Overall, the Trump campaign sought to throw away nearly 9,000 absentee ballots because their external envelopes did not contain names, dates or addresses or some combination of those three that voters could fill out.
In five related cases, Philadelphia County Court of Appeals judge James Krumlish said the Trump campaign could not disqualify the 8,329 ballots he alleged. The judge ruled that the ballots should be processed and counted.
In another case, the president’s campaign called for the removal of 59,596 mail-in ballots from the Montgomery County Board of Elections where voters did not fill out their addresses in outside envelopes. Those ballots will be counted, another judge, Richard Haze of the Montgomery County Court of Common Place, ruled Friday.
Haz found out that state law does not require voters to fill in the address sections in envelopes, and the instruction on the ballot did not tell voters that they should fill them out.
“Voters should not be allowed to rely on the polling instructions given by election officials,” Haze wrote.
The Trump campaign told the court it was not accusing voters of vote fraud in the cases – just trying to enforce the rules.
Although the number of ballots was in the thousands, they were not enough for Trump to surpass Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, even if it were all Trump’s votes.
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