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(NewsNation) — With conscionable 2 days until the presidential election, much than 77 cardinal Americans person already formed their votes amid mounting ineligible challenges and concerns astir predetermination integrity.
In Iowa, a federal justice ruled the authorities tin proceed challenging hundreds of ballots from imaginable noncitizens, a determination critics accidental threatens the voting rights of caller U.S. citizens. Recent polling shows Vice President Kamala Harris starring successful Iowa by 3 percent points.
Legal battles are intensifying successful cardinal plaything states, with some parties filing lawsuits challenging assorted aspects of the predetermination process. The Republican National Committee has filed 135 lawsuits crossed 26 states implicit the past year, chiefly concentrated successful 7 battleground states representing 93 electoral votes.
In Pennsylvania, considered a important plaything state, the Trump run secured a ineligible triumph erstwhile aboriginal voting was extended successful Bucks County aft Republican voters reported being turned away. The state's Supreme Court besides ruled successful favour of Republicans by rejecting mail-in ballots without handwritten dates for the 2024 election.
"I deliberation those cases are indicative of this wide strategy, which is benignant of propulsion spaghetti astatine the partition strategy successful challenging the integrity of our elections," said Danielle Lang, Senior Director for the Voting Rights Program astatine Campaign Legal Center. "It failed successful 2020. They're getting a caput commencement this time, but it's going to neglect present arsenic well, and the voters volition determine this election, not governmental actors oregon litigation."
A Trump-aligned radical is reportedly preparing to situation this year's predetermination results, citing concerns astir elector fraud without providing evidence. If either campaigner contests the results, they could record lawsuits oregon petition recounts, perchance starring to Supreme Court involvement.
The concern echoes the aftermath of the 2020 predetermination erstwhile erstwhile President Donald Trump filed aggregate lawsuits challenging the results. The Supreme Court declined to perceive respective of these cases, efficaciously upholding little tribunal rulings and the predetermination outcome.
Election officials and instrumentality enforcement are presently preparing for imaginable threats astatine polling locations arsenic Americans explicit increasing interest implicit predetermination denialism.
