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Maryam Khanum

Trump Supporters Flood Pennsylvania with Bogus Ballot Challenges In Effort to Trash Hundreds of Legal Votes

Former President Donald Trump has frequently encouraged his supporters to challenge votes in swing states. (Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Activists and lawyers supporting the Trump campaign have challenged the validity of around 4,000 ballots within the battleground state of Pennsylvania just hours before election day.

Election officials from 14 different counties across the state reported receiving challenges to ballots, with challengers questioning whether or not the people that cast those ballots met the residency requirements of the swing state, reported the New York Times. By last Friday, which also happened to be the deadline to challenge an absentee voter's eligibility to vote, they had received over 4,000 challenges.

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