Pennsylvania Court West District Judge Nicholas Ranjan also refused to throw policies in Pennsylvania, saying the signatures on the mail-in ballot did not strictly match the signatures of voters on file with the state and that polling workers were required to stay in the county where they would be. Work on election day.
He also dismissed Republicans’ fears of voter fraud, saying it was possible but not a possibility.
“While the plaintiff does not have to prove the fraud of the actual voters, but they must at least prove that such fraud is ‘definitely approaching.’ They have not fulfilled that burden. For the most part, they have made a sequence of uncertain assumptions together, “Ranjan wrote in a 138-page opinion.
Ranjan, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, noted that Pennsylvania state officials and the state Supreme Court have resolved many voting questions for the November election.
“The court found that the rules laid down and elected by the General Assembly, enforced by the defendants, do not significantly impose any right to vote. They are rational. They advance the vital interests of the state. They extend the Commonwealth’s extended electoral security.” “They will not run ahead of the United States Constitution. They will not be judged otherwise by this court,” he wrote.
The verdict can be appealed.
CNN Reached out to Trump’s campaign to comment.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro called the ruling a “victory for voters and our democracy,” adding in a statement: “We have been protecting the right to vote in court for months and working for all of you to get this result. Vote by mail. However, whichever you choose, your vote will be counted. “
Republicans in Pennsylvania are already in the U.S. Challenges the state’s voting provisions before the Supreme Court.
Lawyers for the Republicans filed an emergency petition in the High Court and asked to block the decision.
The story has been updated with additional developments on Saturday.
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