If you want to know where the hiccups in 2020 election ballot counting will come, just look at the battleground states run by Democrats who have moved the goal posts with extensions, according to Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis on Newsmax TV.
In fact, this election result might be challenged on an epic scale compared to the Bush v. Gore hanging-chad challenge in Florida 2000.
"A worst-case scenario is that where you had Bush v. Gore challenging that one state, that one issue, you're looking at maybe 17 Bush v. Gores, and having those states and different challenges go up to the Supreme Court," Ellis told "Saturday Report." "It could be a mess."
The only hope for maintaining election confidence will be a landslide result that will not have to be challenged in Democrat-run states that hijacked the coronavirus pandemic to move the goal posts on ballot counting, she said.
"The most troublesome states and the Democrat-led states that have tried to change their election law just months ahead of the election," Ellis told host Carl Higbie. "So, there have been a lot of different messages to clerks because of the ongoing litigation.
Ellis noted the Supreme Court has "kicked that question down the road" for emergency actions with ballot-counting extensions in two pivotal battleground states led by Democratic governors: North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Even if President Donald Trump wins those states on election night, the media is unlikely to call the election because of expected late votes tallied for Democrat Joe Biden, Ellis lamented.
"Justice Samuel Alito wrote a really good dissent, saying there was really no reason why the Supreme Court couldn't determine this up front, so that we and the American people understand what is the playing field, what are the rules going into Election Day, so we don't have this uncertainty going into the election," Ellis told Higbie.
Minnesota and Nevada are two other pivotal battlegrounds run by Democratic governors that have changes election laws, Ellis noted, pointing viewers to ProtecttheVote.net.
"This shouldn't be a partisan issue, but the Democrats have tried to harness the pretense of COVID just to try to change the election law and make this really uncertain for the American people," Ellis said.
"Looking at voting, even in the midst of COVID, there's really no reason and there's certainly no constitutional justification for these Democrat-led states to extend their ballot deadlines and have this issues arise. That just is so unnecessary."
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