A court in Georgia has dismissed a lawsuit by the state
Republican Party and US President Donald Trump’s campaign asking that the
county followed state laws on processing absentee ballots, Associated Press
reported Thursday.
According to AP, Chatham County Superior Court Judge, James
Bass, did not provide an explanation for his decision Thursday at the close of
a roughly one-hour hearing. The county includes the heavily Democratic city of
Savannah.
The suit had raised concerns about 53 absentee ballots that
poll observers said were not part of an original batch of ballots. But County
elections officials testified that all 53 ballots had been received on time.
Both Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, still had
paths to winning the White House by hitting the magic majority threshold of 270
of the electoral votes awarded to whichever candidate wins the popular vote in
a given state.
But momentum moved to Biden, who made a televised speech
from his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware to say that “when the count is
finished, we believe we will be the winners.”
By flipping the northern battlegrounds of Michigan and
Wisconsin, and also winning formerly pro-Trump Arizona, Biden reached 264
electoral votes against 214 so far for Trump.
To reach 270, Biden hopes to add the six electoral votes
from Nevada, where he had a small and shrinking lead, or, even better, the
larger prizes of hard-fought Georgia or Pennsylvania.
However, Trump has so far accused his opponent of electoral
fraud and threatened court action.
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