Pennsylvania court upholds Trump's tallying claim

Friday, 13 November 2020

The Pennsylvania Court of Appeals sided with incumbent President Donald Trump in his lawsuit over the registration of votes sent by mail. The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper reports.


The proceedings concerned voters' ballots received by mail, which did not confirm their identity. Under state law, residents were able to validate their votes within six days of the election (that is, until November 9). However, Secretary of State Katie Boquvar extended this deadline until November 12.

 

The court ruled that Boquvar did not have the authority to direct election commissions to extend the deadline for confirming the identity of voters.

 

As a result, the decision of the Secretary of State was canceled.

 

According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, the rejected ballots were not included in the official poll results in Pennsylvania, according to which Democrat Joe Biden is 54 thousand votes ahead of Trump. Therefore, the decision will probably not affect the voting results.


Pennsylvania was one of the "hesitant" states in which the vote could not be counted for several days.

 

Ultimately, the victory was given to Biden. Trump said that tens of thousands of votes in the state were "illegally altered" ,  which he lost the lead there. His associates have filed several lawsuits to obtain a review of the election results.because of 

 

The Supreme Court upheld a request from the Pennsylvania Republican Party and ordered the quarantine of some of the ballots that arrived in the mail after polling stations closed on November 3, until further notice.

 

The President's team also filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania authorities. Trump's headquarters claims that the state government created an "illegal two-tier voting system" in the presidential elections that violates the US Constitution. Boquard asked a federal judge to overturn the claim.

 

On November 7, the American media announced the victory of Biden, who received more than 270 electoral votes. Trump disagreed with this and announced that he won the election, and there were many irregularities in the counting in several states. The official results of the voting will be announced in December.

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