Eastman Urged PA Officials To Toss Absentee Ballots

Politico reports:

Attorney John Eastman urged Republican legislators in Pennsylvania to retabulate the state’s popular vote — and throw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots — in order to show Donald Trump with a lead, according to newly unearthed emails sent in December 2020, as Trump pressured GOP lawmakers to subvert his defeat.

This recalculation, he posited in an exchange with one GOP state lawmaker, “would help provide some cover” for Republicans to replace Joe Biden’s electors from the state with a slate of pro-Trump electors, part of a last-ditch bid to overturn the election results.

Per the exchange, Eastman suggested that GOP legislators could simply cite their concerns with Pennsylvania’s absentee ballot procedures and then use historical data to “discount each candidates’ totals by a prorated amount based on the absentee percentage those candidates otherwise received.”

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MORE: In another exchange — days after Jan. 6 — Eastman suggests he had previously met with former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, another ally in Trump’s effort to subvert the election. https://t.co/03bDxoHwZY pic.twitter.com/Tnly1mF6u0

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 11, 2022

Here’s John Eastman straight-up saying PA should send Trump electors by not actually counting votes, but pro-rating them after excluding a bunch. pic.twitter.com/UVpJJQ9iLy

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) May 11, 2022