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Among the more than 60 state representatives and state senators who last month petitioned Pennsylvania’s Congresssional delegation to reject the 20 Electoral College votes certified for Joe Biden were several elected officials from the Lehigh Valley area.
Pennsylvania’s top election official spent nearly three hours Thursday defending her handling of the 2020 presidential election and calling for an end to the ‘lies that have been proven again and again to be false.’
Normally a formality in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, Monday’s meeting of presidential electors received far greater attention than usual, as President Donald Trump continues to deny the results of November’s election. Trump lost the race to Democrat Joe Biden, but has refused to concede.
Though likely doomed, the effort comes as GOP leaders continue to cast doubt on the integrity of Pennsylvania’s vote-by-mail process and the November election.
President Donald Trump summoned Pennsylvania state lawmakers to the White House to talk about the election, but those who went weren’t talking about it later.
Only President-elect Joe Biden’s electors will go to Harrisburg on Dec. 14 to formally cast their support for the former vice president, who won Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes.
Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to become president-elect of the United States Saturday, capturing Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes and more than the 270 needed in the Electoral College to claim victory.
Republicans will maintain their control of the Pennsylvania state House and Senate following Tuesday’s election, in which efforts by Democrats to flip seats like the one currently held by state Rep. Justin Simmons largely failed.
Most of the votes in Northampton County had been counted as of early Wednesday, and according to the unofficial results published on its website Hellertown borough and Lower Saucon Township voters diverged in terms of who they chose.
Two readers contacted Saucon Source independently of each other Tuesday to report that poll workers assigned to work in District #3 in Lower Saucon Township weren’t wearing face masks, in spite of a county elections requirement that they wear them due to the coronavirus pandemic.
For anyone concerned about the potential spread of the novel coronavirus, including state officials, the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s announcement Tuesday that a record number of new COVID-19 cases was confirmed during the previous 24 hours has to be a cause for concern.
