US Democrat Joe Biden has been certified as the winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania, culminating three weeks of vote counting and a string of failed legal challenges by President Donald Trump, state officials say.
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The Pennsylvania State Department "certified the results of the November 3 election in Pennsylvania for president and vice president of the United States," Governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat, tweeted.
"As required by federal law, I've signed the Certificate of Ascertainment for the slate of electors for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris," Wolf wrote.
The State Department said Wolf's "certificate of ascertainment" has been sent to the national archivist in Washington DC.
Pennsylvania's electors, a mix of elected Democrats, party activists and other staunch Biden backers, will meet in the state Capitol on December 14.
The results show Biden and Harris with 3.46 million votes, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence with 3.38 million, and Libertarian Jo Jorgensen with 79,000.
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