Allegheny Co. Named In Trump Campaign's Latest Election Lawsuit

PITTSBURGH, PA — Allegheny County finds itself 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.

Allegheny 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.

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

Biden defeated Trump soundly in Allegheny 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 415,861 votes to Trump's 274,348. In 2016, Clinton had 366,934 votes in Allegheny County to Trump's 259,125.

Reporting by Justin Heinze/Patch.

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