Federal judge rejects Kansas lawsuit seeking to ban drop boxes and electronic voting machines

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Ruling largely critical of rhetoric in longshot election lawsuit
U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree indicated during a hearing Friday that he was unlikely to grant the motion and his ruling largely picks apart the case made by the plaintiffs. It is largely pessimistic about the odds of the larger lawsuit to find any success.

Elected officials, he said, "have chosen processes and methods to use in the state’s elections."

"It may not represent the system that plaintiffs prefer, and our Constitution entitles them to express their opinions," Crabtree wrote. "But nothing in the current record entitles them to sweeping use of federal judicial power to impose their views on their state or their fellow Kansans."

Those bringing the lawsuit, Crabtree said, do not have the standing to do so, as they have not demonstrated they have been directly harmed by the issues they allege.

Even if they did have the ability to bring the lawsuit, Crabtree said they did not demonstrate the resolution sought by the restraining order actually would address the allegations they made.

"Plaintiffs provide no cogent, or even plausible answer for those questions," he said. "Their failure, the court finds, places any putative irreparable harm at the speculative end of the spectrum — and nowhere near the 'significant risk' required by our Circuit’s standard."...

And... more of the same nonsense! “Long on suspicion, contingency and hypothesis, but short on facts.” GOOD JOB, your Honor.