Here's Where The Presidential Count In Pennsylvania Stands

Latest update: Biden's Projected PA Win Will Give Him The Presidency

PENNSYLVANIA — Joe Biden has expanded his lead over Donald Trump in Pennsylvania after additional mail-in ballot tallies were reported, but the count is ongoing. As of Saturday morning, Biden holds a lead of more than 28,000 votes in the race for the presidency in Pennsylvania.

There are more votes to count, including in Allegheny County and Philadelphia.

According to the latest totals reported by the Associated Press, Biden has 3,337,069 votes to Trump's 3,308,192. The state is reporting there are more than 89,000 mail-in ballots left to count. There are also several thousand outstanding provisional ballots.

A victory in the race would give Biden the state's 20 Electoral College votes, putting him over the 270 needed to win the presidency.

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald told NBC Saturday morning that counting has resumed there. "They will be working all day today," he said. He said he believes the county, home to Pittsburgh, could report up to 10,000 votes by mid-afternoon.

Fitzgerald, addressing questions about claims of voter fraud from the Trump Campaign, said there have been no reports of any issues. He said the vote count in Allegheny County has been transparent. "There are eyes in the skies, cameras all over the place in the ceilings," Fitzgerald said.

Biden pulled ahead just before 9 a.m. Friday as additional vote tallies were released in Philadelphia.

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Trump's campaign on Wednesday sued to stop the counting of votes in Pennsylvania. The campaign wanted to halt the counting of votes over concerns about "transparency," attempting to intervene in existing Supreme Court litigation over Pennsylvania's three-day extension for mail-in ballots and filing suit to challenge an extension of the deadline for mail-in and absentee voters to provide proof identification.

Mail-in ballots received as late as Friday can be counted in Pennsylvania, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month, upholding a September state court ruling. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule on a lawsuit by Trump's re-election campaign, the Republican National Committee and several GOP Pennsylvania congressmen asking the state to be barred from permitting mail-in votes.

On Friday, Pennsylvania Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court to issue an order that all ballots received after Tuesday be separated amid the legal dispute. However, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar has already said such ballots would be segregated.

"Given the results of the November 3, 2020 general election, the vote in Pennsylvania may well determine the next President of the United States—and it is currently unclear whether all 67 county boards of elections are segregating late-arriving ballots,” according to the GOP filing, as reported by Politico.

On Friday evening, the Supreme Court issued an order in the case, repeating the guidance that the ballots received after Tuesday must be segregated. The order doesn't state the ballots cannot be counted, NBC News reported.

Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said Friday afternoon that "the overwhelming majority" of mail-in and absentee ballots in Pennsylvania have been counted and the process of counting provisional ballots has begun.

“Pennsylvania counties have been incredibly hard at work canvassing all the ballots to provide accurate results as quickly as possible following best practices and responsibilities pursuant to state and federal law,” Secretary Boockvar said. “We are very thankful to all the election officials working extremely long hours to make our democracy work and ensure that every qualified voter’s vote is counted safely and securely.”

Under state law, county boards of election must individually adjudicate each provisional ballot and assess within seven days of an election whether they meet the standards for counting, Boockvar said.

"The counties will do so by verifying the voter was registered to vote in the precinct in which the ballot was cast, and that the voter did not cast a mail-in ballot prior to requesting the provisional ballot at the polling place," Boockvar said.