President Donald Trump’s campaign removed a central part of the lawsuit that aimed to end certification of election results in Pennsylvania, the state where Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump, writes the The Guardian this Monday.
Trump’s campaign gives up this process before a hearing on the case, which would take place on Tuesday. At issue was the allegation that 682,479 mailed bulletins were processed illegally because Republican representatives seconded to the state did not observe the process.
The lawsuit, handed over to the Federal Court on Sunday, maintains the goal of preventing Pennsylvania from certifying Biden’s victory in the state. It also maintains the claim that Democratic voters were treated better than Republicans.
The remaining claims in the process are centered on disqualifying the votes of voters who had the opportunity to correct the ballots that would be disqualified for technical reasons, writes The Guardian. These aspects are defects identified in “Democratic-heavy counties” votes sent by mail before Election Day (November 3), such as the lack of an envelope containing the vote, the ” secrecy envelope ”, or the lack of voter signature on the outer envelope.
Cliff Levine, a lawyer representing the National Democratic Committee in this case, told the British newspaper that it is unclear how many voters had the opportunity to correct his ballot. However, he says the number is minimal and that it is certainly less than the margin that separates Biden from Trump – almost 70,000.
In any case, there is no provision in the law that does not allow counties to assist voters in correcting their ballot paper if it has technical defects. “They should [campanha de Trump] be suing counties that did not allow [os eleitores] making corrections, “Levine told The Guardian.” The goal should be to make sure that every vote counts. “
On November 7, the main North American media (including CNN and NBC) projected the Joe Biden win in the November 3 presidential election. The Democrat wins with 306 votes from the Electoral College, against 232 from Republican Trump.
The outgoing President of the United States, Donald Trump, this Sunday admitted the victory of the rival Joe Biden in the elections, but insisted that there was fraud – without providing evidence.
“He won because the elections were fraudulent. Voting observers were not allowed, votes were counted by a private company of the radical left, Dominion, which has a bad reputation and a deceitful team that did not even meet the requirements to operate in Texas (where I won by a large advantage), and the organs false and silent communication, and much more! ” wrote Trump on his Twitter account.
Its publication was marked by that social network with the phrase “this statement about election fraud is controversial”.
Trump has only achieved small victories in the courts, with setbacks such as Friday’s being followed in two Pennsylvania courts, where six lawsuits filed for his election campaign have been dismissed. Also on Friday, November 13, a Pennsylvania court ruled that small victory to the Trump campaign.
The decision affects an undetermined number of votes, but, according to state officials, it is far less than the 54,000 more votes that put Biden in the lead in this state.
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