The Trump campaign plans to appeal the decision, but the Pennsylvania AG called the decision a 'victory' for voters.
's campaign to name ballot boxes unconstitutional, while also criticizing"uncertain assumptions" made by the campaign regarding voter fraud.
As the opinion by District Judge Nicholas Ranjan explained, Republicans were challenging as unconstitutional the use of ballot"drop boxes," restrictions that require poll watchers to be residents of the county they're assigned to, and guidance by Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Kathy Boockvar that signatures on mail-in ballots do not need to match ones on file.
The court ruled in favor of the defendants and dismissed the case."Plaintiffs have not presented a concrete injury to warrant federal-court review," Ranjan wrote about the fear of voter fraud, saying that the plaintiffs failed to prove that fraud was"certainly impending.
The other reason Ranjan gave for the dismissal was that even if the suggestions were useful, he didn't feel it was the court's place to"second guess" the regulations already put in place by officials."[T]he job of an unelected federal judge isn't to suggest election improvements, especially when those improvements contradict the reasoned judgment of democratically elected officials," he wrote.
The Trump campaign plans to appeal the decision."Clearly, we disagree with the Western District's decision on unsecure drop boxes, and President Trump's team will immediately file an appeal to the Third Circuit to continue our fight to protect every Pennsylvania voter.
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