"There is no authority in the Pennsylvania Election Code for a 'secondary review' of absentee and mail-in ballots after those ballots are rejected during the canvass," the campaign claimed.

In a series of filings, the campaign pointed to a total of more than 8,000 ballots that were incomplete for various reasons, such as missing printed names, dates or addresses.

The Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia County will be holding a hearing on all of the appeals Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

"What they did in Pennsylvania was conduct, basically, an unconstitutional election," Murtaugh said. "Depending on where you were in the state and when you voted, you were treated differently."

Murtaugh claimed Tuesday that Democrat voters in Philadelphia who had problems with their submitted mail-in ballots were contacted by election officials and told to "come in and cast a provisional vote before Election Day."

"That is not allowed," Murtaugh said, adding that Republican voters "were not given that same opportunity."

"You cannot have an election and treat different voters differently within the same state," Murtaugh said. "That is a violation of the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution and it's a very, very, serious offense."

"And absolutely, we believe they are going to prevail on that suit, otherwise we wouldn't have filed it," he added.

The Trump campaign on Monday filed a lawsuit (pdf) against Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and seven county boards of election — Allegheny, Centre, Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Northampton, claiming that "almost every critical aspect" of the state's election was "effectively shrouded in secrecy."

It alleges that the Pennsylvania election process violated the Constitution by creating different standards of verification and transparency for mail-in and in-person voters, as well as disparate treatment of Republican and Democrat voters and poll watchers.

Trump campaign legal counsel Matt Morgan told reporters Monday that in Philadelphia and Allegheny, there were over 682,000 ballots that were tabulated outside the view of GOP observers who were entitled by law to review them.

He also said the razor thin margin in Pennsylvania is "very close" to the state's automatic recount rules, and that the lawsuit could "swing that."

David Shestokas, a Chicago-based lawyer who joined several dozen other lawyers and Allegheny County residents to poll-watch in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, told Just the News that ballot monitors "had no input and no ability to watch anything."

Shestokas described the setup to Just the News at what he said was a massive warehouse in downtown Pittsburgh.

"It was a huge warehouse facility," he said. "My guess is the whole place was 40,000 square feet. Poll counters were doing their work in an area of about 15,000-20,000 square feet."

At some point during the process — out of sight of poll watchers — the ballots were checked for "sufficiency," with workers ensuring that the addresses, dates and signatures were properly affixed to each ballot, Shestokas said.

Eventually ballots made their way back to a central processing area, but watchers were placed far enough away that they were more or less incapable of properly observing the process, he added.

"All of the folks who were observers for campaigns were maybe 15, 20 feet from many of the tables, in a coral," he said. "Other tables may have been 100-150 feet away. We were not allowed to go outside the corral in the one huge room."

Shestokas said ballots were eventually fed into scanning equipment in another, smaller room. Overall, he said, poll watchers were effectively unable to give the oversight for which they were present.

"We literally had no input and no ability to watch anything," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, each and every one of those ballots was opened illegally."

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