GOP blocked from tossing 100k votes as president cites endorsement that called him ’embarrassment’ – By Joe Sommerlad, Gino Spocchia, Oliver O’Connell (The Independent) / Nov 2 2020
A federal court judge in Texas has rejected a Republican-led effort to invalidate thousands of ballots cast in one of the largest counties in the US.
US District Judge Andrew Hanen, an appointee under Republican president George W Bush, ruled that GOP plaintiffs seeking to toss out nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-through sites in Harris County do not have standing to do so.
The news came as several states approached or surpassed the total number of votes cast in 2016.
Donald Trump’s supporters have been out in force on America’s highways as this year’s election race enters its home straight, blocking roads, bridges and freeways in New York, New Jersey and Colorado and stopping voters reaching polling stations in Temecula, California.
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