Pennsylvania Republicans plan 'extraordinary measures' to delay election results
Republicans in the Pennsylvania state legislature on Tuesday said they would take “extraordinary measures” to find out whether the election in their state was fair, despite having no evidence of any wrongdoing. State Rep. Dawn Keefer, a Republican from York County, announced that Republicans in the state legislature would move to conduct an audit of the election, and that the state should not certify the election results, or select electors to the Electoral College, until it is completed.
“The General Assembly needs to take extraordinary measures to answer these extraordinary questions,” Keefer said while speaking in front of a group of a dozen or so House Republicans. But Keefer admitted that she and the Pennsylvania GOP do not have anything more than questions. There is no evidence of anything resembling coordinated cheating in the election.
“We've just gotten a lot of allegations,” Keefer said, referring to what she said was a flurry of calls and e-mails from voters “who are concerned and outraged by the circumstances surrounding this election.” Of course, the only circumstances that would lead any voter to believe there might have been cheating has been the evidence-free complaints from President Trump that such cheating did occur, and that Democrats are trying to cheat.
The delaying of certifying the election, and of choosing electors, raised concerns that the Republican Party might be in fact trying to use baseless claims of cheating to throw out the popular vote result in Pennsylvania, where Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden leads President Trump by about 47,000 votes, with analysts projecting that his lead will be closer to 100,000 once all votes are counted. The deadline to certify the election is Nov. 23 and the deadline to certify electors for the Electoral College is Dec. 8.
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