SALT LAGE CITY (AP) – Utah’s Republican governor and governor-elect on Thursday condemned the attorney general’s decision to invalidate the Texas case to invalidate the presidential race results in the four war-torn states where President Donald Trump lost. Gary Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, who will take over as governor in January, said it was not Utah’s responsibility to interfere in other state elections. They also said Attorney General Sean Reyes did not consult with them before signing the amicus summary. Herbert told reporters that candidates and campaigns are responsible for pursuing legal challenges related to the election, and that Utah’s involvement “wastes our taxpayers’ dollars.” One lawyer, who said there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the presidential election, said “sometimes we fail”. “There may have been voter fraud, but you really have to have the evidence,” Cox said. “I’m waiting for the promised smoking gun. Herbert and Cox were among the first Republicans to acknowledge Biden’s electoral victory. Reyes, a Republican, said Wednesday he would file a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate 62 cases. The Electoral College votes for Joe Biden, who was elected president from Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. “This case is not about the right to elections in Utah,” Reyes wrote in a statement Wednesday. “I have great faith in the bilateral work to ensure fair and credible elections in our state … On the contrary, we join this amicus for reasons where questions about process and constitutional integrity need to be answered nationally.” If those 62 election votes are invalid, it is enough to change the election to Trump. The case of Republican Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, repeats the false, proven, and unsupported allegations of mail-in ballots and voting on four battlefields. Courts have already dismissed several election complaints because Trump continued to tweet that the results should be overturned. Legal experts dismissed Texas filing as a long shot. Rice Condrell, Reyes’ spokesman, said Reyes had joined several Republican attorney generals at a “holiday lunch” hosted by the White House on Thursday. Biden spent a weekend in November after his own re-election in Nevada, another war-torn state he won. Reporting to the United States is a non-profit national service program that allows journalists to report secret issues in local newsrooms. .
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