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New petition filed in Pa. to overturn election results

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Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani | Facebook

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani | Facebook

President Donald Trump’s campaign is continuing its push to have the Nov. 3 election results overturned, announcing a new petition being filed with the U.S. Supreme Court of Appeals.

In the most recent petition, the campaign is hoping to reverse several cases from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court involving absentee ballots. It wants the Supreme Court to put the Pennsylvania General Assembly in charge of choosing the state’s electors.

“The petition seeks all appropriate remedies, including vacating the appointment of electors committed to Joseph Biden and allowing the Pennsylvania General Assembly to select their replacements," Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said in a statement, NBC 10 Philadelphia reported. 

So far the Trump campaign and its allies have filed approximately 50 lawsuits alleging election irregularities and fraud. Pennsylvania certified President-elect Joe Biden’s win last month after spending three weeks counting votes.

Most of the lawsuits have either been dismissed or were dropped. The U.S. Supreme Court has said twice it will not take up cases that were brought before it.

Sunday’s filing notes three decisions of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed with a lower court judge that state law only required election officials to be able to see the absentee ballots being processed but not stand close enough to see what was written on each individual envelope.

It also handed down a ruling that 8,300 absentee ballots in Philadelphia that were challenged by the Trump campaign should still be counted.

Another decision by the court was in October when it agreed to disallow counties to reject absentee ballots because voter signatures didn’t match their registration forms.

There are still approximately 10,000 ballots that arrived after the state’s deadline that have remained in limbo until the Supreme Court makes a decision on if they should be counted. The Pennsylvania Republican Party also has a petition pending involving the absentee ballot deadline, but that petition notes that the party is aware that the issue at hand won’t change the election’s outcome.

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