What complaints did Donald Trump’s team bring to court about the election?

United States Attorney General William Barr on Monday gave federal prosecutors general permission to investigate possible voting irregularities.

Trump’s enthusiastic defender, Mr. Barr, stressed that his letter to US federal prosecutors did not mean that the Justice Department already had concrete evidence of voter fraud.

However, it freed federal prosecutors from the old restrictions on conducting such investigations.

Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, where Biden’s victory is projected, the Trump campaign was launched on November 4, claiming that election observers did not have adequate access.

Observers are people who monitor the vote count to ensure the transparency of the election. Most states allow election observation for people who registered before Election Day.

The restrictions on observers and, in part, the coronavirus were introduced before this year’s election. Their number has been limited and to avoid intimidation, writes the BBC.

In Philadelphia, in the room where the votes were counted, observers were shown a distance of 20 feet (6 meters) from those who counted the votes. However, on November 5, the court resolved to reduce the distance to 6 feet (1.8 meters) for observers in accordance with the COVID-19 protocol.

On the same day, the Trump campaign accused election officials of failing to comply with a court order and a lawsuit was filed demanding that the counting of votes be stopped in Philadelphia. The court rejected such claim.

Presidential attorney Rudy Giuliani said: “Even when a court order was received allowing Republican inspectors to come six feet closer, they dragged the counters six feet more.”

Election officials say they acted correctly and appealed to the state Supreme Court.

The legal dispute in Pennsylvania also concerns the state’s decision to count ballots that were mailed on Election Day and arrived no later than three days later.

On Nov. 6, Republicans appealed the decision, demanding that all ballots that arrive in the mail after Election Day be disqualified.

It is also discussed how long voters should be given the opportunity to prove their identity if they were not included on the ballot or were not clearly indicated.

Voters can now do so until Nov. 12, but Trump’s Nov. 5 campaign appealed to the court to shorten that deadline to three days.

On November 9, the Trump campaign called for the suspension of the approval of the vote because supposedly the votes cast live in favor of Trump were analyzed more carefully than those that arrived by mail.

The Pennsylvania Attorney General said such a complaint is unfounded, experts say the case will not be won, writes the BBC.

Wisconsin

The presidential campaign said it would require a vote recount in Wisconsin for “election day anomalies.” It is true that this will not require a court order.

Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia University law school, told the BBC that there was also a recalculation in Wisconsin in 2016, but the results changed to “about a hundred votes.”

Michigan

In 2016, Michigan was the state where Trump won by the smallest margin, 10,700 votes. Biden is projected to win in the state this year.

On November 4, the Trump campaign appealed to the court to suspend the counting of votes: it assured that the observers did not have adequate access. The court rejected the following claim: arguing that there was insufficient evidence that procedures had not been followed.

Another lawsuit was filed on November 9 to block the approval of votes in Wayne County: Trump’s campaign was based on complaints from observers.

Nevada

The Nevada Republican Party wrote on Twitter that thousands of people had been identified as violating the law by voting even after leaving the state.

The case, filed Nov. 5, concerned “insufficiently rigorous procedures for validating postal ballots,” with more than 3,000 people unable to vote in Nevada casting their votes.

The presidential team of attorneys compiled a list of people who declared they moved from Nevada but voted in the state. However, as Politifact points out, the list alone does not prove a violation of the law.

The law states that people who left the state 30 days before the election can still vote in Nevada. Students and soldiers who live elsewhere can vote, too.

The case is based on Clark County voters, but their registrar has stated that no inappropriate but processed ballots are known.

On November 5, Republicans tried to stop the use of signature verification machines, but the claim was rejected by a federal court.

Georgia

In Chatham County, Georgia, on November 4, a court was asked to temporarily suspend the counting of votes, citing problems with the processing of votes.

Georgia Republican President David Shafer wrote on Twitter that party watchers had seen the woman “add more than 50 ballots to a pile of countless advance ballots.”

On November 5, the court rejected the complaint: it assured that there was no evidence of such a violation, writes the BBC.

Arizona

The Trump campaign went to court on November 7, claiming that some legal votes had been rejected.

The case cites observers and two voters who claim to have problems with voting machines.

The case is currently under investigation, but Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said it was a “straw robbery.”