Election Overtime: 6 States With Voting Litigation, Controversies

The presidential election has continued into overtime in the courts on multiple fronts as President Donald Trump declines to concede the contest to Democratic challenger Joe Biden. 

Even as states kept counting ballots, no state had certified results, and lawsuits began to work their way through the courts, major media outlets announced four days after Election Day that the former vice president had won the presidency by exceeding the necessary 270 electoral votes. 

Biden now leads by varying margins in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin, most of which had showed Trump ahead on election night. 
To explain what’s happening in the courts, here is an overview of the litigation and related election controversies in the most contentious states. 

1. Pennsylvania 

20 electoral votes

Vote spread: Biden leads Trump by about 63,000 votes.

—A Pennsylvania appeals court delivered a victory Thursday to the Trump campaign by blocking mail-in votes by anyone who didn’t provide required identification by the Nov. 9 deadline. 

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, sought to give voters who mailed in ballots more time to fulfill the ID requirement, beyond the deadline–a full six days after Election Day. 
Shortly before the Nov. 3 election, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat who oversees elections in the state, pushed the date further back.