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Donald Trump (74) continues to doubt the US electoral process. Among other things, he claims that Biden’s illegal votes “were found everywhere” and calls for the counting to be stopped or counted again.
To change course, Trump does two things:
1. Send your lawyers
Donald Trump wants to challenge election results in at least five states, in different ways.
In Pennsylvania Due to the delay in the United States mail, absentee votes should still be valid, arriving on Friday afternoon. Trump and the Republicans will return to court. The United States Supreme Court had approved the regulations before the elections. However, three conservatives among the nine justices were open to picking up on the issue again after the election.
In Michigan you want to suspend the count until your observers can approach the evaluating employees. In Wisconsin Trump demands a recount in the face of a close race. As of Thursday, Joe Biden won in both states. Also in Nevada Trump’s team wants to file a lawsuit for alleged election fraud.
In Georgia Trump’s campaign files, among other things, a lawsuit in Chatham County. With the claim: There were ballots that arrived after the 7pm deadline possibly mixed with eligible ballots and were not counted correctly.
The Biden field is prepared for long and costly disputes. It is unclear if it will go as far as it did in 2000, when the Supreme Court finally halted the counting of votes and thus gave George Bush the decisive and to this day controversial victory in Florida by just 537 votes.
2. Incite your fans
Even before the election, Trump cast doubt on the electoral process and urged his voters to “check that all was well in front of the electoral offices.” Throughout Election Day, he continued to cheer on his fans. Successfully: In Arizona on Wednesday night, about 150 Trump fans, some of them armed, gathered in front of an election office.
Similar incidents have occurred in other countries. “Stop the count!” Trump fans loudly demanded. The irony of the story: The Democratic challenger was leading almost everywhere at the time, so only Joe Biden could have told.
Goofy Trump fans are dangerous. Free and fair elections are vital to a democracy. And resistance to the fair electoral process can easily turn into resistance to democracy.
That’s the part of Trump’s accusations
For an alleged electoral fraud there is without evidence. The states are slow, but apparently they have been meticulously prepared technically. Biggest mishap so far: Empty ink cartridges in some voting machine printers.
However, the accusation that the US Post Office cannot or does not want to track 300,000 postal votes – the head of the US Post Office, USPS, is a friend of Trump, weighs heavily.
There is a counting stop no legal basis. The constitution simply says that the count must be before Dec. 8, that’s the deadline for the total of 538 electorates to vote for Trump or Biden a few days later in the respective state capitals.
