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After Trump announced his intention to go to the United States Supreme Court to challenge the vote count, his campaign announced that he had requested a recount in Wisconsin, and lawsuits were filed in Michigan and Pennsylvania, three states critical to winning the vote. presidency.
And American media networks announced that Biden had won in Michigan and Wisconsin, while Pennsylvania had yet to make up his mind.
Late on Wednesday night, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in a crucial fourth state, Georgia, after the president’s margin of progress fell to less than a percentage point.
Trump’s behavior raises fears that the outcome will eventually be resolved, as it did in 2000, by a Supreme Court ruling specifying how states will be counted.
The complaints filed by the Trump campaign point to a specific aspect of the 2020 elections, related to millions of voters who cast their votes by mail due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
The pandemic forced states to encourage voting by mail and to change the rules regarding the counting, verification and scheduling of votes.
Among these amendments is the extension of the periods to receive ballots, due to the tremendous pressure on the United States Postal Service, which requires more time for the vote counting process.
Republicans say some of those amendments were passed or applied incorrectly and in ways that favor Democrats.
In Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign announced that it would be joining a complaint previously filed by Republicans about extending the deadline for the state to receive postal ballots.
And if their effort is successful, they could invalidate the tens of thousands of cards that arrived after November 3.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court legally ruled to extend the deadline, but last week the US Supreme Court refused to intervene in the matter.
But the Supreme Court kept the door open to appeal after the elections.
The Trump campaign also said it was in the process of filing a complaint to suspend the counting of votes in Pennsylvania, saying that Democrats prevented their delegates from monitoring it. In Philadelphia, the vote count was broadcast live.
They also challenged the amendments related to the verification of the identity of the voter, which were introduced to adapt to the anti-epidemic measures, considering that they violated the electoral law.
In Michigan, Trump campaign officials filed a complaint demanding that vote counting be stopped, saying they had not had “serious access.”
The lawsuit in Georgia wants counties to “examine all late-arrival ballots, all legal ballots” that arrived before the 7 pm deadline on Election Day, said Trump’s deputy campaign manager Justin Clark.
