By Zachary Stieber A number of ballots couldn’t be scanned during local elections this week in a southwestern county in Pennsylvania, triggering fresh concerns about election integrity. The ballots, mostly from Republican voters in Fayette County, were missing bar codes that typically help facilitate electronic scanning. “What we know at this point in time is that a bar […]
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Full List: How Members of Congress Voted on Objections to Arizona, Pennsylvania Electoral Results
By Zachary Stieber Two objections triggered a vote during the joint session of Congress, which spilled into the early hours of Thursday before Joe Biden was certified as president-elect. Objections require support from at least one member of each chamber. The objections that received support were to electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. Both objections failed to get […]
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Over 432,000 Votes Removed From Trump in Pennsylvania, Data Scientists Say
By Allen Zhong Pennsylvania election data shows that over 432,000 votes were removed from President Donald Trump during the November election, data scientists say. According to an analysis by the Data Integrity Group, obtained exclusively by The Epoch Times, votes for Trump—from both Election Day and mail-in ballots—were removed from the totals in at least 15 […]
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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Urge McConnell and McCarthy to Dispute PA Election Results
By Tom Ozimek A group of 27 Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers on Dec. 30 penned a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), calling on them to dispute the Pennsylvania election results until an investigation is conducted into numerous claims of fraud. Pointing to allegations of fraudulent activity and violations of election law, the lawmakers said in […]
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Supreme Court Fails to Immediately Act on Trump Campaign’s Request to Expedite Pennsylvania Appeal
By Janita Kan The Supreme Court on Wednesday docketed an appeal filed by President Donald Trump’s campaign that seeks to reverse cases by a state court but did not immediately act on the campaign’s request to expedite the case. Instead, the top court’s docket shows a Jan. 22, 2021. deadline—two days after the presidential inauguration day—for when the […]
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Trump: ‘Big News Coming out of Pennsylvania’ About Drop Boxes
By Jack Phillips President Donald Trump on Monday morning announced that there will be “big news” in Pennsylvania as he challenges the election results in the commonwealth. “Big news coming out of Pennsylvania,” Trump wrote, without elaborating. “Very big illegal ballot drop that cannot be accounted for. Rigged Election!” It’s not clear if the president was referring to the […]
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Trump Campaign Files Supreme Court Challenge to Overturn Election Results in Pennsylvania
By Jack Phillips President Donald Trump’s campaign team on Sunday filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse cases by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that changed mail-in ballot laws. The campaign’s case (pdf) is attempting to reverse three cases decided by the state’s Supreme Court that “illegally changed” the mail-in ballot laws “immediately before […]
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Pennsylvania ‘Flagrantly Violated’ Laws Ahead of Election, Starr Says
By Jack Phillips Former independent counsel Ken Starr testified at a Senate panel hearing that Pennsylvania’s last-minute changes to election laws before the Nov. 3 election were flagrant violations. “The principle here is … the Constitution is very clear that it is the prerogative of state legislatures to determine what these rules and laws are,” Starr told […]
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Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona Republican Electors Cast Votes for Trump
By Bowen Xiao Republican electors in four states said on Dec. 14 that they would cast their procedural votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, the latest update contesting the results of the 2020 election. Republican electors in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona all said they voted for Trump. It comes as their states formally appointed Democratic […]
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Pennsylvania House Leaders File Brief to Support Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania
By Jack Phillips Pennsylvania’s House speaker and majority leader on Thursday filed an amici curiae brief with the Supreme Court against the state of Pennsylvania and in favor of Texas’s lawsuit against the commonwealth and three other states. A brief (pdf) filed by Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, both Republicans, requests that the Supreme Court “carefully consider the procedural […]
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Senator Cruz Agrees to Argue Pennsylvania Election Case If Taken Up by Supreme Court
By Janita Kan Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on Monday that he was willing to make oral arguments before the Supreme Court in an appeal seeking to block the state from taking further action to certify their election results. The appeal is currently pending before the Supreme Court after Pennsylvania Republicans filed a request to block the finalizing of […]
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Justice Alito Moves up Supreme Court Deadline in Key Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballot Case
By Jack Phillips Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito asked officials in Pennsylvania to file briefs by Tuesday at 9 a.m. in response to a lawsuit filed by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) in a bid to overturn the state’s election results. Tuesday, notably, is the “safe harbor” deadline that requires controversies surrounding elections to be ended so states can choose their […]
