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Courts in Michigan and Georgia have rejected this Thursday lawsuits filed by the team of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to stop the counting of votes in these states, key to declining the balance of the electoral result.
In reference to Michigan, a state court has dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign, which called for the immediate suspension of the vote count until their representatives had “meaningful” access to the count.
Judge Cynthia Stephens had been highly skeptical of the lawsuit as, in her view, the case lacked admissible evidence.
The electoral system could deliver the final results in several more days / Getty In addition, in a hearing held hours before, he has expressed his exasperation for the Trump campaign movement and has concluded the session by noting that he was postponing the matter “where everyone here seeks to have a complete and fair electoral process,” reports the television network CNN.
For her part, the lawyer representing Michigan, Heather Meingast, has indicated that the case was “debatable” because the recount has already concluded (in favor of the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden).
As for Georgia, a court has refused to admit a lawsuit filed by state Republicans to prevent “unfair post-election vote recount” in the city of Savannah.
They filed the lawsuit after an election observer from the Republican Party reportedly saw unaccounted early votes mixed with others that did. According to the record provided by the Georgia Republicans, there were not many ballots.
Trump had announced shortly before that his team would challenge for “fraud” the count in all the states that in the last hours have opted for Biden’s side and has requested that the ballots that may arrive at the end of electoral day be taken into account .
“Stop the count!” Said Trump, in a message in capital letters in which he once again demanded what he had already asked for in his speech on election night, when he proclaimed himself the winner of the elections and warned of possible fraud to favor of his rival.
AP Trump has stressed on Twitter that “no vote that arrives after election day will be counted,” a message that the social network itself has classified as ‘misleading’.
“We will challenge for fraud (…) the states claimed by Biden recently,” announced the president, who said he had “a lot of evidence” and called to “check the media,” in apparent allusion to unconfirmed information. Trump, for example, considers he has a “great legal victory” in Pennsylvania, one of the pending states.
Trump’s reelection chances rest on a contradictory, long-term strategy: an attempt to halt the counting of votes in the states where he believes he is in the lead, while demanding that the recount continue in the territories where he loses to Biden. .
The Trump campaign has sent a team to Arizona, a state that some projections give Biden, to ensure hundreds of thousands of votes are counted by mail, according to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Although the president has repeatedly affirmed that voting by mail is plagued with fraud, his campaign manager, Bill Stepien, has indicated that Trump’s team believes that those votes will favor him by up to 70 percent and make the state back to the Republican side.
Trump’s team also called for an official recount in Wisconsin on Wednesday, where Biden has won by more than 20,000 votes. In addition, he filed lawsuits to stop the recount in Pennsylvania and Michigan, alleging that poll workers did not give his campaign adequate access to observe the recount.
AP Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, by contrast, has kept a lower profile in the past two days. Already in his first public words he avoided singing victory as his partner did.
Back in Pennsylvania
In this context, a Pennsylvania court has ruled in Trump’s favor and ruled that his team will be able to observe the recount process in Philadelphia, which the president’s campaign has associated with a massive victory.
No court has found irregularities in the vote counting process in Philadelphia, CNN recalled. The votes that can decide which side to tip the balance in Pennsylvania, a key state for the electoral outcome, are in this city.
Election officials in Philadelphia have been quick to go to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to try to reverse the ruling. In his opinion, allowing Trump’s team to be present at the recount endangers the security of the votes and the privacy of the voters, according to the brief filed with the court.
The legal battle has forced poll workers to stop counting just before noon (local time), although they have already started again.
In response, the Trump campaign has again filed another lawsuit against Philadelphia election officials, for allegedly violating their due process rights by blocking the presence of his team in the city count.
Getty As reported by CNN, the complaint does not include any details about how and why this alleged blockade occurred and, again, it has been presented in federal court alleging violations of constitutional law instead of state law.
Biden asks to “count all votes”
Biden, for his part, has repeated that “all votes must be counted”, a message that has also been reiterated by his running mate, Kamala Harris, who has stated that “each and every vote must be counted.”
The Biden campaign has also criticized the Trump team’s move, which it has defined as “part of a broader disinformation campaign that includes some political theater” and “without merit,” according to Bloomberg.
In the opinion of Biden advisor Bob Bauer, the lawsuits are “an attempt to create a great fog” over the election results, but “it is not a very thick cloud,” he said.
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