Republican attorneys general back Trump’s election challenge

A group of Republican attorneys general on Monday called on the Supreme Court to consider a case challenging a lower court ruling extending the postal ballot deadline in Pennsylvania.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, joined by nine other state attorneys general, said judges should block a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling allowing counting of postmarked mail ballots before the day of the ballot, but delivered last Friday.

“The decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overstepped its constitutional authority and encroached upon the authority given to the Pennsylvania legislature,” Schmitt argued in the record.

Representatives of the Republican state said in the filing that postal voting was susceptible to fraud. Experts, however, have found that there is little significant evidence of documented fraud among mail ballots.

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Election officials found no evidence of fraud in Pennsylvania.

The United States Supreme Court last week ordered Pennsylvania election commissions to separately count mailed ballots that arrived after election day, although the court rejected a Republican demand to stop counting them. The number of ballots in question would be between 3,000 and 4,000.

Election law experts said that even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ballots, it would not affect the outcome of the presidential race unless the election was decided by a narrow margin. in Pennsylvania. Biden leads Trump with more than 45,000 votes in Pennsylvania, according to the Associated Press.

The AP, Fox News, CNN and a list of other media outlets called the race to Biden on Saturday. The AP did not call the race in Georgia or North Carolina.