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WILMINGTON (REUTERS) – With the US presidential election between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden too close to call, Trump headed to court on Wednesday (November 4) to try to invalidate votes in Pennsylvania and avoid let Michigan officials count. ballots.
Below is a list of cases that will develop in the next few days and possibly weeks.
Michigan ballot counting fight
The Trump campaign said Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit in Michigan to prevent state officials from counting the ballots.
The campaign said the case in the Michigan Court of Claims seeks to stop the count until there is an election inspector at each absentee counting meeting. The campaign also wanted to review ballots that were opened and counted before an inspector from their campaign was present.
Biden had a very narrow margin in the state with 94 percent of the votes expected, according to Edison Research.
Pennsylvania court battles
Republican officials on Tuesday sued election officials in Montgomery County, which borders Philadelphia, accusing them of illegally counting mail-in ballots early and giving voters who submitted defective ballots a chance to vote again.
In a hearing Wednesday, US District Judge Timothy Savage in Philadelphia appeared skeptical about his allegations and how the integrity of the election could be affected.
In a separate lawsuit, the Trump campaign asked a judge to stop the counting of votes in Pennsylvania, claiming that Republicans had been illegally denied access to observe the process.
Meanwhile, Republicans in Pennsylvania have asked the United States Supreme Court to review a decision from the state’s highest court that allowed election officials to count mail-in ballots with Election Day postmarks that arrived through Friday. .
On Wednesday, the Trump campaign filed a motion to intervene in the case.
Justices of the US Supreme Court said last week that there was not enough time to decide the merits of the case before Election Day, but indicated that they could re-examine it later.
Judge Samuel Alito, along with fellow conservatives Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, said in a written opinion that there is a “high probability” that the Pennsylvania court decision will violate the US Constitution.
Pennsylvania election officials said they will segregate properly postmarked ballots that arrived after Election Day.
With about 88 percent of the votes counted, Trump led Biden in Pennsylvania with 50.9 percent of the votes to 47.8 percent, according to Edison Research.
US Postal Service Litigation
A US judge said Wednesday that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy must answer questions about why the US Postal Service failed to complete a court-ordered sweep for undelivered ballots in about a dozen. states before the Tuesday afternoon deadline.
Federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan is overseeing a lawsuit by Vote Forward, the NAACP, and advocates from the Latino community who have been demanding that the postal service deliver ballots by mail in time to be counted in elections.
Georgia election fight
The Trump campaign on Wednesday night filed a lawsuit in state court in Chatham County, Georgia. Unlike the Pennsylvania and Michigan actions, that lawsuit does not ask a judge to stop the ballot counting. Instead, the campaign said it received information that late-arriving ballots were improperly mixed with valid ballots, and asked a judge to make an order ensuring that late-arriving ballots were separated so they wouldn’t be counted.
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