Pennsylvania Secretary of State to Not Order Recount

Pennsylvania’s top election official confirmed on Friday that she would not order a recount or review of her state’s election results as Republicans denounce local officials over allegations of baseless voter fraud.

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar (D) said races for president, state attorney general, auditor general and state treasurer will not face recounts or recoveries after unofficial reports submitted by state counties showed that no statewide candidate lost less than 0.5%, the margin at which such appeals would be triggered.

“We are extremely grateful to the 67 counties who have worked overtime and put in an extraordinary effort to count every vote, with over 6.8 million votes so far having been counted,” Boockvar said in a statement. “The counties continue to rule and count the approximately 100,000 provisional ballots issued to voters at the ballot box on election day, as well as the more than 28,000 military and foreign ballots that were cast in this election.

With the ballots still being voted on, Biden currently holds a lead of nearly 60,000 votes in the state, a margin that has multiplied since the state was called to him last weekend and could increase further.

The Pennsylvania State Department said in a press release that 40,000 provisional ballots “have been or partially counted” and that figure “will continue to increase over the next few days.”

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The main argument of Republicans in Pennsylvania centers on the fact that state law allows the counting of ballots posted on election day and received at 5 p.m. last Friday. The State Department said about 10,000 mail-in ballots that were cast on or before November 3 were received between 8 p.m. on November 3 and 5 p.m. on November 6, a total that is not large enough. to influence the decision not to recount or repeat. in one of the races.

The Trump campaign is also pursuing lawsuits in a number of other swing states.

With every state now called into the presidential race, Biden defeated Trump with 306 electoral votes to 232, meaning Biden would still have more than the 270 electoral votes he needs to win the White House without Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes. . The president-elect successfully overthrew Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.