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The protracted drama of the vote counting after the US elections continues in increasing tone.
President Trump tweeted multiple times on Thursday, where, among other things, as usual without evidence, he wrote:
“STOP THE FRAUD!”
He didn’t say exactly what he was referring to there, but then Trump wrote that he will go to attorneys in every state who eventually came to Biden.
Trump’s organization is fighting tooth and nail to retract the election with lawsuits and lawyers. Here in Pennsylvania, Republicans see what others see: the longer the mail-in vote count goes on, the closer Joe Biden gets.
If Biden catches up and passes and wins in Pennsylvania, which many observers in the United States believe is likely, he will win every election regardless of the outcome in the other wave master states.
This is how postal votes count in Pennsylvania
At the Philadelphia Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia, the vote counting has been conducted 24 hours a day since Election Night.
The venues, which often host various trade shows and company meetings, are now filled with long lines of tables, drawers with ballots and voting machines.
People in yellow vests, the kind that highway workers usually wear, walk around collecting things and others sit at the tables and take care of the control themselves.
Signs at the various stations indicate loading, sorting, envelope summary, evaluation, smoothing and extraction.
What is extracted are the ballot papers. The machines can take out 12,000 ballots per hour. Which must then be checked. Most machines, but also manually. This means that it takes much longer to get everything ready.
Voting was suspended in Pennsylvania
During Swedish time Thursday afternoon, the bill was suspended for a short period. The premises were almost completely emptied and in the adjoining press center the pulse rose.
The reason was that the Trump campaign took legal action and a judge in Philadelphia ordered the bill to be stopped.
– I can’t go into specifics, says Kevin Feeley, media manager at the expo center.
However, it turned out to be only a brief stop and the bill started again soon.
The problem is said to have been that the observers were not allowed to be close enough to the counters and thus were unable to monitor the processes satisfactorily.
The tense situation sparked protests outside the building on Thursday, where a couple hundred people stood with signs and shouted and danced: yes, it was a protest party. Mainly Bidens supporters with “Count Every Vote” on the posters, but also some Trump supporters.
– The Trump campaign and his political henchmen want to make you believe that there is some kind of circus. But they are the circus, right now they are clowns, says Helen Gym, who is a Democratic member of the Philadelphia City Council and acted as an election observer for the Democrats, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
– There is nothing to worry about here. I want the United States to know: Philadelphia has this under control! says Gym.
Bid appeal: send twelve dollars for attorneys
Biden’s camp is ready to fight back. On Thursday, his staff sent text messages to supporters asking for donations so they could hire lawyers:
“Hello, this is Joe. After two days of voting, it is clear that we are on the right track to victory. We knew it could take a while, it is not over and all votes must be counted. Your ballot is your voice, and we have launched the Biden Fight Fund to make sure your voice is heard. Please can you quickly send more than twelve dollars to the fundraiser right now to support us and Democrats across the country? ”
Actions by Trump’s camp on Thursday spread across the country, and legal action has also been taken in Nevada and Michigan, among other places.
As early as Wednesday, Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani arrived in Philadelphia to propagate to invalidate votes, not least because Republican observers couldn’t ignore the bill long enough, according to Giuliani.
THIS IS THE SITUATION IN PENNSYLVANIA, AND THAT’S WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT
The vote count has been underway since polling stations closed Tuesday night local time. The outcome in the state may determine the entire American election, as Joe Biden on Thursday night has 253 electoral votes, 17 of the 270 needed to win. Pennsylvania is worth 20 voters and therefore would push Biden over the threshold.
Early Pennsylvania numbers gave Trump a solid lead, just over 500,000 votes, but the longer the count went on, the closer Biden got.
By Thursday night, the gap had narrowed to less than 100,000 votes, when nearly 6.4 million votes were counted, which is estimated to correspond to 92 percent of all votes.
By early Friday morning Swedish time, there were just over 20,000 votes left from the leadership. At the time, it was estimated that 95 percent of the votes had been counted.
The reason Biden dominates so clearly at this stage is in part that it is now primarily about mail-order votes that count, accounting for about 77 percent of Democratic voters, and in part because there are more districts in and around the great cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh remain, and the cities are more democratically located than the countryside (where Trump dominates).
TV: watch the robot that helps during the US elections
It is used to check the vote count.
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