Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes, a federal judge ruled on Saturday, giving President Donald Trump’s campaign another blow in his effort. for invalidating the elections.
Middle U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, rejected President Donald Trump’s campaign injunction request, dashing the incumbent’s hopes of somehow overturning the results of the election. presidential contest.
Trump had argued that the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection guarantee under the law was violated when Pennsylvania counties took different approaches to notifying voters before the election of technical problems with mailed ballots. .
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Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and the seven majority Biden counties the campaign sued had argued that Trump had raised similar claims and lost.
Brann was told that the remedy the Trump campaign was seeking, to cast millions of votes for alleged isolated problems, was too extreme, particularly after most of them had been counted.
“There is no justification at any level for the radical disenfranchisement they seek,” Boockvar’s attorneys wrote in a brief filed Thursday.
The state’s 20 electoral votes alone would not have been enough to give Trump a second term. Counties must certify their results to Boockvar by Monday, after which she will do her own certification.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf will notify voters of the winning candidate that they must report to vote on Capitol Hill on December 14.
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