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Trump Campaign Reportedly Says It’s Suing To Stop The Counting Of Votes In Pennsylvania

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">TSR Politics&colon; As election workers continue to count ballots in Pennsylvania&comma; a hotly contested state&comma; Donald Trump’s campaign says it’s suing to stop Pennsylvania’s vote count over lack of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;transparency” and seeking to intervene in a Supreme Court case&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;philadelphia&period;cbslocal&period;com&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;04&sol;trump-campaign-says-its-suing-to-stop-pennsylvanias-vote-count-over-lack-of-transparency&sol;">CBS Philly<&sol;a> reports&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Some of Pennsylvania’s most heavily populated counties&comma; including Philadelphia&comma; were tabulating votes around the clock&period; Allegheny County&comma; where Pittsburgh is located&comma; said it would resume the count at 10 a&period;m&period; today&period; More than 900&comma;000 mail ballots were left to be counted&comma; according to the latest state data&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">PA’s governor Tom Wolf pledged Wednesday that all votes are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;going to be counted accurately and they’re going to be counted fully&period; … Every Pennsylvanian can have confidence in the outcome of this election&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Hearings were scheduled today in two Election Day lawsuits filed by Republicans&comma; both seeking to prevent voters whose mail-in ballots were disqualified for technical reasons from fixing the ballot or casting a new one&period; One of the cases is in a federal court in Philadelphia&comma; while the other is in a statewide appellate court in Harrisburg&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Republicans filed a federal lawsuit accusing officials in suburban Philadelphia’s Montgomery County of illegally processing 49 mail-in ballots before Tuesday for the purpose of allowing voters to fix problems with their ballots&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">But Kelly Cofrancisco&comma; a county spokesperson&comma; insisted the state’s highest court has not prohibited counties from allowing voters to fix their ballots&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">And in the lawsuit filed Tuesday night in the appellate court&comma; Republican U&period;S&period; Rep&period; Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania and five other plaintiffs asked to block counties from allowing voters whose mail-in ballots were disqualified to be able to cast their vote by provisional ballot&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">It hasn’t helped that Trump has tried to spread incorrect info about the fairness of the election&comma; saying the only way Democrats could win Pennsylvania is to cheat&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Donnie’s team reportedly had plans to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;president-donald-trump-files-lawsuit-in-michigan-to-stop-ballots-from-being-counted&sol;">file a similar lawsuit in Michigan<&sol;a> earlier Wednesday&period; 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