A court in Georgia has dismissed a lawsuit by the state Republican Party and US President Donald Trump’ s campaign asking that the county followed state laws on processing absentee ballots ,
Associated Press reported Thursday.
According to AP, Chatham County Superior Court Judge , James Bass , did not provide an explanation for his decision Thursday at the close of a roughly one -hour hearing. The county includes the heavily Democratic city of Savannah .
The suit had raised concerns about 53 absentee ballots that poll observers said were not part of an original batch of ballots . But County elections officials testified that all 53 ballots had been received on time.
Both Trump and his Democratic opponent , Joe Biden , still had paths to winning the White House by hitting the magic majority threshold of 270 of the electoral votes awarded to whichever candidate wins the popular vote in a given state.
But momentum moved to Biden , who made a televised speech from his hometown of Wilmington , Delaware to say that “ when the count is finished , we believe we will be the winners. ”
By flipping the northern battlegrounds of Michigan and Wisconsin, and also winning formerly pro- Trump Arizona , Biden reached 264 electoral votes against 214 so far for Trump.
To reach 270, Biden hopes to add the six electoral votes from Nevada , where he had a small and shrinking lead , or , even better, the larger prizes of hard-fought Georgia or Pennsylvania .
However, Trump has so far accused his opponent of electoral fraud and threatened court action.
