US Federal Judge has thrown out Trump’s election suit in Pennsylvania which accused officials of enabling voter fraud.
Jomog News Nigeria reports that a US federal judge on Saturday evening has dismissed President Donald Trump’s suit that accused Pennsylvania officials of enabling voter fraud, opening the way for the state to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and dealing a blow to the president’s narrowing legal options.
Rudy Giuliani, former New York Mayor, who led the legal had approached the Middle District Court of Pennsylvania, alleging that 1.5 million mail-in votes in the state were illegally counted.
He had alleged that the president’s poll watchers were not allowed to observe the counting of mail-in ballots, which created room for local governments controlled by the opposition Democratic Party to accept fraudulent and “technically deficient ballots”, he claimed.
Giuliani also said he gathered “300 affidavits, declarations that showed there were enough fraudulent ballots to invalidate the results.
However, the presiding judge, Matthew Brann, in his ruling threw out the case “for lack of compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption”.
Brann berated Trump’s lawyers for filing a “disjointed lawsuit,” adding that he would not “disenfranchise almost seven million voters” on baseless allegations.
“One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption.
“That has not happened,” the Judge said.
He also dismissed the case with prejudice, NAN reports.
Recall that President-elect, Joe Biden was declared winner in Pennsylvania with 3,458,312 votes to Trump’s 3,376,499 votes.
