Trump Pennsylvania election lawsuit alleges voter fraud in 2 counties

• Trump campaign’s new major lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleges voter fraud potentially occurred in only two counties.
• Both, Fayette County and Lucerne County voted for President Donald Trump.
• Local lawsuits have been cited by the lawsuit to strengthen its claims report that local officials were addressing irregularities before election day.
• The lawsuit also provides no basis for such widespread voter fraud that is being repeatedly spread by Trump without any evidence.
• Trump and other Republicans have filed more than a dozen lawsuits against the 2020 election. His main effort is in Pennsylvania, which gave President-elect Joe Biden enough voter votes to win the race.
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On Monday, Trump filed a new, 85-page lawsuit in the campaign, asking a federal judge to block the Secretary of State from Pennsylvania from certifying the results of the presidential election.

If this succeeds, President-elect Joe Biden could be barred from officially receiving the state’s 20 election votes, which would reduce his total vote, but is unlikely to backfire.

The lawsuit alleges irregularities in the way votes are counted, citing anonymous poll observers and election observers. It also claims that Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Booker gave improper guidance to election officials to process the mail-in ballot.

But the filing cites only two specific instances of potential voter fraud, as Adam Klassfeld reports for Law and Crime.

Both examples are in the counties that voted heavily for Trump.

If the vote is cast in those areas, instead of closing the 1,000,000-vote counting gap between them and Biden, it could increase the damage to the state.

And in the news article taken in the news in the lawsuit itself, it is stated that the authorities paid attention to all the issues for voter fraud before the election day. And the lawsuit for widespread fraud by voters repeatedly accused by Trump without support provides no evidence.

• In Fayette County, the lawsuit says, some voters received two ballots in the mail, and some received ballots that were already filled. Lawyers representing the Trump campaign argue that both situations could lead to voter fraud.

  He cites two local news articles from October to support the claims. An article about the duplicate ballot, reports that the county election board has already resolved the issue. Detailed reports of ballot pre-filling in the county say election officials were also already considering the issue.

  President Donald Trump won about 67% of the vote in Fayette County, according to DDHQ data published by Insider.
• In Lucerne County, the lawsuit points out that a temporary seasonal election worker threw out nine military ballots, which were in marked envelopes. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post.

  To sue, the lawsuit cites a local news article from September. The very article states that the incident is under investigation and the county has changed its rules to prevent similar issues in the future.

  About 57% of voters in the county voted for Trump, according to DDHQ data published by Insider.

The lawsuit does not cite Luzerne County or Fayette County as defendants, but runs after election boards for the counties of Allegheny, Center, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Northampton and Philadelphia – all on the basis of anonymous poll observers and election observers. . According to DDHQ data, voters in all those counties voted for Biden against Trump.

While arguing that voter fraud is a significant risk overall in the state of Pennsylvania, prosecutors have reported only three cases across the state over a 21-year period. According to election experts, voter fraud is extremely rare. A 2020 analysis by the Right Heritage Foundation found that out of every 10 million votes cast, only six are convicted of any type of crime.

Columbia Law School professor Richard Briftol, who studied election litigation, told Insider that litigation arguments about problems with how the mail-in ballot was processed “made no sense.”

“In effect, they say the mailed ballots are unconstitutional, which is ridiculous,” Briffolt said. “In any case, any challenges to the PA’s mailed ballot proceedings, which were on the books before election day (and were not imposed by the court) could be and therefore should be brought before the election, and therefore thrown out for that reason.” Should be alone. “

The new Pennsylvania lawsuit is one of more than a dozen lawsuits across the country by the Trump campaign and W Republicans seeking to undermine the 2020 election results. Pennsylvania in particular is important, as its 20-vote college-led vote ensured Biden’s victory.

But even if Biden’s campaign ballots in Pennsylvania are not verified because of the lawsuit, Trump will have to win Arizona, Georgia and Alaska to secure the required 270 ballots. The incumbent is projected to win only Alaska and its three electorate votes; Biden is still leading the call in the other two states.

The Trump campaign also wants to join the Supreme Court case over the validity of mail-in ballots arriving at ballot processing centers after election day. In all cases involving Trump and other Republicans, the state is unlikely to have enough ballots to cover Biden’s 45,000,000-vote gap.