Chuck Darwin<p>Republicans have unleashed a flurry of ➡️ lawsuits challenging voting rules and practices ⬅️ ahead of the November elections, <br>🔥setting the stage for what could be a far larger and more contentious legal battle over the White House after Election Day.</p><p>The onslaught of litigation, <br>much of it landing in recent weeks, <br>includes nearly 90 lawsuits filed across the country by Republican groups this year. </p><p>The legal push is ⭐️already more than three times the number of lawsuits filed before Election Day in 2020, <br>according to Democracy Docket, a Democratically aligned group that tracks election cases.</p><p>🆘 Voting rights experts say the legal campaign appears to be an ⚠️effort to prepare to <a href="https://c.im/tags/contest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contest</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/the" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>the</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/results" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>results</span></a> of the presidential election after Election Day should Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, lose and 💥refuse to accept his defeat as he did four years ago. </p><p>The lawsuits are concentrated in swing states<br> — and key counties<br> — likely to determine the race. </p><p>Several embrace <a href="https://c.im/tags/debunked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debunked</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theories</span></a> about voter fraud and so-called stolen elections that Mr. Trump has promoted since 2020.</p><p>In Montgomery County, Pa., the state’s third-largest county, the party is seeking to ♦️force local officials to count ballots by hand, evoking debunked conspiracy theories about corrupted voting machines. 👀</p><p>A case filed by the Republican National Committee in Nevada this month <a href="https://c.im/tags/falsely" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>falsely</span></a> asserts that nearly 4,000 noncitizens voted in the state in 2020, <br>a claim that was rejected at the time by the state’s top election official, a Republican.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/politics/trump-2024-presidential-campaign-election-lawsuits.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-2024-presidential-campaign-election-lawsuits.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>