The state of Pennsylvania certified its election results Tuesday, as Governor Tom Wolf signed off on the slate of 20 electors and solidified President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state where he was born, one of the most hotly contested prizes of the election.
The move in Pennsylvania, a state that Biden won by more than 80,000 votes, follows the certification of the results in Michigan on Monday and Georgia on Friday.
All three were states that President Donald Trump won in 2016 and Biden flipped. North Carolina, a state that Trump won, also certified its election results Tuesday.
With multiple battleground states that Biden won now having certified their results, the flailing effort by Trump and his allies to subvert the election and overturn the votes of millions of Americans is nearing its end.
In Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign and Republican allies had tried to halt the certification for weeks through a flurry of litigation, yet they were constantly rebuffed by judges who found the effort lacked any evidence of fraud.
The campaign had most recently asked the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals to block certification in Pennsylvania. But some legal experts have argued that if the state officially certified its results before the court made a decision, the case would be considered moot.
The Biden campaign took aim at the legal efforts to disqualify votes Tuesday and predicted that the Trump campaign's continued lawsuits were destined to fail.
"It's readily apparent to everyone besides Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis that this election is over and that Joe Biden won resoundingly," Bob Bauer, a senior adviser to Biden, said in a statement after the certification was announced.
4 hrs ago – 5.13am Biden win over Trump in Nevada made official by court
AP
The Nevada Supreme Court made Joe Biden’s win in the state official on Tuesday, approving the state's final canvass of the November 3 election.
The unanimous action by the seven nonpartisan justices sends to Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak results that will deliver six electoral votes from the western US battleground state to Biden.
The court action drew extra scrutiny amid legal efforts by the state GOP and Trump campaign to prevent sending vote-by-mail ballots to all 1.82 million active registered voters and then to stop the counting of the 1.4 million votes that were cast.
Nevada’s six Democratic presidential electors are scheduled to meet December 14 in the state capital of Carson City.
Biden won by Nevada 33,596 votes, according to results approved by elected officials in Nevada’s 17 counties — including Clark County, which encompasses Las Vegas, and Washoe County, which includes Reno.
Biden got 50.06 per cent of the vote and Trump 47.67 per cent.
Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, a Republican who has avoided the public eye in recent weeks, presented the results to the court
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Timothy Moore
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