The Trump campaign (along with the Republican National Committee and the Nevada Republican Party) has already filed an election lawsuit challenging the Silver State’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline. https://twitter.com/NevadaCurrent/status/1786545817446396147 From the Nevada Current:
Nevada law allows for mail ballots postmarked on Election Day to be accepted and counted if they are received by county election officials within four days.
This year, Election Day is Nov. 5, meaning ballots postmarked on or before that date must be accepted and counted if they are received by election offices by 5 p.m. on Nov. 9.
Plaintiffs in the new lawsuit argue that practice violates federal law and, as a result, “valid, timely ballots are dilated by untimely, invalid ballots.” They are asking the court to block the counting of any mail ballots received after Election Day.
Other nearly identical suits in Illinois and North Dakota filed last year have already been dismissed (by Trump-appointed judges!). Expect more of these lawsuits to be filed in the 19 states and territories that require ballots to be counted after election day provided they’re post-marked by or on Election Day. Even if Trump loses them all, he’s still sowing seeds of doubt in the election process. In October 2020, Trump sued the state to try to stop the counting of mail-in ballots. https://twitter.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1786493165857304757
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