Election results: Trump’s legal effort hits wall in 2 Pennsylvania cases over technical voting errors

Two more legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s campaign in Pennsylvania appear to have failed, ensuring that more than 2,700 ballots that had been challenged on technical grounds would, in fact, be counted.

One case, filed in the Philadelphia suburb of Bucks County, sought to reject 2,177 ballots for words missing on the address line or poorly sealed secret envelopes. A similar challenge brought in neighboring Montgomery County was dismissed by the court.

In dismissing the Bucks County lawsuit, Judge Robert O. Baldi said it would be “an injustice to deprive these voters” on the basis of technical ballot errors. Baldi has repeatedly noted that the Trump team “specifically stated” that “there is no evidence of fraud, misconduct or any irregularity regarding the disputed ballots.”

SEE ALSO: Trump summons Michigan GOP leaders to White House for extraordinary meeting

“There is nothing on the record and nothing alleged that would lead to the conclusion that any of the disputed ballots were submitted by someone not qualified or entitled to vote in this election,” Baldi wrote.

The point took on added significance as Trump’s legal team, and the president himself, continued to allege fraud on social media and in press appearances – but not as brutally in court where evidence are necessary to substantiate the complaint.

Eliza Sweren-Becker, Democracy Program lawyer at the bipartisan Brennan Center for Justice, told ABC News that lawsuits like these appear to be aimed at attracting attention.

“A lot of this litigation, the other cases that the campaign has filed are really a distraction,” Sweren-Becker said. “It is important to recognize the frivolous nature of these combinations.”

Some of the reasons the Trump team argued for ballot disqualification involved ballots mailed from voters who left part of their address or failed to properly secure the privacy envelope. , among other concerns that the judge called “minor”.

“The minor irregularity in the absence of a name or a full handwritten address is not necessary to prevent fraud and there would be no other significant interest jeopardized in allowing the counting of these ballots”, said he wrote.

SEE ALSO: Biden tells governors he will help states overcome COVID-19 pandemic