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President Donald Trump’s campaign team filed a lawsuit on election day to stop vote counting in Clark County, Nevada’s largest district, including the city of Las Vegas. There is disagreement about the accuracy of technology used to verify signatures and the access of election observers, some of whom argue that they are kept away from polling stations.

The Trump campaign and the Nevada Republican party branch have asked the state Supreme Court to speed up their case. Last week, a lower court declined to do so on the grounds that there is not enough evidence that Clark County officials have done anything wrong.

Trump’s campaign team argues that it will suffer irreparable damage if that judgment does not end. It wants the Nevada Supreme Court to ban Clark County from “authenticating ballots using artificial intelligence” and counting votes without allowing observers to “meaningfully observe the process.”

“In addition to being illegal, the rules of observation fall short of ensuring transparency and integrity, as they do not allow the public to see election officials at key moments in ballot processing,” the Trump campaign said.

The case was initially filed last week because Clark Count officials have allegedly refused to allow full monitoring of vote counting, as required under Nevada law. The judge said last week about that claim that there is too little evidence for it. Aaron Ford, Nevada’s chief prosecutor and a Democrat, describes the lawsuit as “an attempt by the Trump campaign to disrupt the Clark County election process.”

Trump has announced that he will try to control the election through the courts. For the time being, the lawsuits are mainly aimed at preventing the rules on voting by mail from being relaxed.

More Americans than ever have voted in the elections by letter over the corona epidemic. Despite what experts say, President Donald Trump and his Republican party members claim that postal voting encourages electoral fraud.

According to the Democrats, this is an excuse for the Republicans to exclude Democratic voters and thus bend the elections to their will. Postal voting has thus become one of the big points of contention in the run-up to the presidential elections.

Pennsylvania

A suburban district near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is also being charged for allegedly having started counting postal votes before it was allowed. It concerns the Montgomery County district, which is expected to vote predominantly for the Democrats. Pennsylvania is considered a pivotal state in the struggle for the presidency.

The indictment was filed Tuesday in a federal court in Philadelphia by a Republican parliamentary candidate. A Montgomery County spokesperson says the charge pertains to just 49 ballots. Vote counting is prohibited by law in Pennsylvania before 7:00 a.m. on election day.

The Republicans also claim that election officials in Montgomery County are giving voters who have made mistakes on their ballots a chance to correct them. President Donald Trump’s party is asking the federal judge to require the district to refuse ballots that are deficient or have been corrected.

The indictment comes after President Donald Trump announced that he will try to control the election through the courts. For the time being, the lawsuits are mainly aimed at preventing the rules on postal voting and the counting of postal votes from being relaxed.

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Financial news:

• The main stock market gauge fell into the red after the first results in Florida, because Trump is doing better than expected there. Now that the same thing seems to be happening in Ohio for Biden, that loss has also been made up. Wall Street closed much higher on election day. Investors hope that once in the White House, Biden will drive up government spending significantly – which in turn is good for business.
• At the same time, the gold price has been rising for three days in a row. A troy ounce – the standard measure for the precious metal – now costs just over $ 1,900. Gold is regarded as ‘congealed distrust’: investors stock up on the precious metal in case the elections turn into a deadlock, uncertainty and a heavy blow to the stocks – then they always have the gold.
• Our columnists look ahead to the election results. Read here, among other things, the contributions of Rabobank economist Teeuwe Mevissen, Jaap van Duijn in Jan Maarten Slagter.

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