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Trump supporters demonstrated in Michigan.
Democrat Biden has become the elected president of the United States, but incumbent President Trump still plans to challenge the election results in some key states.
Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Fox News that Trump should not admit defeat because “there is strong evidence that in this election, at least three or four states, even ten, were robbed.”
The Trump campaign has not provided “strong evidence” related to this, but said it plans to file lawsuits in several key states on Monday.
This is what we currently know.
Pennsylvania
Giuliani said the lawsuit will be based on the state’s election supervisors being unable to enter the electoral college.
Voting supervisors are those who observe the vote count to ensure transparency. In most states, they can enter the electoral college as long as they register before Election Day.
This year, some regions imposed restrictions before Election Day, in part due to the new corona epidemic. There is also a limit on the number of people to avoid threats to health.
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Trump’s attorney Giuliani held a press conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The Philadelphia Counting Center has established a restricted area of 20 feet (6 meters), which is challenged. A court ruling on Thursday stated that the length of the restricted area should be reduced to 6 feet (approximately 2 meters) as long as voting supervisors comply with the new coronavirus agreement.
The Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit in federal court, accusing election officials of violating the judge’s order.
Giuliani said that in the specific implementation, the actual distance did not conform to the court’s ruling.
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An observer watches the vote count in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
But election officials insisted their approach was correct.
On November 5, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said: “All candidates and all political parties may have an authorized representative present to observe the election process. Some judges, including Philadelphia The jurisdiction also has live broadcasts. , so you can really see your counting process. “
Pennsylvania’s legal challenge also focused on how the state counted ballots that were postmarked before the Election Day deadline but arrived three days later. Republicans are seeking an appeal in this regard.
Matthew Weil, director of the election program for the Bipartisan Center for Policy Research, said he was more concerned about this controversy because the US Supreme Court was stuck on this issue before the election. This is prior to confirmation by President Trump-appointed Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
He said: “I believe that those ballots (published) cast on Election Day and received by Friday can be discarded.”
But Weir added: “My guess is that there will not be many votes that need to be cast off for this reason … so the election result may be very close.”
Michigan
In 2016, Trump won the state by a narrow margin and garnered 10,700 more votes than his opponent. Biden is expected to be the state winner this year.
On November 4, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit requesting to stop counting, claiming that they could not observe the entire process.
A judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying there was insufficient evidence to show that supervisory procedures were not followed.
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Wisconsin
Trump’s campaign team stated that they will require Wisconsin to recount votes based on “abnormal circumstances” discovered on Election Day, but this does not require litigation.
It is unclear when the vote will be counted again. Normally, the recount will not take place until the officials have reviewed the ballots. The state deadline for this part of the process is November 17.
Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia University School of Law, said Wisconsin also counted votes in 2016, “changing about 100 votes.”
Nevada
The Nevada Republican Party stated on Twitter: “Thousands of people have been identified. They voted after leaving Nevada, which seemed to violate the law.”
Trump’s legal team made a list of people on the list who claimed to have moved out of state, but voted.
However, as the independent verification site Politifact pointed out, this list alone does not prove a violation of the law.
People who leave the state within 30 days of the election can still vote in Nevada. Nevada students studying elsewhere can vote, too.
The focus of this case is on Clark County voters, but the county recorder said: “We don’t think there is anything wrong with the voting process.”
In another case, a federal judge rejected an attempt by Republicans to block the use of a signature verification machine, not believing that the machine could not correctly verify the signature.
Georgia
Chatham County, Georgia, filed a lawsuit requesting the suspension of ballot counting, alleging there were problems with ballot processing.
Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer said on Twitter that party watchers saw a woman “mixing up more than 50 votes in a pile of uncounted votes.”
On November 5, a judge dismissed the lawsuit and said there was “no evidence” that there was an improper mixed vote.
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The protests occurred in Phoenix, Arizona.
Arizona
The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in Arizona on Saturday, alleging that some legal votes were rejected.
The case cited statements from some voting observers and two voters who claimed there was a problem with the voting machine.
The lawsuit is under review, but the Arizona Secretary of State said it was an attempt to “take advantage of the chaff.”
Can the lawsuit go to the Supreme Court?
Earlier Wednesday, Trump claimed there was fraud in the vote without providing evidence and said, “We will appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.”
If the election result is contested, the legal team will first be asked to challenge it in state court. The state judge must then respond to this challenge and order a recount. Only then can the Supreme Court be asked to intervene.
Professor Breft said: “There is no standard procedure to follow for submitting electoral disputes to the Supreme Court. This is a very unusual move and should involve very important issues.”
So far, the 2000 elections are the only electoral ruling of the United States Supreme Court.
That year, Democrat Al Gore lost Florida by 537 votes in the presidential election, which had 6 million votes in total. Subsequently, a highly controversial recount process dragged on for more than a month, until the Supreme Court ruled that the recount must be stopped and Republican candidate George W Bush became President of the United States.
