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A Pennsylvania court on Thursday awarded US President Donald Trump’s campaign a small victory in one of multiple lawsuits filed to reverse the election result, which Democrat Joe Biden won.
The decision affects an indeterminate number of votes, although, according to state officials, they are far fewer than the more than 54,000 that separate Biden and Trump in the vote.
Pennsylvania state law allowed six days after the election (that is, until November 9) for citizens who submitted their votes by mail without an identification document to present a valid one.
Pennsylvania’s secretary of state, the top electoral authority, Democrat Kathy Boockvar, extended that deadline three days before the election to Nov. 12, a decision that the Trump campaign challenged in court.
The court’s decision on Thursday, which had previously ordered that votes validated between November 10 and 12 be kept separate, now backs Trump and orders the state not to include them in the final count.
The judge who signed the order, Mary Hannah Leavitt, said Boockvar “had no legal authority” to decide on the extension.
Although they have not indicated how many votes are at stake, local officials said the various actions Trump has brought will not affect Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania projected by the ‘media’.
Biden currently represents 49.77% of the vote, compared to 48.96% for Trump.
The Pennsylvania screening on Saturday morning gave Biden the delegates needed to declare himself the winner of the election, a victory Trump has yet to acknowledge, alleging election fraud but not providing evidence.
To beat Biden, who already has 290 delegates, Trump would have to prove the fraud in court and reverse the results, not just in one, but in several key states, something analysts consider extremely unlikely.
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