Trump Campaign Admits Arizona Lawsuit Wouldn’t Change Presidential Results

The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit alleging impropriety by poll workers in Maricopa County, who allegedly submitted voters’ ballots despite the tabulation machine initially showing an error message saying the voter had “overvoted” and selected multiple candidates for a single race, even if they had not.

The campaign alleged in their lawsuit that the issue affected “up to thousands” of voters and would yield “up to thousands of additional votes” for Trump and GOP candidates if fixed—but then admitted in a court hearing Thursday that there were only 191 ballots with overvotes in the presidential race that were at issue in the case, and approximately 961 votes for all federal, state and local races that involve partisan candidates.

The alleged problem may not have even resulted in any voter disenfranchisement, as none of the GOP’s witnesses who testified Friday could actually confirm their votes were not counted.

The Trump campaign said in court Thursday they would only contest the overvoted ballots and ask for them to be recounted if the number of votes was more than the margin between the two candidates in the county.

Maricopa County officials reported Friday that Biden has so far received 11,414 more votes than Trump in the county—with only 10,315 ballots statewide remaining to be counted—meaning that the 191 overvoted ballots would not have any impact on the outcome of the race.

The case could still potentially affect two local races, but the Trump campaign acknowledged that in the case of the presidential race, the vote total has made a ruling “unnecessary.”