2024 US Presidential election is under scrutiny as lawsuit claims discrepancies in Rockland County, New York
A lawsuit challenging the 2024 US Presidential election accuracy, filed by SMART Legislation, highlights alleged voting discrepancies in Rockland County, New York. The lawsuit seeks a hand recount of ballots in presidential and Senate races, with a hearing scheduled for September 22. Statistical anomalies and sworn affidavits questioning the results have fueled the legal challenge.
A formal complaint alleged that more voters submitted sworn affidavits claiming they voted for independent U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare than were recorded and certified by the Rockland County Board of Elections, raising questions about the official results.
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A legal case challenging the accuracy of the 2024 US Presidential election is gaining traction. The lawsuit was filed by SMART Legislation , the advocacy arm of SMART Elections, a nonpartisan watchdog organization and it focuses on alleged voting discrepancies in Rockland County, New York, reports NewsWeek. The lawsuit is seeking a full, hand recount of ballots cast in the presidential and U.S. Senate races in Rockland County. A hearing has been scheduled for September 22.When the results of the US elections were declared in November last year, a shift towards the Republican was seen across the country – even in the deeply Democratic stronghold of New York City.In May, New York Supreme Court Judge Rachel Tanguay ruled in open court that the allegations were serious enough to warrant the discovery process. The lawsuit could raise questions and debate about the 2024 US Presidential election but it won't change the result as Congress has certified the results declaring President Donald Trump as the winner.The lawsuit comes at time when unconfirmed reports claimed that voting machines were secretly altered before ballots were cast during elections in November. According to the Dissent in Bloom Substack, Pro V&V—a federally accredited testing laboratory that approved "significant" changes to ES&S voting machines used in over 40% of U.S. counties—"vanished from public view" following the election.Lulu Friesdat, the founder and executive director of SMART Legislation, said in a statement: "There is clear evidence that the Senate results are incorrect, and there are statistical indications that the presidential results are highly unlikely."If the results are incorrect, it is a violation of the constitutional rights of each person who voted in the 2024 Rockland County general election. The best way to determine if the results are correct is to examine the paper ballots in a full public, transparent hand recount of all presidential and Senate ballots in Rockland County. We believe it's vitally important, especially in the current environment, to be absolutely confident about the results of the election."A formal complaint alleged that more voters submitted sworn affidavits claiming they voted for independent U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare than were recorded and certified by the Rockland County Board of Elections, raising questions about the official results. The complaint also points to several statistical anomalies in the presidential election returns, including districts where hundreds of voters selected Democratic Senate candidate Kirsten Gillibrand, yet not a single vote was recorded for Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Kamala Harris.Max Bonamente, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the author of the Statistics and Analysis of Scientific Data, said in a paper that the 2024 presidential election results were statistically highly unlikely in four of the five towns in Rockland County when compared with 2020 results.Max Bonamente said in a paper on the voting data from Rockland County: "These data would require extreme sociological or political causes for their explanation, and would benefit from further assurances as to their fidelity."Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: "Statistical irregularities in elections should always be investigated, but the sources of such inconsistencies, which can include error or miscalculation, are not always nefarious. Still, scrutinizing election results can strengthen confidence in elections. Mistakes can happen."In this case, the drop-off inconsistencies could reflect the idiosyncratic nature of the 2024 presidential election cycle. Alone, statistical comparisons to previous cycles cannot provide definitive proof of wrongdoing."In any case, it does not appear that any of these inconsistencies would be sufficient to change the outcomes of any of the elections in question in New York state. That does not mean they should not be scrutinized, and any errors, if verified, should be corrected for the historical record. But there is not necessarily any need to invalidate any of these elections in these jurisdictions."
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