Commonwealth Court Judge has ordered the state officials to temporarily stop the further certification of the 2020 Presidential election results.
Commonwealth Court Judge has ordered the state officials to temporarily stop the further certification of the 2020 Presidential election results.On Nov. 24, 2020, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that he had certified Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the Pennsylvania presidential election. He had signed the Certificate of Ascertainment for the slate of electors for Joe Biden as president and Kamala Harris as vice president of the United States. It was submitted to the Archivist of the United States. President Donald Trump, who lost the electoral votes to Biden, had made Pennsylvania a focal point of his unsuccessful legal efforts to revoke the election results. On Nov. 25, 2020, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough directed state officials to stop further steps to certifying election results.
According to Forbes, Republican Mike Kelly filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s government, including its General Assembly, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, and Governor Tom Wolf, alleging the state’s mail-in voting rules are unconstitutional. Later the Pennsylvania court blocked the state from certifying results in any other election races until an evidentiary hearing in the case on Nov. 27, but the hearing got postponed.
Since there was no convincing justification regarding the order, Wolf’s government immediately registered notice to the state Supreme Court to stop the proposal.
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