SULLIVAN et al
Updated: Feb 8
Once more for the folks in the back 📢
KATE SULLIVAN. MARLY HORNIK
👉🏾From January 28, 2024......
LET ME CUT THROUGH THE LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO and make sense of Sullivan et al v. Summers et al.
(I HAVE REVIEWED THE CASE).
FOLLOW THE LINKS FOLKS AND LEARN SOMETHING......‼️
♦️ I applaud the initiative.
♦️ Seasoned Election Integrity activists such as ourselves at Maryland 20-20 Watch have long defined such lawsuits as "low hanging fruit" designed to provide "wins" that later are used to fundraise off of but hardly deserve to be placed on a list of highly respected or accomplished jurisprudence. (The Fitton/Judicial Watch organization does it often). Most recently sued Montgomery County and while "winning" the case, the judge's order stated that the relief sought could not be granted because it was already the law. The case demanded Voter Rolls must submit to a regular process of "cleaning" and Maryland claims it does have that process in place*.....just not fast enough to satisfy some people; it's still in place and the law.
Fitton's spin was as follows: “Maryland politicians fought us tooth and nail to keep Judicial Watch from uncovering the full truth about their dirty election rolls,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This latest court victory will allow Judicial Watch to ensure Maryland and Montgomery County are removing voters who have moved or died long ago.” So tell me did Judicial Watch "ensure" anything really? Then why is Sullivan et al still shaking the tree?
♦️There can be only one outcome IMO to this instant case. Here are some of the choices I believe are available:
👉🏾1) dismissed for the reason above*.
👉🏾2) dismissed for "the usual reasons", such as: "failure to state a claim" that the court can grant, "lack of standing", "wrong venue/jurisdiction"; yutta yutta yutta.
👉🏾3) decided in favor the Plaintiffs* but granting only partial relief. Something Fitton failed to mention when he sued Montgomery County.
👉🏾4) did they skip a step by not approaching State court first?
✳️#1 - Please let me know what you do NOT comprehend about this process.
✳️#3 - but then so what? IMO a Mandamus Petition might have been a proper way to make a similar demand. In short, a "mandamus" basically is asking the court to "order" government to do something.
👉🏽 SOME DISCUSSION -
This Court or any decision that springs forth along these lines may weigh on what The Supreme Court decides in "Chevron".
The Sullivan et al case concerns are directly the cause of the Maryland Legislature deferring to a regulatory agency to create rules.....in this case, the "agency" IS the State Board of Elections which is empowered to "conduct" and manage all things "elections".
👉🏽FOR conversation, you might consider the question: "at what point is a law 'un-Constitutional'? I have for a long time argued, since most laws ARE "un-Constitutional" that any act only "ripens" when a threshold is crossed....for example, relating to this case - somebody is fined for violating the agreement in the "offending" affidavit. THEN a claim arises.
This court might find that until then since the Plaintiffs have ALREADY obtained the Voter Rolls from a previous election cycle prior to the new guidelines established and engaged in door to door canvassing (evidenced by their social media/webpage research and investigation claims and their public fundraising activities) that their rights, Constitutional or otherwise, were NOT violated.
The added question/conclusion could be raised: since there has been NO BALLOT YET cast in the 2024 Election, how can anyone claim a registration is incorrect or an illegal vote was cast (or counted)❓
MARYLAND VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINES ARE:
✅Online registration deadline: 21 days before Election Day
✅Register by mail deadline: Must be postmarked 21 days before Election Day
✅In person registration deadline: Available up to and including on Election Day.
👉🏽Seems to me the information you get TODAY will be different TOMORROW ‼️😉
.....one more thing -
👉🏽Where are the "Bills" filed in this legislative session to address this "un-Constitutional" violation by the Republicans who were presumably "elected" by the registered voters on those DIRTY VOTER ROLLS❓
FINALLY I can only surmise that by logical conclusion, if the court agrees that after legally obtaining the "Voter Rolls", the Plaintiffs are NOT BARRED from using that information for their research and investigations, it's already ESTABLISHED in many cases (ref: Saurbrey) that VOTER ROLLS are unreliable and cannot be used as evidence in any Court of competent jurisdiction. So where does this case get them.....❓
..... again back to wasting their time and energy gathering useless information that's inadmissible even before the mathematical fantasy and advanced extrapolation using their crystal ball.
⭐ REMEMBER - Maryland 20-20 Watch has always maintained and shown in detail that there are many provable "failings" in our Election process that could be addressed,
HOWEVER NOTHING illegal can happen without the "CORRUPT INTERNAL ELECTION PERSONNEL"© and bureaucrats knowing it‼️
.....AND ITS NOT LOST ON ME who is one of the Defendants.
A "REPUBLICAN".....🙄 BILL VOELP
📢 THEN THERE WAS MAY 30, 2023
The five-member Maryland State Board of Elections met Friday to review a tranche of applications for the position of Administrator to replace retiring Linda Lamone and determine which candidates are invited for interviews next week.
“Obviously, this is a personnel matter,” said William Voelp, a Hogan Republican, chair of the elections board. “So, we’re trying to be very careful not to use names and things like that just in fairness to the candidates.”
"A PERSONAL MATTER"⁉️ ITS A PUBLIC MATTER. WHERE'S THE TRANSPARENCY❓..... Just like your failure to do YOUR JOB is a PUBLIC MATTER when you act like a cowardly POS.
