Legal expert in Trump’s election litigation: showing evidence is key

President Donald Trump and his team are continuing to promote litigation in key battlefield states that have gone from Republican to Democratic as part of President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory.

In a statement released after Biden’s victory, Trump said the elections were far from over.

Professor John Pavia, who worked with President George W. Bush’s legal team on the Florida voter recount for the presidential election against Al Gore in 2000, says Trump’s legal team will question the integrity of the electoral process. in the United States for a permanent cause.

“It needs to be shown that somehow the process was so systematically flawed that it deprived people of a real vote,” Pavia says. “The more he can establish that there were systemic flaws that did not protect against fraud or error, the better chance he will have of somehow arguing that the entire election and trial violated equal protection or some other constitutional right.”

Pavia ordered motions in Florida county courts to initiate voter counting when he worked with the Bush legal team in 2000. Explain the differences between this year’s Al Gore / Bush election.

“We are dealing with postal and absent voting at a level that we have never seen here in the country before. So, the attack and the attempt to create this evidential case that there was some sort of problem is very different,” Pavia says.

Trump suggested in a series of tweets the legitimacy of ballot papers by post and claimed victory in states that had not completed the ballot count.

“President Trump is actually doing a disservice to the strategy of his own case and is making statements that he cannot yet support,” Pavia explains.

So far, Trump’s campaign has filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania, and a recount has been ordered in Georgia. They will also ask for a recount in Wisconsin.

“We were talking about one state in 2000. You’re talking about five, six states this time. That’s a lot to handle disputes,” he explains.

Trump said in a statement that his campaign will begin pursuing his case in court on Monday.