Trump lawyers drop PA claim about unwatched vote counting

Ahead of a Tuesday hearing in the case, Trump’s campaign dropped the allegation that hundreds of thousands of mail-in and absentee ballots — 682,479, to be precise — were illegally processed without its representatives watching.

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A key theme of Trump and his supporters has been their claim that Philadelphia — a Democratic bastion where Trump lost badly — had not allowed Trump's campaign representatives to watch mail-in and absentee ballots processed and tabulated.

However, Republican lawyers have acknowledged in a separate federal court proceeding that they had certified observers watching mail-in ballots being processed in Philadelphia. Gov. Tom Wolf's administration has said that ballot watchers from all parties had observers throughout the process and that “any insinuation otherwise is a lie.”

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Re: Trump lawyers drop PA claim about unwatched vote counting

Nov 16, 2020, 11:40 AM

You forgot to read your own article, Keowee.

What the Post and Politico reports get right, however, is that the crux of the amended complaint removed claims regarding those allegations. The original complaint included a count of "Invalid Enactment of Regulations Affecting Observation and Monitoring of the Election," referencing the alleged lack of adequate observation in claiming a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's right to due process. The new complaint has that entire section taken out, with no counts listed that reference poll watching or the 680,770 ballots.

Additionally, the original complaint requested relief that included preventing the certification of election results that included the counting of ballots that "watchers were prevented from observing," but the amended complaint does not include this or anything resembling that request.

Instead, where the amended complaint requests relief the only specific ballots mentioned are those that allegedly were "improperly permitted to be cured." This is a reference to allegations that voters in some counties who submitted invalid mail-in ballots were notified before Election Day so that they could cast provisional ballots instead, even though state law says that ballots should not be processed before Election Day.

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint on Sunday, claiming that the campaign's new filing "adds no new claims for relief and instead materially narrows the pending allegations to a single claim under the same theory alleged in the original complaint."

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Re: Trump lawyers drop PA claim about unwatched vote counting

That was the main argument the Trumpers on P&R were holding onto

Re: That was the main argument the Trumpers on P&R were holding onto

Re: Trump lawyers drop PA claim about unwatched vote counting

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You're believing Giuliani now?

Not sure why this is so hard to understand

Re: Not sure why this is so hard to understand

Are there any relevant PA cases remaining?

Read all you want

The WaPo is right.

Tomato tomahto I guess

Re: Tomato tomahto I guess

I was referring to the attached

I can’t help but think Trimp

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