Pennsylvania, the largest of the six battleground states, was a particular focus of the Trump campaign's legal challenges, with suits filed in both state and federal courts.
"These claims were meritless from the start and for an audience of one," Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a statement. "The will of the people will prevail. These baseless lawsuits need to end."
Venezuela, Cuba
While Tuesday's hearing was steeped in conspiratorial rhetoric, Giuliani and other campaign lawyers made even more outlandish accusations at a press conference two days later, describing a scheme involving child voters, dead voters and secretive overseas ballot tabulation directed by George Soros and "communist money" from Venezuela and Cuba.
But the actual claims in the campaign's lawsuit were always narrower than its public allegations. The suit's most consistent claim was that certain Democratic-led counties had more lenient rules in accepting "defective" ballots or letting voters "cure" such ballots than Republican-led ones, which the campaign claimed violated the Constitution's due process and equal protection guarantees. The state denied those claims and also said the campaign's proposed remedy of disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters was implausible.
Pressed by Brann on Tuesday if he was actually alleging voter fraud, Giuliani acknowledged that he was not. The judge said in his decision that while Pennsylvania law doesn't explicitly allow for election officials to let voters cure their ballot errors, it also doesn't forbid it, and the state's highest court declined to clarify the issue.
Republican observers
The campaign has also suggested that hundreds of thousands of ballots in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh should be invalidated because they were allegedly counted without proper oversight by Republican observers, exposing them to potential fraud. Claims tied to such allegations were left out of an amended complaint filed on Sunday but partially reinstated in a second revised complaint filed on Wednesday.
"That plaintiffs are trying to mix-and-match claims to bypass contrary precedent is not lost on the court," Brann wrote.
Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat, and Pennsylvania county officials argued GOP observers were present while all ballots were canvassed, and that the pre-election "cure" of some ballot deficiencies was allowed under state law.
The second amended complaint also added a proposal that Brann declare the entire Pennsylvania vote "defective" and let the Republican-controlled state legislature decide the election in favor of Trump. Civil rights groups on Friday evening blasted the argument and urged the judge to dismiss the case, saying it was based on an "incoherent conspiracy theory."
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