A flurry of last-minute legal action over states' voting rules — despite more than 5 million people having already cast ballots — is sparking confusion among some voters over what they have to do to ensure their vote counts.
"I would say Democrats and voting rights group had some important victories, but on those cases that made it up the food chain, they have tended to do not as well," said Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine.
How such cases are decided could prove crucial after the election, when potential legal challenges to the outcome might end up before the Supreme Court. President Trump has already said that he thinks that will happen. "In the case an election issue is challenged in court, America cannot afford a tie vote," they wrote Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
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