Republicans, allies have blitzed the courts with voting, election lawsuits

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https://www.penncapital-star.com/campaigns-elections/republicans-allies-have-blitzed-the-courts-with-voting-election-lawsuits-tuesday-morning-coffee/

With the 2022 midterms little more than two months away, Republicans and their allies have blitzed the nation’s courts with election-related lawsuits, with more than half the legal actions attacking mail-in balloting.

Republican-affiliated groups filed 41 lawsuits through Sept. 16, compared to seven last year, and 13 by the same point in 2020, according to a new report by Democracy Docket, a group spearheaded by Democratic elections attorney Marc Elias.

The number of lawsuits filed by Democrats and their allies has remained relatively constant, with 35 actions filed so far this year, and 52 in 2021, the analysis showed.



But there “has been a jump in the total voting cases between years (76 so far in 2022 and 52 in 2021),” the analysis notes, adding that the “difference is explained by an increase in GOP activity in the courts (41 lawsuits so far in 2022 and seven in 2021).”

While Republicans and their allies proactively filed lawsuits in just seven instances last year, they were far from idle. Eighteen states enacted restrictive voting laws in 2021, sparking immediate litigation from civil and voting rights organizations, the Democratic Party, and the U.S. Dept. of Justice. National and state Republican organizations filed motions to intervene in nearly every case, the analysis showed.

[Mr.Bill]

1. Just tell them it will be investigated thoroughly.

Shouldn't take more than five or six years.