PA:
In her ruling Thursday, Commonwealth Court Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon ordered that canvassing monitors be granted access to observe “all aspects” of the process from no more than six feet away, overturning a previous ruling from a lower court in Philadelphia. The Trump campaign had contended that its monitors were being kept too far away from votes being counted to view the process.
For instance, one Trump canvassing monitor told a Common Pleas judge in Philadelphia on Tuesday that some tables where clerks were counting votes in the Convention Center were up to 100 feet away from where he was stationed. Monitors were kept behind a waist-high metal fence to separate them from the operations.
Those restrictions applied to both Republican and Democrat poll monitors.
In her ruling Thursday, Commonwealth Court Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon ordered that canvassing monitors be granted access to observe “all aspects” of the process from no more than six feet away, overturning a previous ruling from a lower court in Philadelphia. The Trump campaign had contended that its monitors were being kept too far away from votes being counted to view the process.
For instance, one Trump canvassing monitor told a Common Pleas judge in Philadelphia on Tuesday that some tables where clerks were counting votes in the Convention Center were up to 100 feet away from where he was stationed. Monitors were kept behind a waist-high metal fence to separate them from the operations.
Those restrictions applied to both Republican and Democrat poll monitors.