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Pennsylvania judges rejected several complaints and appeals from Donald Trump’s campaign team demanding the invalidation of thousands of votes in Philadelphia, an area where Joe Biden won decisively and with which, like other urban areas, he won. elections in this state to a significant difference, reports CNN.
In all, Donald Trump’s campaign team tried to get rid of around 9,000 ballots of voters who cast their ballots early; these ballots had no name, date, or address, or a combination of these. , in one of the envelopes in which they were sealed.
In five of those complaints, Philadelphia Judge James Crumlish rejected the request to invalidate 8,329 ballots that Trump’s team claimed were inappropriate.
In another case, in Montgomery County, the Trump campaign tried to block the counting of 592 votes by mail because they did not have the address written on the outer envelope. Judge Richard Haaz ruled that they were valid and would be counted.
Haaz says state law does not require voters to write their address on envelopes, and instructions issued by electoral authorities also do not require that this information be completed on the outer envelope.
These efforts would have been in vain for Donald Trump, who lost the state of Pennsylvania by an already insurmountable difference: more than 60,000 votes.
The epic of the US presidential election is about to be completed
The incumbent president continues to claim, without proof, that the election was rigged and refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory. However, he addressed the Americans for the first time after losing the election, and although he did not explain it in any way, Trump seemed to be aware that his term was coming to an end.
Several US officials involved in managing the electoral process said in a joint statement Thursday, more than a week after the presidential elections, that “no evidence was found” that there were lost or modified ballots and voting systems. pirate vote.
The last two states in which the results of the November 3 elections had not yet been announced, Georgia and North Carolina, were attributed this Friday to Joe Biden and Donald Trump by the US media, confirming the candidate’s victory. Democrat, credited with 306 voters. compared to 232 for his Republican rival.
Publisher: Adrian Dumitru
