Judge grants Trump campaign’s request to extend mail voting in Pennsylvania county

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A judge quickly issued a ruling on Wednesday in favor of the Trump campaign in a lawsuit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, extending early on-demand voting in the purple, populous county until Friday.

Judge Jeffrey Trauger, who was appointed to the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas by former Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, wrote in a one-page order that election officials in the county wrongly turned away voters who were waiting in line for on-demand mail-in ballots, a violation of Pennsylvania’s election code.

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