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Trump Campaign Abandons Parts of Pennsylvania Election Lawsuit

Reuters

   U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign on Sunday dropped a major part
   of a lawsuit it brought seeking to halt Pennsylvania from certifying
   its results in the presidential election, narrowing the case to a small
   number of ballots.

   In an amended complaint filed in federal court, the Trump campaign
   dropped a claim that election officials unlawfully blocked observers
   from watching the counting of mail-in ballots in Philadelphia and
   Pittsburgh.

   The pared-down lawsuit now focuses on a claim that Democratic-leaning
   counties unlawfully allowed voters to fix errors in their mail-in
   ballots in violation of state law. Officials have said the dispute
   affects a small number of ballots in the state, where Democrat Joe
   Biden is projected to win by more than 60,000 votes.

   Pennsylvania officials hadasked a judgetotoss Trump's lawsuit, saying
   the election observerswere allowed toassess the processing of mail-in
   ballots and thatallthe state's counties were permitted to inform
   residents if their mailed-in ballots were deficient, even if it was not
   mandatory for them to do so.

   In Pennsylvania's populous Montgomery County,fewerthan 100 voters fixed
   ballots with technical errors, a county official testified at a court
   hearing on Nov. 4.

   The Trump campaign continues to seek a court order blocking the
   Pennsylvania secretary of state from ratifying the result.

   Biden clinched the election after news media and Edison Research called
   him as thewinnerin Pennsylvania, putting him over the 270 electoral
   votes needed to win.

   Trump on Sunday briefly appeared to acknowledge that Biden's victory,
   but then recanted and claimed he would soon file fresh challenges. His
   campaign has filed a string of long-shot lawsuits in several
   battleground states.

   On Twitter on Sunday, Trump said many cases being filed were not from
   his campaign.

   Legal experts say the lawsuits have little chance of changing the
   outcome of the election. A senior Biden legal adviser has dismissed the
   litigation as "theatrics, not really lawsuits."

   Pennsylvania isscheduledto certifyitselection results on Nov. 23.

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