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The Supreme Court of the United States accepted this Friday a lawsuit filed by the Republicans as a matter of urgency and He ordered the state of Pennsylvania to separate the votes that arrived after election day on November 3, something that state protocols already contemplate.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, on Friday entrusted himself to the legal route as the only possible option to remain in power, hours after the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, snatched the advantage in Pennsylvania and Georgia, two states that he desperately needs to achieve reelection.
The Supreme Court, in an order written by Conservative Justice Samuel Alito, ordered Pennsylvania to comply with separating all votes received by mail after 8:00 p.m. on November 3 (at the close of the polls), to be stored separately and that if they are counted, it is also separately.
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Alito pointed out that the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania, the highest electoral authority, Kathy Boockvar (Democrat), “It has not been able to verify that all the electoral boards (of the counties) are complying with the order of the Secretariat” to separate those votes.
The order of the High Court responds to a lawsuit filed by the Republican Party to enforce the order to separate those votes in its ultimate goal of having them declared invalid, a process that is litigated in a parallel lawsuit.
As President Trump has already defended, Pennsylvania conservatives consider that mail-in votes received after Election Day should be considered invalid, even though the postmark reflects that they have been received on time.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court had extended the deadline for receipt of ballots issued by mail until Friday afternoon, due to the delays suffered by the Postal Service due to the increase in this type of vote due to the coronavirus. But the Republicans filed a lawsuit for its annulment and that is why they asked the federal Supreme Court to enforce that the votes are separated until it is resolved.
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EFE
