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Voting lawsuits pile up across U.S. as election approaches

In this Sept. 8, 2020 photo, voting booths are kept socially distant at the Chesterfield, N.H. polling site. Associated Press

Associated Press the election may wind up before sor for what will come afterward. lots, reforming signature-match
WASHINGTON (AP) — They've a Supreme Court with a decidedly Republicans say they have re- laws, allowing ballot collection by
been fighting in Wisconsin and Republican tilt if his latest nominee tained outside law firms, along third-parties like community or-
Pennsylvania over the cutoff date is confirmed."This is a president who with thousands of volunteer law- ganizations and ensuring that bal-
for counting mailed ballots, and has expressed his opposition to ac- yers at the ready. Democrats have lots postmarked by Election Day
in North Carolina over witness re- cess to mail ballots and has also announced a legal war room of can count. Republicans warn that
quirements. Ohio is grappling with seemed to almost foreshadow the heavyweights, including a pair of those same requests open the door
drop boxes for ballots as Texas inevitability that this election will be former solicitors general. to voter fraud and confusion and
faces a court challenge over extra one decided by the courts," said The race is already regarded as are countering efforts to relax rules
days of early voting. Kristen Clarke, executive director the most litigated in American his- on how voters cast ballots this No-
Measuring the anxiety over the No- of the National Lawyers Commit- tory, due in large part to the mas- vember. "We're trying to prevent
vember election is as simple as tally- tee for Civil Rights Under Law. sive expansion of mail and ab- chaos in the process," RNC chief
ing the hundreds of voting-related That opposition was on display sentee voting. Loyola Law School counsel Justin Riemer said in an
lawsuits filed across the country in Tuesday during the first presidential professor Justin Levitt, a former Jus- interview. "Nothing creates more
recent months. The cases concern debate when Trump launched into tice Department elections official, chaos than rewriting a bunch of
the fundamentals of the American an extended argument against has tallied some 260 lawsuits arising rules at the last minute."
voting process, including how bal- mail voting, claiming without evi- from the coronavirus. The Republi- But there have been no broad-
lots are cast and counted, during dence that it is ripe for fraud and cation National Committee says it's based, sweeping examples of
an election made unique by the suggesting mail ballots may be involved in more than 40 lawsuits, voter fraud during past presidential
coronavirus pandemic and by a "manipulated." and a website operated by a chief elections, including in 2016, when
president who refuses to commit to "This is going to be a fraud like Democrat lawyer lists active cases Trump claimed the contest would
accepting the results. you've never seen," the president worth watching in about 15 states. be rigged and Russians sought to
The lawsuits are all the more im- said of the massive shift to mail vot- Democrats are focusing their ef- meddle in the outcome.
portant because President Donald ing prompted by the pandemic. forts on multiple core areas — se-
Trump has raised the prospect that The lawsuits are a likely precur- curing free postage for mail bal- Continued on Page 2