Judge rules that Eastman knew--or should have known with minimal investigation--that the election fraud he was promoting was bogus:
Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney
FACTUAL FINDINGS: The judge who ordered Eastman's disbarment spent the first 75 pages of her ruling explaining why Eastman's claims about election fraud were based on data that he did--or should have--known were unreliable, with even miminal due diligence.
A sampling:
1) Deceased voters in Georgia: The data Eastman used to claim 10,315 dead people voted did not account for high likelihood of false positives.
2) Convicted felons voting: Eastman relied on data showing 2,560 felons voting but also failed ot account for high likelihood of false positives.
3) Underage registrations: Eastman relied on data claiming 66,247 underage registrants, but it turned out to be based on an error and revised down to 778. It's not clear whether any of these 778 actually voted in 2020.
4) Eastman relied on a claim that 1,043 voters improperly registered with nonresidential addresses, but the data failed to account for some voters who live in commercial facilities or simply misunderstood registration forms.
5) Eastman claimed in his infamous 6-page memo that Michigan mailed out absentee ballots to every registered voter, eliding the fact that what was maield were *applications* for absentee ballots, not ballots themselves.
6) Eastman's Jan. 6 remarks on the Ellipse implied Dominion voting machine fraud even though he had seen no "conclusive" evidence that such fraud occurred.
As she repeatedly noted, Judge Roland said Eastman simply accepted favorable claims and ignored more persuasive rebuttals.
