Friday Afternoon Election Update: Biden leading in marathon
It is Friday afternoon, and the presidential marathon is still going on. Joe Biden is now moving further ahead of Donald Trump towards the “270” finish line.
Today in Pennsylvania, Biden overtook Trump in vote totals and leading by about 13,500 votes. Trump had been leading the state since Election Day, but Biden had been inching forward slowly as more ballots were being counted.
In Pennsylvania, state law allows mail-in ballots to be accepted up to three days after Election Day (up to today), as long as they are postmarked by Tuesday, November 3.
This early afternoon officials in Philadelphia said there are still 40,000 ballots left to count, including absentee ballots sent in from members of the military. They said it could take a few days to count them all.
Biden also overtook Trump in Georgia today and is ahead by about 1,500 votes. Georgia is one of the closest if not the closest race in the nation.There are about 4,000 ballots left to be counted, and about 9,000 military ballots to be counted if they arrive by 5 p.m. today. Georgia has a 5 p.m. deadline to “cure” absentee ballots that are rejected due to missing signatures or has a mismatched signature when compared with state records.
Georgia officials said they would do a recount because of the tight margins.
This afternoon in Nevada, Biden increased his lead from 11,000 votes to about 20,000 votes after the latest batch of votes were counted.
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President Trump gave a speech at the White House last night saying that there was election fraud. Fox News said there is very little proof of fraud. AP News said Trump was fabricating — making things up.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said Trump had a right to request recounts or ask for investigations or file lawsuits, but that he is wrong to say that the election is corrupt or stolen because it damages “freedom here and around the world.”
The Trump campaign filed several lawsuits in states that he lost or is behind in. AP said judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed lawsuits. A Pennsylvania lawsuit was resolved by allowing Democratic and Republican poll watchers to have equal access to the vote counting process.
The election seems to be trending in favor of a Joe Biden victory. Biden only needs to win one more state, while Trump, if he is to win, will have to catch up to Biden’s vote totals and win in Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Nevada, or pull out a surprise win in Arizona. Biden just needs one more state. But when will we finally know the final result? It depends on how fast Georgia and Pennsylvania can finish counting their remaining votes. Nevada could take up until Tuesday to complete. So it might be a long wait. It’s hard for me to predict whether we will know by today, or tomorrow, or later in the near future. I’m looking at the vote counts and the litigation in the backdrop.
Thats all for now. I’ll continue to provide updates. Stay with the light.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pennsylvania-election-update-tom-wolf-watch-live-stream-today-2020-11-05/
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-biden-election-results-11-06-20/h_970189ccac898eef0490d2ad98718320
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https://apnews.com/article/trump-fabricates-election-corruption-6f505533b323acc33350e0cebf937aa6