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Charles J. Cicchetti is the Managing Director of the of the California-based consulting firm Berkeley Research Group. He authored a legal brief containing flawed analysis in support of a lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Supreme Court seeking to invalidate the Electoral College votes of several battleground states that elected president-elect Joe Biden.
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