♦️A BOARD WITH THE POWER TO APPOINT HAS THE POWER TO REMOVE‼️ You've ALWAYS had the authority to REMOVE LAMONE AND ARMSTEAD JONES FOR SIMPLE INCOMPETENCE.
✳️ Maryland Code, Election Law § 2-201
✳️ MD Elec Law Code § 1-201
ON TO APRIL 23, 2024 - The saga continues...
UPDATE: the Kate Sullivan/Marly Hornik et al lawsuit.
Attorneys representing the Maryland State Board of Elections are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges voter roll irregularities and other election law violations in the state.
Two groups — MARYLAND ELECTION INTEGRITY LLC (Kate Sullivan's group) and (New York Marly Hornik's) Missouri-based UNITED SOVEREIGN AMERICANS — filed suit against the state board for maintaining inaccurate voter registration lists and violating federal election law.
Earlier this month, the groups asked U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher to issue an injunction against the state that could derail the May 14 primary and possibly the general election in Maryland.
On Monday, an attorney representing the board responded, asking Gallagher to dismiss the lawsuit or, at a minimum, deny the request for the restraining order.
♦️ WHAT'D I SAY [January 28, 2024]❓ I've stated in the past that these two groups efforts are destined to fail....
✳️ See # 2..... A first year law student could have written a better brief to anticipate the defense‼️
It's like the Plaintiffs are TRYING to lose. 🤔 #NewtonSaidIt
“The companies’ complaint, however,
👉🏾FAILS TO VEST THIS COURT WITH JURISDICTION TO ENTERTAIN THEIR ACCUSATIONS;
👉🏾and FAILS TO FACTUALLY ALLEGE A CLAIM UPON WHICH RELIEF COULD BE GRANTED. {emphasis added by me}
👉🏾The companies allege no ‘injury in fact’ explaining how their allegations of election maladministration injured any individual member,” wrote Daniel M. Kobrin, an assistant attorney general representing the Maryland State Board of Elections.
♦️FURTHER...
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown submitted a motion to dismiss in a lawsuit against the Maryland State Board of Elections on Monday, asserting that those who brought the complaint lack subject matter jurisdiction.
The case, Maryland Election Integrity, LLC et al v. Maryland State Board of Elections, brought by the same lawyer who represented DAN COX in a failed election-related lawsuit in 2022, was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland last month.
HERE'S THE FULL STORY from Maryland Matters -
HERE'S THE STORY from Herald- Mail, to compare -
AND YOU CAN READ THE CASE BRIEF, download it here:
💥 OK NOW LET'S MOVE ON AND FINISH WITH THIS 👇🏽 February 05, 2025.
>WE HOPE THIS WILL BE THE END<
LAME & THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I PREDICTED‼️
The embarrassment to the Election Integrity research & investigations community that THIS lawsuit caused, has severely undermined our recent successes with transparency and accountability. EVERYTIME these kinds of Limelighters and fundraising grifters LOSE it only adds to the win column of the CORRUPT INTERNAL ELECTION PERSONNEL & the fraudulent process that has become of our elections.....
✳️ THE groups identified by this post and in the attached "Banner" story are NOT associated with MARYLAND 20-20 WATCH, the state's ONLY legitimate nationally recognized Election Integrity research and investigative organization with over a decade of experience:
md20-20watch.com
{logged February 5, 2025 at 2pm}
FROM THE BALTIMORE BANNER:
"The plaintiffs wanted the court to bar the state from certifying the 2024 elections until their claims had been satisfied. 🤣
Cases like this have been filed in courtrooms across the country following President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss and after an angry mob backing Trump tried to stop the election certification. 🤔
♦️ The Maryland lawsuit was the first of many challenges filed by one plaintiff in this case, United Sovereign Americans, described on its website as “an organization of citizen volunteers working to ensure valid Constitutional elections.”
(HOW'S THAT WORKING OUT SO FAR❓)
Government transparency and democracy advocates assert that voting errors are rare and that Maryland elections have been upheld up as a national model.
The Maryland State Board of Elections and the Maryland Office of the Attorney General did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Attorney Bruce Castor Jr. represents United Sovereign Americans and filed the appeal. Had he been involved earlier in the Maryland case, he said, he would have done things differently, but the deadline to file was fast approaching. 🤔
“It was frustrating to stand there and get torpedoed by the judges,” Castor said. “I couldn’t really blame them, because I also thought that we were not in the best position.”👈🏾
If Castor’s name sounds familiar, that’s because he defended Trump during the Republican’s second impeachment trial as the U.S. Senate considered whether Trump incited an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Castor is considering how to proceed with his raft of lawsuits under a new Trump Administration and whether a new U.S. Attorney General would weigh in on election cases like his.
Co-plaintiff Katherine Strauch Sullivan, who runs Maryland Election Integrity, said she was disappointed in the opinion and that “a loss in court does not equate to a loss in principle.”
She asserted her group was not “re-litigating” an election. Now that Trump has won the election, she said, “We can now actually say we don’t care who wins.” 🤣
Sullivan said she and her colleagues will continue to hold the state and local boards of elections accountable, but will no longer pursue this particular case. 😂
“That doesn’t mean that in the future there might be something else,” she said.""
Brenda Wintrode brenda.wintrode@thebaltimorebanner.com
🚨 THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST AND FINAL "ORDER" FROM THE COURT.
FEBRUARY 04, 2025 👇🏽
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