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The United States Supreme Court on Friday accepted a lawsuit filed by Republicans urgently and ordered the state of Pennsylvania to separate the votes that arrived after election day on November 3, something that state protocols already contemplate.
US President Donald Trump was entrusted this Friday to the legal route as the only possible option to remain in power, hours after Democratic candidate Joe Biden snatched the lead in Pennsylvania and Georgia, two states he desperately needs to win re-election.
The supreme court, in an order written by Conservative Magistrate Samuel Alito, ordered Pennsylvania to comply with the separation of all votes received by mail after 8:00 p.m. on November 3 (at the close of the polls), that they be stored separately and that if they are counted, it is also separately.
Alito pointed out that the Pennsylvania Secretary of State -the highest electoral authority-, Kathy Boockvar (Democrat), “has not been able to verify that all electoral boards (of the counties) are complying with the order of the Secretary “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 being declared invalid, a process that is litigated in a parallel lawsuit.
As the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has already defended, Pennsylvania Conservatives consider mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be considered void, despite the fact that the postmark reflects that they have been received on time.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court had expanded until the afternoon of this Friday the deadline for receipt of the ballots issued by mail, 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 sued for its annulment and That is why they asked the Federal Supreme Court to enforce that the votes are separated until it is resolved.
What about North Carolina?
The media attention of the electoral count in the United States. is focusing these days on the key states of Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia, where the Democratic candidate for the White House, Joe Biden, maintains a very close lead, but little is being said about North Carolina, where President Donald Trump is ahead in the scrutiny.
The numbers of the counting in that state are very close, with 97% of the votes counted Trump is in front with 50% of the votess versus 48.6% for Biden.
Attention is now very focused on Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania, especially in the latter for its coveted twenty delegates in the electoral college, who would automatically give the victory to Biden, but before Tuesday’s election Trump’s victory in Carolina del Norte looked crucial in the face of his re-election.
Nowadays President leads Democrat in North Carolina by 76,000 votes, or what is the same 1.4 percentage points.
However, the results will not be known until well into this month, since the electoral boards of each county will not meet until November 13 to take into account the votes sent by mail that arrive until the 12th and Postmarked November 3, Election Day, or earlier.
The State Board of Elections will not meet until November 24 to offer results.
This is because there is a maximum of 171,666 votes that have not yet been counted: 99,000 voters requested ballot papers to vote by mail that have not yet been returned or accepted, and to this are added 31,900 postal votes that have arrived in recent days to the county boards that have not been officially approved.
Finally, 40,766 “provisional” votes, that is, of people who came to vote in person on election day without documentation, and that they should present their documents in the next few days so that their vote is validated.
Three days after election day on Tuesday, President Trump’s options to secure a second term are fading and has opted for the courts to fight the White House.
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