自选举日以来，特朗普的竞选活动带来了一系列诉讼全国各地都在努力寻找连任的途径，但是现在来自不同州的四名法官以惊人的一致性和相似的语言进行了权衡——发现没有足够的证据支持这一说法。
本周，内华达州、佐治亚州、宾夕法尼亚州和密歇根州的法官拒绝了竞选团队停止计票过程的努力，哪怕只是暂时的，或者基于对不正当或邪恶行为的不可靠指控以某种方式改变计票过程。
当特朗普的律师提出他们的投诉时选举观察员被剥夺了足够的权限来观察选票的处理过程，当律师们承认观察员实际上被允许在投票工作人员15英尺内时，美国地方法官保罗·戴蒙德似乎很吃惊。
“对不起，那你有什么问题?”钻石说。
本周，在佐治亚州，一名法官驳回了竞选团队迫使查塔姆县分离和解释迟到选票的努力，原因是担心该县可能处理选票不当，这一指控是基于一名州外投票工作人员仅涉及53张选票的事件。法官说，他认为“没有证据”支持这一说法。
就在几个小时后，密歇根州的一名法官否认了竞选团队在密歇根州马科姆县(底特律的所在地)停止缺席计票的努力，因为有人指控特朗普的竞选观察员没有获得观察选举过程的“有意义的机会”。
“来吧，”密歇根法官辛西娅·斯蒂芬斯在查看总统律师提交的证据时说，该证据称，一名投票观察人员被指示对迟到的邮件选票进行倒填，以使其有效。"我所掌握的充其量只是一份道听途说的宣誓书."
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最近，周五晚上，内华达州的一名法官拒绝努力在民主党大本营拉斯维加斯所在的克拉克县扔掉签名验证机，理由是该竞选团队称之为“邮件选票认证程序松懈”美国地方法官安德鲁·戈登(Andrew Gordon)表示，他认为共和党没有“足够的证据”支持其主张。
作为诉讼的一部分，内华达州共和党也试图让观察员更接近——类似于宾夕法尼亚州和密歇根州的要求。该党的律师认为，观察员应该足够接近，以听到投票工作人员所说的一切。法官往后推了推，问如果有人说话轻声细语，他们会怎么办。
“这在什么时候变得荒谬了?”法官问道。
到目前为止，这场运动为提升对不当行为的指控而使用的地方性事件，无法说服法官给予这场运动所寻求的大规模救助。尽管如此，总统和他的盟友仍然坚持认为，他们在新闻发布会和社交媒体上有不当行为的证据。
“当美国看到我们揭露的一切时，他们会感到厌恶，”总统的儿子小唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)在周五早上的推特上坚称。
特朗普在周五发布的一份声明中表示，他计划继续探索法律途径。
特朗普的书面声明称:“我们将通过法律的各个方面推进这一进程，以保证美国人民对我们的政府有信心。”。“我永远不会放弃为你和我们的国家而战。”
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该运动正在追查的一些案件已经向前推进。一名宾夕法尼亚州法官同意给予竞选观察员更接近选举工作人员。和美国最高法院法官塞缪尔·阿利托命令宾夕法尼亚州官员隔离周五晚到的邮寄选票，以防高等法院决定权衡其有效性。
尽管如此，民主党提名人乔·拜登的高级律师表示，他还没有看到他认为有能力影响选举结果的法律行动。
律师鲍勃·鲍尔周四说:“诉讼是没有价值的。”。“所有这些都是为了制造一片巨大的乌云，这是特朗普竞选团队的希望，没有人能看穿。但不是很厚的云。不难看出他们在做什么。我们看透了。法院也是如此，选举官员也是如此。”
无党派的布伦南投票权中心的主任迈娜·佩雷斯说，书写星期五，她认为到目前为止提起的诉讼是“无聊的”，她认为这些诉讼不会最终影响选举结果。
佩雷斯写道:“我们的司法机构应该保护投票权，但我们没有看到对司法机构作用的尊重。”。“联邦和州法院正陷入其他法院已经谈过的或成年人应该能够解决(或两者都有)的争端。”
周五，特朗普竞选团队邀请保守派活动家大卫·博西开展有凝聚力的法律工作当总统规划前进的道路时。博西周五晚上出现在福克斯新闻上，被问及他打算如何将对投票观察员缺乏接触的投诉转化为有助于特朗普选举机会的补救措施。
“竞选团队正在弄清楚我们的法律补救措施到底是什么，”博希回答道。“我们将为每一张合法选票而战，我们将确保我们为那些被扔掉的非法选票而战。”
Judges want more evidence from Trump campaign as election cases get tossed
Since Election Day, the Trump campaign has broughta series of lawsuitsaround the country in an effort to find a path to reelection, but four judges in different states have now weighed in with striking consistency and similar language -- finding there is no sufficient evidence to back the claims.
