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The world had to wait a long time for a result after Election Day. However, since the weekend it has been clear: Democrat Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States. The incumbent Donald Trump doesn’t want to admit that. For days he has been spreading unfounded allegations of manipulation. In five states where Biden was declared the winner, his campaign team is cracking down on the result due to alleged wrongdoing. So far there is insufficient evidence to support the accusations.
As the “Washington Post” reports, Trump’s campaign team has asked supporters of the president to donate money that will be used to take legal action against alleged election fraud. In fact, several states have pending lawsuits over the elections. In this, the Washington Post reports, it is not about Trump’s repeated accusations of an electoral conspiracy against him. Large-scale electoral fraud is not mentioned either.
Instead, the complaints focus on individual groups of voters and details. Still, Trump’s team has been unsuccessful in court.
The group failed at first Pennsylvania In the court. There, challenger Biden could win with the help of mail-in votes. However, the team wanted to stop counting there by court order. The reason was that Republican observers had allegedly been denied access to the vote count. The accusation was wrong. A judge dismissed the lawsuit.
However, Trump’s team in Pennsylvania was able to achieve small successes in court. So it was imposed that the election observers could approach the counting machines. However, this step was not decisive for the election.
The Supreme Court has also ruled that in Pennsylvania, ballots that arrive after the polls close must be kept separate and counted. This makes it easier to not include them in the final count if they need to be invalidated. Judge Samuel Alito rushed on Friday at the request of Republicans. The authorities had already collected the ballots separately.
In several Pennsylvania cities, Republicans also wanted to prevent local election officials from publishing the names of voters whose mail-in ballots had been rejected due to errors such as missing a signature. Local counties publish names so voters can correct mistakes on their ballots. These demands also failed.
Court dismisses lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia
Also in Michigan Biden was initially behind Trump, but was later able to change status after mail-in votes were counted. Republicans complained of counting irregularities in two trials. However, as they could not prove this, they ruled in both cases in court.
The day after the election, Trump’s team showed up Georgia filed a lawsuit related to narrow postal voting in Chatham County. According to a poll worker, ballots that arrived too late were mixed with documents that were received on time. Georgia Democrats submitted two affidavits from other election officials that contradicted this.
The lawsuit was finally dismissed for lack of evidence. According to the Washington Post, shuffling the ballots would not have had a decisive impact on the final result.
Dispute over pens in Arizona
In the state Arizona A dispute has arisen over the pens used. There, Trump supporters feared that their ballots would not be counted correctly because the color of the markers was possibly blurred. Authorities said, however, that the quick-drying color of the markers was ideal. Since then, the lawsuit has been dropped.
In Arizona, however, there is another lawsuit pending, also related to counting machines. Trump’s team complained that poorly legible ballots were not handled correctly. According to the Washington Post, a senior state official sees this as another delaying tactic. He does not believe that the lawsuit has a chance of success.
Trump’s team’s legal efforts in the state are also unlikely to be successful. Nevada to have. There, a group close to the president claimed two days after the elections that thousands had cast their votes illegally.
No evidence of this has been presented. Instead, the plaintiffs introduced a single woman who claims her vote by mail was stolen. In fact, the woman was offered to cancel her absentee vote and vote again. However, she did not do this.
Now there is still a dispute over the votes of citizens not currently living in the state. In Nevada, however, some constituencies can vote even if they temporarily reside elsewhere. This rule applies to students and the military, among others.
