3 election results in the presidential and other statewide contests.
Citing what they described as election law compromises, irregularities and improprieties associated with mail-in balloting, pre-canvassing, and canvassing, the 26 lawmakers stated in a news release issued late Friday afternoon the issues raised about the election has “undermined our elector process and as a result we can not accept certification of the results in statewide races.”.The resolution contradicts statements in October by two Republican state leaders, Sen.“The Pennsylvania General Assembly does not have and will not have a hand in choosing the state’s presidential electors or in deciding the outcome of the presidential election.A spokesman for Benninghoff repeated on Friday what his caucus leaders stated earlier: They are standing by tradition of the popular vote winner in the presidential race getting the electors.Tom Wolf certified the election results showing President-elect Joe Biden won the state by more than 81,000 votes.
Other statewide races resulted in Republican Auditor General candidate Timothy DeFoor and Republican state Treasurer candidate Stacy Garrity as the winner of their races while Democratic incumbent Josh Shapiro won his re-election bid as attorney general.
Even though two of the three GOP candidates for statewide row offices were certified as the winners, the lawmakers say they and the selection of presidential electors for Biden should be withdrawn or vacated.The resolution also urges Congress to “declare the selection of presidential electors in this commonwealth to be in dispute.”.
Trump has lost a string of legal challenges to the election results in Pennsylvania.Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote there is no proof to back his assertions that the 2020 presidential election was unfair.
But calling an election unfair does not make it so,” Bibas wrote in the opinion from the U.S.
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