Washington (CNN) The series of lawsuits the Trump campaign has announced in multiple states amount to longshot legal arguments focusing on thin claims or affecting such a small portion of votes that they wouldn't decide the presidential election , several legal analysts say. In practical terms, the lawsuits mostly have the effect of fueling the Trump campaign's baseless attempts to undermine public faith in the validity of the election process as President Donald Trump seeks to stay in office. She pointed to a lawsuit in Georgia, where the Trump campaign announced Wednesday night over a poll worker mixing unprocessed and processed absentee ballots. Some legal challenges in Pennsylvania from the Trump campaign were quickly dismissed on Election Day, with Trump touting his appeals of those losses apparently as new cases on Wednesday. It challenges the validity of potentially several thousand votes cast in good faith by voters, but received by officials after the election through the mail.

Source: CNN November 05, 2020 16:52 UTC