Elections in the United States: What are Trump’s legal challenges?

Democratic candidate Joe Biden has been declared president-elect, but President Donald Trump is still planning a legal challenge with results in several key states.

His attorney, Rudy Giuliani, told Fox News that it would be wrong if Trump announced concessions because: “There is strong evidence that this is an election being held in at least three or four states, and maybe 10 states, stolen.” .

The Trump campaign has yet to provide “hard evidence” of this, but says it plans to file lawsuits in several key states on Monday.

This is what we know so far.

Giuliani said that more lawsuits will be started due to lack of access for electoral supporters in the state.

Voting watchers are those who observe the vote count, in order to ensure transparency. They are allowed to be present in most states as long as they are registered before Election Day.

In some regions this year, restrictions were put in place before Election Day, in part due to the corona virus. Storage limits are also set to prevent voters from feeling threatened.

The twenty-foot circumference was placed in Philadelphia’s vote-counting center, but this was contested, and Thursday’s court ruling said it should be lowered to about six feet, provided that poll watchers comply to comply with regulations. Covid-19.

The Trump campaign filed a federal lawsuit accusing election officials of the judge’s misconduct.

“Even with a court order to allow Republican inspectors within 2 meters, they moved people who were counting votes to more than 2 meters,” Giuliani said.

But election officials insisted they were behaving correctly.

On November 5, Pennsylvania Foreign Minister Kathy Boockvar said: “All political candidates and parties can have an authorized representative in the room who oversees this vote count. Even Philadelphia broadcast the vote count live, so you can literally follow your vote count. ”

The legal challenge in Pennsylvania also centered on the state’s decision to count postmarked ballots on Election Day, but not until three days later. Republicans seek to appeal.

Matthew Weil, director of the election project at the Center for Bipartisan Policy Studies, said he was more concerned about the dispute because the nation’s highest court, the United States Court of Justice, was stalled. choice. This was before Judge Amy Coney Barrett, appointed by President Trump, was confirmed.

“I think there is a risk of some votes [bưu điện] expelled on election day and not received until Friday could be eliminated, ”he said.

But Weil added: “I suppose there won’t be such a large number of votes that can be discarded,” so the votes of the two sides would have to be “very, very close for that to matter.” important “.

Trump won the state in 2016 with the lowest margin, just over 10,700 votes, and Biden is predicted to be the winner here in 2020.

On November 4, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit to prevent the recount of lack of access claims to track the process.

A judge dismissed the case, saying there was insufficient evidence that supervisory procedures were not being followed.

The president’s campaign board said it would require a recount in Wisconsin “based on observed anomalies” on Election Day, although this would not require a lawsuit.

It is not clear when the recount will take place, as these recounts are not normally done until officials have counted all the ballots.

The state deadline for this part of the process is 11/17.

Columbia Law University professor Richard Briffault said there was also a recount in Wisconsin in 2016, and that “it changed by about a hundred votes.”

Republican Party in the state of Nevada cheep “Thousands of people have been identified as apparently violating the law by voting after they moved from Nevada.”

The president’s legal team made a list of people who they said had moved out of state but voted.

People who left the state within 30 days of the election can still vote in Nevada. Nevada students, who are studying elsewhere, can also vote.

The lawsuit targeted Clark County voters, but the county elections official said, “We are not aware of any inappropriate ballots being processed.”

In another lawsuit, a federal judge blocked efforts by Republicans to prevent the use of a signature verifier, dismissing allegations that it was unable to accurately verify the signature.

A lawsuit has been filed in Chatham County, Georgia to suspend vote counting, alleging problems with ballot processing.

Georgia Republican President David Shafer tweeted that party observers had seen a woman “mix more than 50 votes in the unregistered absentee vote stack.”

On November 5, a judge dismissed the case, saying there was “no evidence” of an inadequate vote count.

Trump’s election campaign filed a lawsuit in Arizona on Saturday, alleging that several legitimate votes had been rejected.

The lawsuit cites claims by some people who track the vote count and two voters say they have had problems with the voting machine.

The lawsuit is under review, but the Arizona foreign minister said it was just “a desperate attempt.”

On Wednesday morning, Trump announced voter fraud, without providing evidence, and said, “We are going to the United States Supreme Court.”

If election results are contested, legal groups contesting the result must take the matter to state court first.

State judges will reject or support the challenge and order a recount.

The Supreme Court may then be asked to consider it.

“There is no standard process for bringing electoral disputes to the Supreme Court. It is very unusual and will have to do with very,” said Briffault law professor at Columbia University School of Law. important.”

To date, the 2000 elections are the only ones decided by the United States Supreme Court.

In 2020, candidate Al Gore lost the Florida election with 537 votes, out of nearly 6 million votes in the state.