Delaware County Named In Trump Campaign's Latest Election Lawsuit

DELAWARE COUNTY, PA — Delaware County is the target of a GOP-backed lawsuit challenging the legality of the 2020 election, days after Joe Biden was declared the projected winner of Pennsylvania and the presidency.

Delaware County was one of seven counties in Pennsylvania named Monday in the Trump campaign's latest filing, which aims to stop the Pennsylvania Department of State from certifying the final results. No hearing date had been scheduled as of Tuesday afternoon.

The suit resurfaces allegations that state and Democratic county officials broke the law. The claims, which chiefly surround mail-in ballots, are backed by no hard evidence in the suit.

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Philadelphia, Allegheny, Chester, Centre, Montgomery, and Northampton counties are also named in the suit.

That suit, which was met with skepticism by a federal judge, claimed that the county had broken the law in allowing voters to correct "naked" ballots and other issues on Election Day, ensuring that their vote was counted. That suit was withdrawn just days later, with lawyers for Barnette citing similar pending litigation.

The fixing of errors on ballots is just one of the oft-cited gripes reiterated in the new suit filed Monday. It also claims that mail-in ballots are held to a lesser security standard than in-person voting, and that the three-day deadline extension for mail-in ballots, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, is illegal. See details here.

Biden defeated Trump soundly in Delaware County, by a significantly wider margin than Hillary Clinton won here in 2016. With a small amount of mail-in ballots still to be counted in the county, Biden earned 201,448 votes to Trump's 116,656.

Story by Justin Heinze