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The Pennsylvania Republican Party asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to stop counting late votes. Democrat Joe Biden took the lead in the US elections in the state, decisive for victory.
Donald Trump’s party has asked the court to stop counting the votes of thousands of ballots sent by mail that arrived after Tuesday (3), Election Day. Most of these bills would be in favor of Biden.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ruled on Friday that these votes sent by mail and received after November 3 are counted in parallel. The decision, however, does not interrupt the counting of these ballots, as the Republicans wanted.
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Additionally, the petition asks the court to order state election officials to confiscate all ballots received after Election Day and to review the state government’s decision to accept them.
“Given the results of the general election on November 3, 2020, the vote in Pennsylvania may well determine the next president of the United States,” Republicans said.
Republicans have been questioning the state’s decision to accept ballots sent Nov. 3 for months. On October 19 of this year, the Supreme Court, which had a vacant seat at the time, refused to make a decision because there was a 4-4 tie between its Liberal and Conservative members.
However, it was indicated that the case could be resumed later. Since the end of October, the highest court in the country is once again full, with the confirmation of the conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett, appointed by Trump.
If the court decides to suspend and accept the case, it has the power to declare invalid ballots that arrived late, which are already separated from the rest.
