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Judge throws out Donald Trump’s bid to stop Pennsylvania vote certification
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by US President Donald Trump’s campaign that sought to throw out millions of mail-in votes in Pennsylvania.
The ruling deals Mr Trump’s campaign another blow in its effort to overturn his November 3 election loss to Democratic president-elect Joe Biden.
US District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, described the case presented by the Trump campaign as “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations”.
Judge Brann added that he “has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens”.
“In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its…
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