A Pennsylvania court on Thursday gave victory to the campaign of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in one of the multiple lawsuits presented to reverse the election result, which Democrat Joe Biden won.
The decision affects an undetermined number of votes, although, according to state officials, they are far less than the more than 54,000 who separate Biden and Trump in the vote.
Pennsylvania state law gave six days after the election (that is, until November 9) for citizens who sent their votes by mail without an identification document to present a valid one.
Pennsylvania Secretary of State – the highest electoral authority – Democrat Kathy Boockvar, extended that deadline three days before the election until November 12, a decision that the Trump campaign challenged in court.
The court’s decision on Thursday, which had previously ordered the votes validated between November 10 and 12, to be kept separately, now gives Trump reason and orders the State not to include them in the final count.
The judge who signed the order, Mary Hannah Leavitt, said Boockvar “had no legal authority” to decide on the extension.
Although they did not indicate how many votes are at stake, local officials said the various actions filed by Trump are not going to affect Biden’s media projected Pennsylvania victory.
Biden currently accounts for 49.77% of the vote, against 48.96% for Trump.
Pennsylvania’s projection on Saturday morning gave Biden the delegates needed to declare himself the winner of the election, a victory that Trump has yet to recognize, alleging electoral fraud, but without providing evidence.
To beat Biden, who already has 290 delegates, Trump would have to prove the fraud in court and reverse the results, not just in one, but in several key states, something that is seen by analysts as extremely unlikely.
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