Trailing by 45K+ Votes In PA, GOP Obsesses Over 10,000 ‘Late,’ Uncounted Ballots
On Monday (November 9), The Washington Examiner reported that “Republican attorneys general from nearly a dozen states called upon the Supreme Court to intervene in a GOP lawsuit opposing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to extend the counting of mail-in ballots to include those that arrived up to three days after Election Day as long as they were postmarked by the time polls closed.”
Click here to read the whole filing.
The 29-page Amicus Brief argues that the Pennsylvania Supreme overstepped its bounds when it ruled that county election boards could received mail-ballots until November 6 (In case you forgot, Election Day was November 3), as long as those ballots were postmarked by November 3. The brief also states that the “States outside Pennsylvania have a
strong interest in preventing the effective invalidation
of their own voters’ choices through illegal voting in
Pennsylvania.”
The Attorneys’ General brief fails to answer one important question. So what?
For the sake of discussion, let’s assume that all the arguments being made by the attorneys general are air-tight, and the U.S. Supreme Court grants them their wish.
Will that result in Donald Trump’s winning Pennsylvania’s 20 Electoral votes?
No. Right now Joe Biden is leading Trump by 45,278 votes in Pennsylvania, and there are 52,924 mail-ballots still to be counted. Biden has been getting about 77% of the mail-votes. Unless the last 53,000 mail-ballots break out dramatically differently from the first 2.5 million that were counted, Biden is going to wind up with a lead of about 74,000 votes, before the remaining 90,000 provisional votes are counted.
So far the provisional votes have been breaking for Trump. He’s gotten 9,581 provisional votes to Biden’s 5,808. If that that trend were to continue for the remaining provisional votes, Trump would eat into Biden’s lead by about 22,000 votes. That would give Biden the win by around 52,000 votes, well above the threshold that would force a re-count.
So what was the point of these 10 attorneys general going to all this trouble to craft this 6,063 word oeuvre? We could debate the answer to that question at length. However, it is safe to say that their arguments can all be summed up in one word.
Moot
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