This week, judges in Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan have rejected the campaign's efforts to halt the counting process, if only temporarily, or alter it in some way based on shaky allegations of improper or nefarious conduct.
When Trump's lawyers took their complaint aboutelectionobservers being denied sufficient access to watch the processing of ballots, U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond appeared startled when the lawyers then acknowledged that the observers had, in fact, been permitted within 15 feet of the poll workers.
"I'm sorry, then what's your problem?" said Diamond.
In Georgia this week, a judge rejected the campaign's effort to force Chatham County to separate and account for late-arriving ballots over a concern that the county may be mishandling ballots, an allegation based on an incident involving one out-of-state poll worker involving just 53 ballots. The judge said he saw "no evidence" to back up the claim.
And just hours later, a Michigan judge denied the campaign's effort to halt absentee ballot counting in Macomb County, Michigan, home to Detroit, over allegations that Trump campaign observers were not given "meaningful access" to observe the process.
"Come on now," Michigan Judge Cynthia Stephens said while looking over the evidence presented by the president's lawyers, which alleged a poll watcher had been instructed to back-date late-arriving mail-in ballots to make them count. "What I have, at best, is a hearsay affidavit."
Most recently, a judge in Nevada on Friday nightdenied an effortto toss out signature-verification machines in Clark County, home to Democrat-stronghold Las Vegas, based on what the campaign said was "lax procedures for authenticating mail ballots." U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon said he didn't think the Republican Party arrived in court with "sufficient evidence" to support its claims.
As part of the lawsuit, the Nevada GOP also attempted to get closer-up access for observers -- similar to demands in Pennsylvania and Michigan. The party's lawyer argued that observers should be close enough to hear everything poll workers were saying. The judge pushed back, asking what they would do if someone was soft-spoken.
"At what point does this get ridiculous?" the judge asked.
So far, the localized incidents that the campaign has used in an effort to elevate allegations of misconduct have been unable to convince judges to grant the campaign the large-scale relief it is seeking. The president and his allies have nonetheless continued to insist they had evidence of misconduct at press conferences and on social media.
"When America sees everything we are uncovering they will be disgusted," insisted Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, in a tweet early Friday morning.
In a statement released Friday, Trump said he planned to continue to explore legal avenues.
"We will pursue this process through every aspect of the law to guarantee that the American people have confidence in our government," Trump's written statement said. "I will never give up fighting for you and our nation."
Some cases the campaign is pursuing have pressed forward. One Pennsylvania state judgeagreed to givethe campaign's observers closer access to election workers. And U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alitoordered Pennsylvania officials to segregatelate-arriving mail-in ballots on Friday in case the high court decided to weigh their validity.
Still, the senior attorney for Democratic nominee Joe Biden said he has yet to see legal action he considers capable of impacting the outcome of the election.
"The lawsuits are meritless," attorney Bob Bauer said Thursday. "All of this is intended to create a large cloud that, it is the hope of the Trump campaign, that nobody can see through. But it is not a very thick cloud. It's not hard to see what they're doing. We see through it. So will the courts, and so do election officials."
Myrna Perez, a director at the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Voting Rights,wroteFriday that she considers the lawsuits filed so far to be "frivolous," and she does not think they will ultimately impact the outcome of the election.
"Our judiciary is supposed to protect the right to vote, but we're not seeing a lot respect for the role of the judiciary," Perez wrote. "Federal and state courts are getting tied up in disputes that other courts have spoken on or that grown-ups should be able to work out (or both)."
On Friday, the Trump campaign tapped conservative activist David Bossie todevelop a cohesive legal effortas the president maps out a path forward. Appearing on Fox News Friday evening, Bossie was asked how he intended to turn complaints about a lack of access for poll observers into a remedy that would help Trump's election chances.
"The campaign's figuring out exactly what our legal remedies are," Bossie replied. "We're going to fight for every single legal vote, and we're going to make sure we fight for those illegal votes to be thrown out."
