“What he has said is that we would like ultimately there to only be voting on Election Day.
Republican attorneys have filed an assortment of lawsuits across the county that vary in both what types of election rules they target and how seriously election law experts believe the case should be taken.
The legal fight against mail voting has taken GOP lawyers to states beyond the typical presidential battlegrounds.
In addition to the case targeting Mississippi’s post-election day mail ballot receipt deadline, Republicans filed a lawsuit challenging the major expansion of mail voting enacted by New York lawmakers last year.
To arrive at the claim that the states’ voter rolls are bloated, Republicans are using a formula that has previously been rebuked in federal court.
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