The Trump campaign on Wednesday announced that it had filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Michigan to halt the counting of absentee and mail ballots cast in the run-up to the November 3 election.

The campaign claimed that in Michigan it “has not been provided with meaningful access to numerous counting locations to observe the opening of ballots and the counting process,” while deputy campaign manager Justin Clark said, “Bad things are happening in Pennsylvania,” claiming a similar lack of access to ballot locations. The campaign has not made copies of the complaints available yet.

Early on Wednesday morning the president had tweeted that Democrats were trying to steal the election, insinuating that the counting of absentee and mail ballots received prior to November 3 was somehow illegitimate, when in fact counting of lawfully cast ballots is perfectly legal. Later that day the president’s son Eric Trump tweeted a false claim that the president had won Pennsylvania’s electoral votes.

The Trump campaign is also seeking to intervene in a Pennsylvania court case regarding the counting of ballots that are postmarked by election day but received up to three days later. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request by state Republicans to review the state supreme court ruling allowing those ballots once already. In his motion the president argues, among other things, that he “should be granted intervention because [he] is the real party in interest,” as the person running for the office.

The Associated Press has reported that both Democratic and Republican poll watchers were on hand at a major ballot location in Detroit, while the Pennsylvania Department of State noted that “bipartisan teams of election officials” were working together to count the large number of absentee and mail-in ballots. It is unclear exactly where the Trump campaign claims Republican poll watchers are being shut out of the process.

Vice-president Joe Biden’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, issued a statement referring to the president’s efforts to halt the count as “outrageous, unprecedented, and incorrect.” She continued,

Nearly 100 million people cast their ballot before Election Day in the belief — and with the assurances from their state election officials — that their ballot would be counted. Now Donald Trump is trying to invalidate the ballot of every voter who relied on these assurances.

Dillon said the Biden campaign has teams of lawyers on standby to challenge the president’s claims, and promised that “they will prevail.”