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Trump's Longshot Election Lawsuits: Where Do Things Stand? by Ibadansun1: 1:29am On Nov 11, 2020
Since election day, Donald Trump and other Republicans have filed a smattering of lawsuits in battleground states that have provided cover for Trump and other Republicans to say that the election still remains unresolved.

Legal experts have noted these suits are meritless, and even if they were successful, would not be enough to overturn the election results. Indeed, judges in several of these lawsuits have already dismissed them, noting the Trump campaign has failed to offer evidence to substantiate allegations of fraud.

Here’s where some of the key lawsuits stand:

Pennsylvania
One of the main rallying cries for Trump and his supporters has been that they were not allowed to observe vote counting in Philadelphia, the overwhelmingly Democratic city that helped Biden carry Pennsylvania.

That’s not true. The Trump campaign did secure a court order to allow observers to get closer to the vote counting process, but there’s no evidence observers were excluded and Philadelphia had a 24/7 livestream of its counting. When the campaign went to federal court arguing that its observers didn’t have access to vote counting, a campaign lawyer was forced to admit there was a “non-zero” number of campaign observers watching the vote count.

Pennsylvania Republicans and the Trump campaign are also still pushing the US supreme court to reject mail-in ballots that were postmarked by election day and arrived at election offices by 6 November. Pennsylvania law requires ballots to arrive by the close of polls on election night, but the Pennsylvania supreme court, where Democrats have a majority, pointed to mail delays and the pandemic to justify the extension. Several other states in the US allow ballots to be counted if they arrive after election day but are postmarked before.

Republicans have been trying to get these ballots rejected since early September, when the Pennsylvania supreme court extended the receipt deadline by three days. The number of late-arriving ballots is thought to be relatively small, so even if the supreme court were to ultimately reject them, it would not be enough to overturn Biden’s lead of nearly 45,000 votes in the state.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/10/donald-trump-longshot-election-lawsuits

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Re: Trump's Longshot Election Lawsuits: Where Do Things Stand? by TossTos: 1:35am On Nov 11, 2020
Another One !
Still Republicans dont believe yet that Democrats WON the election
Another one is coming shortly !

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Re: Trump's Longshot Election Lawsuits: Where Do Things Stand? by Golan007: 3:37am On Nov 11, 2020
70.
grin
Re: Trump's Longshot Election Lawsuits: Where Do Things Stand? by OgaTheTop2: 4:08am On Nov 11, 2020
The Trumpeters won't understand this. Their brains are so clogged up with misinformation. They are sore losers. He pain so much they suffer from post election defeat traumacheesy

Losers.. cheesy

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