A 1,000-foot view of what's going on right now

So much is going on from a national point of view that is not being reported in mainstream media, it can be hard to keep up. But here is a quick 1,000-foot overview.

President Donald Trump’s team has been filing lawsuits in swing states where they have hundreds of affidavits of election workers, voters and expert testimony of voter and election fraud, or like in Pennsylvania, where the voting systems were changed without going through the legislature and a judge has already ruled in their favor on that one. They also have a case that they are taking to the Supreme Court where they expect to win.

Their second prong is that they have been working with state legislatures in those swing states to hold hearings, so that the legislators can hear from the people of their state who are testifying to the apparent fraud.

So far, they have held hearings in Pennsylvania and Arizona. There are hearings being planned for Michigan and possibly other states.

Most states have already certified their elections despite the preponderance of evidence for some election and voter interference and fraud.

The Trump team plan, as with Pennsylvania, is for the legislature to hear enough evidence that they choose to take back their power as it relates to appointing electors because the people they delegated that power to have failed to provide a fair and free election.

“There’s no question the legislature has a role. The Constitution of the United States, Article II, section 1, clause 2, says that the presidential election shall be conducted by the state Legislature – not the governor, not the commissioner of elections, not the crooked political officials in Philadelphia – but by the state Legislature,” Giuliani said during the Pennsylvania hearing.

This investigation is tough because of the time constraints and also the legislatures are out of session and have to continue or come back into session, but it’s possible.

In the hearings there has been testimony from cybersecurity experts, data and computer scientists and poll workers citing impossible spikes in the reported numbers of votes for Biden and other abnormalities. There was also testimony that the voting machines were connected to the internet which, according to the experts, makes it very easy to commit fraud and is actually illegal.

Attorney Sidney Powell is leading another team that is concentrating specifically on Dominion Voting Systems, Scorecard and other software being used for the elections in as many as 38 states.

Her lawsuits are different from Trump’s team because they are fighting for election integrity for “We the people.” Her lawsuits are going to take longer and may end up with criminal charges for Democrats and Republicans.

These lawsuits are important not only to preserve America and the integrity of our elections, but they could have implications in other parts of the world where they are propping up dictators and governments with rigged elections.

There were alleged seizures of Dominion servers in Germany. That could prove interesting.

There have been documented problems with election fraud before now. Judicial Watch in the last few years has been going after states to clean up their voter rolls. They signed a settlement agreement with the state of California and Los Angeles County last year under which they were supposed to begin the process of removing from their voter registration rolls as many as 1.5 million inactive registered names that may be invalid. These removals are required by the National Voter Registration Act.

Los Angeles County has 10 million voters which is more than 41 other states. There are more registered voters than adults in the county making it ripe for fraud.

In fact, 11 of California’s 58 counties have registration rates exceeding 100% of the age-eligible citizens.

The Thomas Moore Society retained Matt Braynard’s group, who called thousands of mail in voters and found that almost half of them said they did not request or return a ballot. He has said that the FBI had requested all of his data.

So, there are a lot of groups working to make sure our elections are fair and free of fraud. I am thankful for these groups who are willing to give up their time and money and face the backlash of those who think everyone should just be quiet and mind their own business.

Julie Reeder can be reached by email at [email protected].