Lawyers for President Donald J. Trump in litigation over the Nov. 3 election results were asked to take part in a hearing with a Williamsport judge next week.

The “evidentiary” hearing centered on election fraud alleged by the Trump and his attorneys is scheduled to go before U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew W. Brann at 10 a.m. Nov. 19.

Brann granted permission to attorneys in the case to be present virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brann denied motions by state Sec. of State Kathy Boockvar and several defendants asking him to allow the proceedings in the case to be relocated to the Harrisburg district.

Meanwhile, a separate federal lawsuit filed by three election officials in Centre County and one in Montour County claims sophisticated and ground-breaking programs will determine the extent of illegal voters and illegal votes in the presidential election. Gov. Tom Wolf and Boockvar are defendants.

Lamar Prinkle, a retired pastor in Centre County; Theodore Dannerth, a farmer in Centre County; Lauren Danks, a nurse anesthestist in Centre County; and Casey Flynn, a corrections officer in Montour County, are the plaintiffs. They are voters who are involved in the process of certifying presidential electors.

The lawsuit alleges evidence of double vote counts, votes by ineligible voters, phantom votes, felon votes, non-citizen votes, illegal ballot harvesting and a pattern recognition to identify underlying subversion of the election results.

The plaintiffs allege sufficient evidence exists to place in doubt the presidential election results in several key counties.

In Philadelphia county, they allege some voters were advised they need to cure ballot defects while others were not. Additionally, poll watchers there allegedly were excluded from access to canvassing locations.

In Montgomery County, they allege a poll watcher overheard voters being advised to return later to vote under a different name that was registered in the poll book.

In Delaware County, voters that were recorded to have received mail-in ballots were given regular ballots and not required to sign the registration book, the suit alleges.

Poll watchers allegedly were granted extremely restricted to access to a back room counting area.

Moreover, ballots allegedly received on Election Day were not separated from ballots received after 8 p.m. that day.

In Allegheny County, voters allegedly were required to vote provisionally because the records indicated they had requested to vote by mail when they had not.

Throughout the state, voters allegedly received mail-in ballots without applying for them, in some cases receiving more than one.

Across the state, in-person voters allegedly were advised they must vote provisionally because they had asked for and recevied a mail-in ballot, when no such request was made.

In some cases, voters allegedly were denied the right to vote, according to the plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs said they will provide alleged evidence, upon information and belief, that sufficient illegal ballots were included in the results to change or place in doubt the Election Day results.

The alleged evidence will be in the form of expert reports based on data analysis comparing state mail-in/absentee, provisional, poll-book records with state vote registration databases, U.S. Postal Service records, Social Security documents, criminal justice records, department of motor vehicle records and other governmental and commercial sources.

The plaintiffs are seeking a decision by Brann before state certification of votes, which is scheduled for Dec. 8 and the Electoral College votes on Dec. 14.

As it stands, the election results count 3,362,873 ballots cast for Joe Biden, Democrat, for president, and 3,317,943 for President Donald Trump, a difference of 44,930 ballots, according to the election officials with Boockvar’s office.