"Heads they win, tails you lose."

If you pay attention you may have heard that some courts have dismissed lawuits charging election fraud by claiming relief was barred by the doctrine of "laches"--even though the lawsuit in question was filed just three weeks after election day!

To avoid having their suit dismissed on this bullshit argument, two lawsuits in Georgia regarding the runoff election that will determine control of the U.S. senate have been filed before vote counting has begun.  So you can guess what the judges in those cases ruled, right?

Yep:  "You haven't shown that you've been harmed YET, so you're dismissed because you lack 'standing' to sue."

Yesterday federal judges dismissed two Republican lawsuits seeking to tighten up Georgia's rules for absentee voting ahead of two runoff elections that will determine control of the U.S. senate.

In the first case, Judge J. Randal Hall dismissed a lawsuit from the 12th Congressional District Republican Committee.  Hall said the plaintiffs' allegations that the absentee ballot process increases the likelihood of voter fraud was not substantial enough to warrant changing the rules amid a runoff election.

Hall said plaintiffs could have challenged the election rules months ago.  He also said they had not shown any injury that would give them standing to bring such a lawsuit (i.e. dismissing for "lack of standing," just as the Supreme Court claimed).  He called their allegations of fraud “highly speculative.”

In the second case, given the reported refusal by Democrat poll workers to bother checking to see if signatures on absentee ballots matched those on file, the two Republican candidates for the senate seats had asked the court to order poll workers to obey the clear, unambiguous law requiring verification that signatures matched.  This too was rejected.  

Starting to see the pattern yet?  File after the steal and Republicans get dismissed for laches.  File before vote counting has begun and you're dismissed because supposedly "You haven't show that you've been harmed yet, so you lack 'standing' to file suit."

So for Republicans it would seem there's a 3-millisecond window after the official announcement of the final vote tally to file suit alleging fraud.

Whoops!  Too late!