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US Election: Court orders in favor of Trump, grants more access to vote counting

The ruling in one of the several lawsuits filed by US President Donald Trump was released Thursday, giving Republicans more access to a vote-counting center in Pennsylvania.Lawsuits were put forth in battleground states of Michigan, and more are expected in Nevada and Georgia. A recount has been demanded in Wisconsin, where Democratic nominee Joe Biden was declared the winner by several media outlets.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The Republican president has accused Democrats of voter fraud, saying that there were videos and photographs to prove that his supporters were not allowed access to rooms where ballots were being counted.On Thursday, a Pennsylvania appellate court ordered more access for observers inside vote counting centers.“The appellate court just issued an order allowing immediate access for our team to observe the voting process,” Trump’s former special adviser, Pam Bondi, said outside the Philadelphia Convention Center.“Our team of 15 people will be headed in right now,” Bondi said, holding up the court order.Corey Lewandowski, a senior adviser for the Trump campaign, called the decision “very important.”Lewandowski said Trump’s team would have an observer six-feet behind every person who’s counting these votes.“It’s time to go in and put some light on what’s happening,” Lewandowski said.Meanwhile, other Trump campaign officials announced more lawsuits would be brought forward in Pennsylvania and Nevada.Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien told reporters on a conference call that Trump was “alive and well” with regard to the presidential race.Campaign adviser Jason Miller said he expected legal action in Pennsylvania to ensure visibility on previous ballots that have been counted in that state.Read more: US Election 2020: Twitter hides, restricts several Trump tweets about electionUS Election: Trump, Pence launch eleventh-hour appeal to supporters to ‘FIGHT BACK’- With Reuters
Source: Al Arabiya
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US Elections: Biden is one state away from victory, Trump wants to stop the count

Democrat Joe Biden was pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to clinch victory in the 2020 Elections, needing only to win one of the states which remain undeclared.Biden’s Michigan and Wisconsin wins left him at 264 electoral votes, while incumbent Donald Trump had only 214.Biden needs only to win one of the remaining battleground states – Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Nevada – to carry the White House.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Meanwhile, Trump has a much more difficult road to victory, as he would need to claim all four or the remaining battlegrounds.With millions of votes yet to be tabulated, Biden already had received more than 71 million votes, the most in history.At an afternoon news conference Wednesday, the former vice president said he expected to win the presidency but stopped short of outright declaring victory.“I will govern as an American president,” Biden said. "There will be no red states and blue states when we win. Just the United States of America.”Trump, in contrast, was escalating his efforts to sow doubt about the outcome of the race.A day after he falsely claimed that he had won the election, he voiced support Thursday for ceasing the tallying of legally-cast votes in a tweet, saying, “STOP THE COUNT!”He later falsely asserted that ballots received after Election Day “will not be counted," a move that if implemented would affect military ballots, as his campaign propagated baseless allegations of fraud.Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said the president would formally request a Wisconsin recount, citing “irregularities” in several counties.And the campaign said it was filing suit in Michigan and Pennsylvania to halt ballot counting on grounds that it wasn’t given proper access to observe. Still more legal action was launched in Georgia.- With APRead more:Trump or Biden: Who is winning the US election? Here are the results state by stateUS Election 2020: Biden pulls ahead of Trump in Electoral College and popular voteUS Elections 2020: Will loser of the election accept the result?
Source: Al Arabiya
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