The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit last week challenging Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar’s decision to extend the deadline for voters to provide proof of identification if it was originally missing from their mail-in ballot (the deadline was extended from Nov. 9 to Nov. 12).

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court had previously ordered any ballots fixed during the extended deadline to be segregated as the case played out in court.


In a ruling Thursday, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt said Boockvar “lacked statutory authority” to change the deadline, and said election officials are “enjoined from counting any ballots” that were cured during the extended deadline.

Since the ballots had already been segregated, they were not included in the state’s vote count and thus not counting them will not affect Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.

It is unclear how many ballots will be affected by the ruling, but the Philadelphia Inquirer projects the number is likely to be “small,” noting that Philadelphia County, the largest county in the state, only flagged 2,100 ballots that had identification issues.


The Pennsylvania Department of State declined to comment on the ruling.

BIG NUMBER
53,580. That’s the number of votes by which Biden leads President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, as of Thursday afternoon. That lead will not be affected by the ballots at issue in Thursday’s ruling.

KEY BACKGROUND
The Pennsylvania lawsuit is one of a large number of post-election lawsuits from the GOP and Trump campaign that challenge mail-in ballots and voting rules in battleground states, which have predominantly focused on Pennsylvania but also included lawsuits in Michigan, Arizona and Georgia. Though the Trump campaign did prevail in the proof of identification lawsuit, their legal challenges have more broadly been dismissed by legal experts as being largely meritless attempts to sow distrust in the election results, which experts believe have little chance of actually succeeding in court. “They all seem to have no merit whatsoever,” Joshua Douglas, an election law professor at the University of Kentucky, told the Guardian about Trump’s lawsuits Friday. “I think the goal is to sow discord and distrust and undermine the people and the integrity of the election.”

WHAT TO WATCH FOR
There are still a number of outstanding lawsuits that have been brought by the Trump campaign and GOP in Pennsylvania, including a wide-ranging Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to invalidate the state’s election that legal experts say has “little chance of succeeding.” The U.S. Supreme Court could also still potentially invalidate Pennsylvania’s extended mail-in voting deadline, which allowed mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be accepted as long as they were delivered by Friday, Nov. 6. That ruling would only affect approximately 10,000 ballots, elections officials have said — which are being segregated and are not included in the current vote count — and thus invalidating them would not affect Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.

FURTHER READING
Pa. appellate court sides with Trump in fight over ID deadlines for voters, tossing small number of ballots (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Court even in USA

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Gjrich:

The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit last week challenging Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar’s decision to extend the deadline for voters to provide proof of identification if it was originally missing from their mail-in ballot (the deadline was extended from Nov. 9 to Nov. 12).

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court had previously ordered any ballots fixed during the extended deadline to be segregated as the case played out in court.


In a ruling Thursday, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt said Boockvar “lacked statutory authority” to change the deadline, and said election officials are “enjoined from counting any ballots” that were cured during the extended deadline.

Since the ballots had already been segregated, they were not included in the state’s vote count and thus not counting them will not affect Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.

It is unclear how many ballots will be affected by the ruling, but the Philadelphia Inquirer projects the number is likely to be “small,” noting that Philadelphia County, the largest county in the state, only flagged 2,100 ballots that had identification issues.


The Pennsylvania Department of State declined to comment on the ruling.

BIG NUMBER
53,580. That’s the number of votes by which Biden leads President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, as of Thursday afternoon. That lead will not be affected by the ballots at issue in Thursday’s ruling.

KEY BACKGROUND
The Pennsylvania lawsuit is one of a large number of post-election lawsuits from the GOP and Trump campaign that challenge mail-in ballots and voting rules in battleground states, which have predominantly focused on Pennsylvania but also included lawsuits in Michigan, Arizona and Georgia. Though the Trump campaign did prevail in the proof of identification lawsuit, their legal challenges have more broadly been dismissed by legal experts as being largely meritless attempts to sow distrust in the election results, which experts believe have little chance of actually succeeding in court. “They all seem to have no merit whatsoever,” Joshua Douglas, an election law professor at the University of Kentucky, told the Guardian about Trump’s lawsuits Friday. “I think the goal is to sow discord and distrust and undermine the people and the integrity of the election.”

WHAT TO WATCH FOR
There are still a number of outstanding lawsuits that have been brought by the Trump campaign and GOP in Pennsylvania, including a wide-ranging Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to invalidate the state’s election that legal experts say has “little chance of succeeding.” The U.S. Supreme Court could also still potentially invalidate Pennsylvania’s extended mail-in voting deadline, which allowed mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be accepted as long as they were delivered by Friday, Nov. 6. That ruling would only affect approximately 10,000 ballots, elections officials have said — which are being segregated and are not included in the current vote count — and thus invalidating them would not affect Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.

FURTHER READING
Pa. appellate court sides with Trump in fight over ID deadlines for voters, tossing small number of ballots (Philadelphia Inquirer)

And this news is just shit
The ballots mean nothing to overturn Penn.
And Porter wright the lawfirm representing trump in Penn. just bailed
That's making two power weight law firms within 48 hours

If you care for facts, in the past 48 hrs trumps legal strategy have been crumbling fast like dominos

Trump Campaign Lawyer Admits to Judge: Our Search for Evidence of Fraud Produced Obvious Lies and ‘Spam’

A Trump campaign attorney conceded in court on Thursday morning that he tried to enter hundreds of dodgy form-filed affidavits into evidence, even though their own investigation found that a subset of the sworn statements that they received were filled with lies and “spam.”

“This is concerning,” Judge Daniel Kiley, from Arizona’s Maricopa County, remarked with some understatement.

“How is that a reliable process of gathering evidence?” the judge asked, later blocking admission of the so-called evidence.

Put on the spot by the judge was the Trump campaign’s lawyer Kory Langhofer, who explained the automated process that reflected their post-election evidence hunt. It included an online form whose reliability Langhofer claimed was boosted by the fact that it included a CAPTCHA, which weeded out the bots. The attorneys then visited the complainants’ homes. The Trump campaign said it excluded the submissions of those who swore to lies, but they included the ones they could not prove were lying into evidence.

Judge Kiley replied that this did not show the remaining affidavits are trustworthy.

“That just shows you cannot disprove what’s asserted,” Kiley noted.

The admission came toward the beginning of a daylong evidentiary hearing in a case that began as the so-called “Sharpiegate” lawsuit. The hearing is expected to last for five hours.

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/trump-campaign-lawyer-admits-to-judge-our-search-for-evidence-of-fraud-produced-obvious-lies-and-spam/

First Law firm Bails!

Snell & Wilmer withdraws from election lawsuit as Trump contests Arizona results

The largest law firm representing the Trump campaign or its allies in post-election litigation challenging votes in key states has withdrawn from an election lawsuit in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Associate Presiding Civil Judge Daniel Kiley on Tuesday granted Snell & Wilmer’s request to withdraw as counsel of record for the Republican National Committee. The RNC had teamed-up with the Trump campaign and the Arizona Republican Party in the case, which alleges that Maricopa County incorrectly rejected some votes cast on Election Day.

https://www.reuters.com/article/snell-maricopa-idUSL1N2HY005