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Sen. Ted Cruz has urged the U.S Supreme Court to hear the emergency appeal which brings to light irregularities in the Pennsylvania election.  

According to Cruz, there was a breach in the constitution law and a bias in the use of legal doctrine.

"The Pennsylvania Constitution requires in-person voting, except in narrow and defined circumstances. Late last year, the Pennsylvania Legislature passed a law that purported to allow universal mail-in voting, notwithstanding the Pennsylvania Constitution's express prohibition. This appeal argues that Pennsylvania cannot change the rules in the middle of the game. If Pennsylvania wants to change how voting occurs, the state must follow the law to do so,” read a statement released by Cruz.

"In the current appeal, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed the claim based on a legal doctrine called ‘laches,' which essentially means the plaintiffs waited too long to bring the challenge. But, the plaintiffs reasonably argue that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has not applied that doctrine consistently and so they cannot selectively enforce it now.

Furthermore, Cruz alleges that the change in the law of mail-in voting was done by a biased State Supreme Court panel that consisted of Democrats. Under normal circumstances, the Supreme Court should have no involvement in election disputes concerning state laws.

Thirty-nine percent of Americans are said to believe the election was rigged, according to a poll by Reuters. 

Meanwhile, Trump loyalist Attorney General William Barr was quoted saying that fraud was unlikely in this election.

“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Barr said in an interview with  The Associated Press.