In nearly 90 separate cases argued over the last six month, no federal court has supported the Trump campaign’s or the GOP’s allegation that the mail-in voting process led to widespread vote fraud, the Washington Post reports.
While President Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that mail-in voting will be rigged, or fraudulent, or tampered with, no jurist hearing the various cases to limit voter access to mail-in ballots has found the argument credible.
While the cases didn’t necessarily end in a decisive judicial win for Democrats–with judges opting to maintain the status quo in some motions–they do demonstrate a widespread skepticism of the arguments Trump and republicans will press after the election should Trump lose.
As reported in WaPo, judges have directly challenged lawyers for the republicans, who cannot defend their accusations:
“Do you have any evidence of any voter fraud actually existent in Montana in the last 10 to 20 years?” District Judge Dana L. Christensen, an appointee of President Barack Obama, pressed a GOP lawyer in a Missoula courtroom last week.
“No,” said the lawyer, James Bopp Jr., who is representing Republicans in a suit challenging the state’s decision to allow counties to run all-mail elections this fall. “No. But it is, with all due respect, I understand your question, but no, it’s irrelevant.”