Bhubaneswar, Nov. 28 -- Washington: In a fresh setback to US President Donald Trump's efforts to reverse the presidential election result in Pennsylvania, a federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by his team, observing that "voters, not lawyers choose the president".

On Friday, the three-judge panel of the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia determined that the Trump campaign's claims of widespread voter fraud in the state "have no merit", Xinhua news agency reported.

"Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy," Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump appointee, wrote in the 21-page opinion.

"Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific a...