By Viviane Faver
On Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected Trump’s request to block the counting of votes with missing dates or names, paving the way for 10,000 votes to be counted in Philadelphia and Allegheny counties.
President-elect Joe Biden leads the state of Keystone by more than 81,000 votes.
According to Judge Christine Donohue, it was concluded that, although the failure to include a handwritten name, address, or date in the voter’s declaration on the back of the outer envelope, while constituting technical violations of the Electoral Code, this does not guarantee the mass deprivation of thousands of voters of Pennsylvania.
The decision confirms the first instance decision that allowed 8,329 absent votes to be counted and sent by post that arrived until 8:00 pm. on election day in Philadelphia County, but there were no handwritten names, addresses, or dates.
The court also overturned a first instance decision that rejected 2,349 ballots that were signed but had undated statements, erasing one of Trump’s previous campaign victories.
The Federal Supreme Court reinstated an earlier decision that allowed the counting of votes. The judges considered that the defects did not justify the ballots’ invalidation as there was no fraud or illegality.
The majority court decision is most sane against President Donald Trump’s continued efforts to challenge election results in several states, including Pennsylvania.
Since election day, there have been only two victories in the courts for Republicans over a minimum number of votes, and more legal losses are likely on the horizon as the campaign continues its efforts.
On Sunday, a federal judge rejected another lawsuit that sought to invalidate millions of Pennsylvania votes in what was essentially the last major case that sought to reject or block enough votes that could rock a critical state in favor of Trump.
Despite all these implications, the Trump campaign insists on blocking Pennsylvania certification
The Trump campaign asked a federal appeals court for a temporary restraining order to suspend Pennsylvania’s certification of the presidential election days after a first instance judge wrote a well-formulated opinion comparing the campaign process to the “Frankenstein monster. . stitched haphazardly “.
The lawyer for the Trump campaign said the campaign “will suffer irreparable damage if the requested limited measure – a short stay of certification (or its legal effect if certification has already occurred) – is not provided already that the relief will not interfere with the nomination of voters for the candidate who obtained the highest number of legal votes before the haven of December 8 .”
According to lawyer Marc A. Scaringi, it would be unscrupulous to allow Pennsylvania to certify voters for Biden and then discover that Trump won the dispute and allow the continuation of certification to ratify the results of an invalid and constitutionally weak electoral process before this case can be heard over its merits.
He added that if Pennsylvania’s vote count – including illegal ballots – is certified and not suspended to allow for a meaningful review, electoral votes will be attributed to Biden. If the Claimants later prove that the election was invalid, unfair, unevenly administered, and included illegal ballots’ tabulation, their victory will be for Pyrrhus.
In his motion, Trump’s campaign attorney cited Bush v’s decision. Gore said that “the right to vote as the legislature has prescribed is fundamental,” writing that “the defendants not only failed to administer the 2020 presidential election in the manner prescribed by the legislature, but the Defendants violated the equal protection of the Claimants and due process rights to favor Biden over Trump. “
“Unless any legal effects of certification are suspended, Claimants can be left without a remedy because Pennsylvania’s electoral votes for president and vice president can be attributed to someone else,” the document said.
