Atsarah brain, sunday night 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Election law codirector at William William mary ann professor of law from william mary. Good morning to you. Guest how are you . Host youre here to talk about the Trump Campaign challenges of the 2020 20 president ial election vote. Every president ial election has a timetable, but there are 50 different states, obviously, and 50 different ways to count and certify the votes, and that is the phase we are in now with eagle challenges mounted legal challenges mounted in several states. Professor greene, how did all of these different 50 states come together . What is the end results here in december on december 14 . Now happening guest so its happening now is they are in the process of canvassing their votes. Each state has a different deadline ranging from november 10 and december 11. On december 14, the Electoral College will meet in each state and the electors will cast their ballots required by state law to be the popular