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Continued from Front an interview with the postal
The Justice Department service's inspector general's
had been looking into the office, people familiar with
allegations, but officials the matter said. It is a fed-
wouldn't comment further. eral crime to make a ma-
With Biden leading Trump terially false statement to a
by wide margins in key federal agent. The people
battleground states, none were not authorized to
of those issues would have speak about an ongoing
any impact on the out- investigation and spoke to
come of the election. the AP on condition of ano-
Nevada election law stipu- nymity.
lates that in order to register The employee, Richard
to vote, an individual must Hopkins, admitted in an
have been a resident for 30 interview with the Postal
days preceding an elec- Service's inspector gen-
tion, but does not specify eral that allegations were
how long an already regis- based on parts of a con-
tered voter must be physi- versation he overheard
cally present in the state in among co-workers at the
order to participate in an mail facility where he works
election. in Erie. He also said an affi-
The Nevada Secretary of In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo people wait outside of a polling place on Election Day in Las Vegas. davit cited by Sen. Lindsey
State's office said voters do Associated Press Graham, R-S.C., the chair-
not lose their eligibility to man of the Senate Judi-
vote or void their registra- lows otherwise eligible vot- Barr gave prosecutors the as the potential for a small ciary Committee — and
tion when they leave the ers to be exempt from any ability to go around long- number of ballots miscast forwarded to the Justice
state temporarily, even for requirements that they standing Justice Depart- or lost. Department by Graham —
long periods of time, and reside in a state for any ment policy that normally Trump's campaign has also was written by Project Veri-
they may travel for 30 days amount of time in order to would prohibit such overt launched legal challenges tas, a conservative group
or more and still cast a bal- cast a vote in a presiden- actions before the election complaining that their poll that has been promoting
lot. tial election. A citizen who is certified. Soon after it was watchers were unable to voter fraud accusations on
Clark County Registrar moves within 30 days be- issued, the department's scrutinize the voting pro- social media.
of Voters Joe Gloria re- fore an election has the top elections crime official cess. Many of those chal- He agreed that some of
sponded to the Trump right to vote in their new announced he would step lenges have been tossed the statements in the affi-
campaign's allegations at state or their prior state of aside from that position be- out by judges; none of the davit should have included
a news conference last residence. Voters who take cause of the memo. complaints show any evi- amendments or caveats
week, saying his office was advantage of that only The issues Trump's cam- dence that the outcome of and also agreed to sign a
reviewing a list of names vote for president and vice paign and its allies have the election was impacted. new statement that under-
that the campaign sent president. They do not get pointed to are typical in Another active probe in cut some of his main claims
him, but said the allegation to vote in any other con- every election: Problems Pennsylvania, meanwhile, in the initial affidavit, ac-
involves "something that tests. with signatures, secrecy en- appears to have fallen cording to a recording of
happens regularly." Shortly after the Trump velopes and postal marks apart after the employee the interview posted by
Federal and state law al- campaign sent its letter, on mail-in ballots, as well recanted the allegations in Project Veritas.q

Republicans face court setbacks, Trump law firm steps down

Election Day in Pennsylva- lots to change the results tification of Detroit-area
nia. The judges noted the in Pennsylvania, given election results, rejecting
"vast disruption" and "un- President-elect Joe Biden's claims the city had com-
precedented challenges" lead. The Democratic for- mitted fraud and tainted
facing the nation during mer vice president won the count with its handling
the COVID-19 pandemic the state by about 60,000 of absentee ballots. It's
as they upheld the three- votes out of about 6.8 mil- the third time a judge has
day extension. lion cast. declined to intervene in a
Chief U.S. Circuit Judge D. The Trump campaign or Re- statewide count that shows
Brooks Smith said the panel publican surrogates have Biden up by more than
kept in mind "a proposition filed more than 15 legal 140,000 votes.
indisputable in our demo- challenges in Pennsylvania And, in Arizona, campaign
cratic process: that the as they seek to reclaim the lawyers sought to withdraw
lawfully cast vote of every state's 20 electoral votes, efforts to seek a manual in-
citizen must count." but have so far offered spection of ballots in metro
Members of the Allegheny County Return Board process the re-
maining absentee and mail-in Allegheny County ballots, Thurs- The ruling involves a Penn- no evidence of any wide- Phoenix, as it became clear
day, Nov. 12, 2020, on the North Side in Pittsburgh. sylvania Supreme Court spread voter fraud. the number of ballots at is-
Associated Press decision to accept mail-in A Philadelphia judge found sue could not change the
ballots through Friday, Nov. none as he refused late Fri- outcome of the presiden-
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Re- Donald Trump's campaign 6, citing the pandemic and day to reject about 8,300 tial race. Trump attorney
publicans suffered set- withdrew from a major concerns about postal ser- mail-in ballots there. The Kory Langhofer, in the filing,
backs to court challenges Pennsylvania case. vice delays. campaign has pursued alluded to updated elec-
over the presidential elec- The legal blows began Republicans have also similar litigation in other tion returns that show Dem-
tion in three battleground when a federal appeals asked the U.S. Supreme battleground states, with ocrat Joe Biden ahead by
states on Friday while a court rejected an effort to Court to review the issue. little to show for it. more than 11,000 votes,
law firm that came under block about 9,300 mail-in However, there are not In Michigan, a judge Friday with about 10,000 ballots
fire for its work for President ballots that arrived after enough late-arriving bal- refused to stop the cer- left to count.q