The campaign of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday won a lawsuit to extend early voting in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
"PENNSYLVANIA LAWSUIT VICTORY," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley wrote on X. "We just won the Trump Campaign/RNC lawsuit against Bucks County, PA. We will now have extended early in-person mail-voting through November 1st — three extra days. We will keep fighting. Go vote! Stay in line!"
The Trump campaign sued Wednesday morning after long lines on the final day of in-person voting in suburban Philadelphia led to complaints that voters were being disenfranchised by an unprepared election office.
The lawsuit comes amid a flurry of litigation and complaints over voting in a battleground state that is expected to play a central role in the presidential race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
In Bucks County, the Trump campaign lawsuit said people who were in line by Tuesday's 5 p.m. deadline to apply in-person for a mail ballot should have been allowed to get a ballot, even after the deadline. However, Bucks County's election office denied voters that right and ordered them to leave, the lawsuit said.
"This is a direct violation of Pennsylvanians' rights to cast their ballot — and all voters have a right to STAY in line," the Trump campaign said in a statement.
Unlike some other states, Pennsylvania does not allow early voting on voting machines in polling places.
But Bucks County, like other counties in Pennsylvania, allows voters to apply for a mail-in ballot in-person at the elections office and receive it there, a time-consuming process strained to the limit by Trump's exhortations to his supporters to get out and vote before Tuesday's deadline. Voters can also fill it out and hand it in at the office.
Voters waited up to three hours on Tuesday. Those still in line at 5 p.m. were told to go home, the lawsuit said.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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