After months of an aggressive legal strategy aimed at addressing what they saw as flaws in election rules, Republicans notched a pair of last-minute wins in court this week while fighting down to the wire in other voting cases just days ahead of Election Day.
In the past year, the RNC has filed 135 lawsuits in 26 states, according to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley, in addition to dozens of other Republican-backed challenges in battleground states. Some of those challenges in the months ahead of Election Day failed, leaving in place permissive absentee voting and ballot counting laws in key swing states.
But two — purging noncitizens from Virginia voter rolls and extending an early voting deadline in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, after a judge reviewed evidence that some voters had been improperly turned away from polling places — have yielded victories…
