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Now the risk increases that the electoral drama will carry over to the US courts, as it did after the scandal-filled elections of 2000, which were finally decided in the Supreme Court.
President Trump’s campaign is on the offensive with hundreds of Republican lawyers at the forefront. In four of the states that have yet to be decided, or were decided late, legal battles are already in full swing.
At the same time, groups intervene of Trump supporters to stop mail ballot counting in some places. In Detroit, Michigan, hundreds of protesters wearing red Trump caps passed police outside a polling station on Wednesday. They yelled “stop the bill” but were not violent.
Trump supporters in Detroit are demonstrating in front of the electoral college.
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Around the same time, other supporters of the president demanded that vote counting continue in Phoenix, Arizona, where Trump was down.
Many of the lawsuits now being filed seem almost trivial, as in Georgia, where the election is being challenged because of 53 ballots that a Republican election observer claims were passed for the wrong reasons.
Another case, in Michigan, is that votes cast in special mailboxes should not be counted, as there were no guards at the boxes throughout the day.
Hot opreciserade wins On election night, that he “should go to the Supreme Court,” there really is no reason for that. An American president cannot do that.
But the threat remains that the country’s top judge will once again decide a presidential election. It’s Pennsylvania, where pre-election Republicans questioned the provision that mail-in votes received no more than three days after the election must be counted as long as they are postmarked on Election Day.
Demonstrators marched yesterday from the New York Public Library to Washington Square Park with the message “All votes count, all votes count.”
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The Supreme Court ruled last week that this should apply, but three conservative justices out of nine on HD had a different opinion. They are not ruling out reopening the case, which in that case could mean that tens of thousands of votes cannot be counted.
If the question comes back to HD, there is now another conservative judge who did not participate in the first decision, namely Amy Coney Barrett, who was nominated by Trump earlier this fall.
Along with all the lawsuits, Trump will demand a vote recount in Wisconsin, where Biden was declared the winner on Wednesday by a margin of about 20,000 votes or 0.6 percent of the 3.3 million counted in the state.
He will likely do the same in Nevada, for example, if Biden won there.
Republicans have the legal right to require a recalculation in Wisconsin because the margin between the candidates was less than one percentage point. But the chances that the result will change are very small.
Vote in Beloit, Wisconsin, on Tuesday.
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After the 2016 election, a recalculation was performed in the state at the request of Green Party candidate Jill Stein. That gave Trump another 131 votes at the time, far from the 20,000 he needs now.
Experts in electoral law He highly doubts that the many court cases now awaiting resolution will have a marginal impact on the final outcome of the elections.
– I think most lawsuits are slow chances with little chance of success, law professor Franita Tolson tells CNN.
– What I suspect is instead that the legal tours are an attempt to change the topic of conversation.
There are many indications that he is right. In fact, Trump is consistent in questioning the aftermath of the elections, claiming for months that they will be misled.
Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien with Donald Trump in Arlington, Virginia.
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If and when Biden stands as a winner, a large chunk of Trump’s 68 million voters will not see him as legally elected. Therefore, signs that all has not gone well, both the actual minor incidents and the mere fabrications, are spreading through various channels. One of them is lawyers, another is social networks.
A third is the president himself, his own advisers and campaign leaders.
Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, reiterated the president’s claim on Thursday that cheating had characterized the Pennsylvania election and warned that “magic boxes” with mail-in votes appeared out of nowhere.
– We must be sure that the Democrats and Joe Biden do not steal the election.
In Michigan, the message seems have taken the screw. Here’s what Republican volunteer Penny Crider, one of those protesting the vote count in Detroit, told Bloomberg News:
– People there open boxes with ballots, take them out and have pencils in hand, they do things.
