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Republicans fail with motion against extended election count in Pennsylvania

2020-10-20T15:10:25.091Z


Pennsylvania is considered an important state for the US election. The Republicans wanted to stop an extended ballot count there - and failed at the Supreme Court.


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In Pennsylvania, ballots received on time may be counted for up to three days after the election

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The US Republicans suffered a defeat in the Supreme Court in the dispute over the postal vote in the upcoming presidential election.

President Donald Trump's party had filed a motion to extend the deadline for the counting of election papers in the state of Pennsylvania.

Due to a tie of four to four votes among the judges of the Supreme Court, the motion did not go through.

The Republicans had wanted to reverse a court order that documents with the correct postmark must be counted three days after the actual election date - until November 6th.

Pennsylvania is known as the swing state, which sometimes the Republicans, sometimes the Democrats win in elections.

The result in swing states will be decisive for the election victory.

Pennsylvania is one of the particularly competitive states, neither for Trump nor for challenger Joe Biden of the Democrats is there a clear majority.

In 2016, Trump won in Pennsylvania by just 44,292 of the more than 6.1 million votes against his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, it is expected that more citizens than usual will make use of the option of early voting or absentee voting in the US election.

Trump has been raising the mood against postal voting for months because he allegedly sees massive potential for fraud in it.

There is no evidence to support his claims.

Trump's opponents accuse him of preparing the ground with his statements to contest the election result after a possible defeat.

At the end of September, Trump said that he expected the election to be decided by the Supreme Court.

That is why the US president is urging a quick replacement for the ninth judge's post in the Supreme Court in order to consolidate the conservative majority.

Currently only eight judges on the Supreme Court

After the death of long-time judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there are currently only eight judges on the Supreme Court, which is the only way to make a draw.

In the future, Trump's candidate for the Supreme Court, the conservative lawyer Amy Coney Barrett, could play a decisive role in such situations.

Trump and his Senate Republicans want to get Barrett into office before the November 3rd presidential election.

The court often has the final say in litigation on politically contested issues such as immigration, the right to abortion or health care.

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Source: spiegel

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