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The Pennsylvania Court of Appeals accepted a complaint from the Trump campaign prohibiting the counting of mail-in ballots from voters who did not present their identification on time.
Under Pennsylvania law, all registered voters to vote by mail must present identification to compare with the state’s voter registry by November 9. However, just before the election, Secretary General Kathy Boockvar allowed the deadline to postpone identification until Nov. 12, citing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling allowing mail-in ballots to be counted. late, as long as they are shipped before November 3 and arrive before November 6.
However, after reviewing the complaint by the attorneys representing President Donald Trump, the President of the Pennsylvania Court of Appeals, Mary Hannah Leavitt, stated on November 12 that Boockvar had no authority to extend the term. With this ruling, Pennsylvania counties will not have a small number of mail-in ballots that they cannot prove to family members before the September 11 deadline.
Pennsylvania officials did not respond to comments on whether or not they intend to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
US President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on November 4. Image: AFP.
Lawyers for President Trump’s campaign hailed this as a major victory. “The court ruling supports our efforts to demonstrate the Secretary General of State’s irresponsibility regarding the timing and timing of the elections,” said Matt Morgan, Trump’s top campaign attorney. to know.
The lawsuit arbitrated by Chief Justice Leavitt is just a relatively small legal dispute in the large-scale “war” that the Trump campaign is waging in numerous state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, with the goal of challenging the validity of the laws. Elections result in this key state of the battlefield.
Of the mail-in ballots rejected by the Nov. 12 ruling, none of the votes counted toward the state’s total number of votes, while that night, President-elect Biden was ahead of the owner. White about 54,000 votes.
It is not immediately clear how many mail ballots would be withdrawn in Pennsylvania due to the ruling. However, the number is said to be negligible compared to the difference in votes that Biden has in Pennsylvania.
In Philadelphia, the state’s largest county, election officials said only about 2,100 mail-in ballots were at risk of disqualification because voters did not provide or incorrectly fill in identifying information with their voter registration applications. mine. Typically, voters will provide a driver’s license number to verify their identity when voting by mail.
Morgan says no lawsuit can challenge enough votes to reverse the results in Trump’s favor, but the campaign hopes that with some favorable rulings they can close out Biden’s lead. by 0.5 percentage point, triggering the Pennsylvania law recount. As of the night of November 12, Biden leads nearly 0.8 percentage points.
President Trump declared on November 5 that there is “a lot of evidence” of fraud in the electoral process, but aside from the Pennsylvania court ruling, his campaign so far has not provided any valid evidence. to persuade federal judges in the remaining courts.
Many of the lawsuits they filed in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada failed, when the judge ruled that Trump’s attorneys failed to present credible evidence.
Gloss (According to the Philadelphia Inquirer)
