No, there is no evidence that election officials in Pennsylvania violated state law.
Claim: President Trump’s campaign has claimed that election officials in Pennsylvania mishandled tens of thousands of votes, in violation of state election law.
Fact: The Trump campaign legal attempts to disqualify votes in Pennsylvania are not supported by evidence.
Background: The Trump campaign has filed several lawsuits in court to invalidate the Pennsylvania election results, and one ally of Mr. Trump, Senator Josh Hawley, said he would contest the result because he believed ‘some states, especially Pennsylvania, did not follow their own state. election laws. ”
But the Trump campaign did not include any evidence that any illegal vote had been cast.
At a trial on November 17, President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, admitted that he had no evidence to substantiate his allegations of voter fraud in Pennsylvania. “This is not a fraud case,” he said. Giuliani said.
Four days later, the judge in charge of the case dismissed the case. It was also shot down last month by Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump nominee at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, who said in a ruling: ‘To call an election unfair does not make it so. Charges ask for specific allegations and then evidence. We have not here. ”
No, Pence does not have the power to change the election result.
Claim: Vice President Mike Pence may reject state voters in the Electoral College.
Fact: Under federal law, the role of the vice president is to count the votes of the Electoral College and not decide whether they are valid.
Background: President Trump Tuesday falsely claimed on Twitter that mr. Pence has the power to reject voters once the voting college’s vote is certified.
As president of the Senate, it is expected that Mr. Pence will preside over the pro forma certification of the Electoral College’s vote count before a joint session of Congress. The only election certificates that Vice President Pence can preside over are those approved by each state.
Ben Decker and Jacob Silver contributed research.