Author: Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner

Republicans and Democrats are turning to their lawyers in the final 24 hours of the election as they look to courts to address last-minute fights about poll watching, malfunctioning machines, ballot counting rules, and more. Republicans have shown aggression in the final stages of 2024 compared to past years, but Democrats have risen to the occasion, resulting in both parties seeing…

A judge denied Missouri’s emergency request to prevent the Department of Justice from monitoring polling places in deep-blue St. Louis on Election Day, according to an order issued late Monday night. Judge Sarah Pitlyk, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said she was “not persuaded” by Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s eleventh-hour motion, noting that the DOJ…

The Republican National Committee sued election officials in Milwaukee on Monday, one day before the election, over allegations they have been unlawfully limiting poll watchers in at least three polling locations. RNC attorneys wrote in a complaint that the deep-blue city’s Election Commission limited the number of poll watchers permitted in Serb Hall, Good Hope…

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft brought a lawsuit Monday against the Department of Justice, alleging it overstepped its authority by arranging for federal officials to monitor polls in St. Louis on Election Day. Missouri attorneys wrote in a complaint on behalf of Ashcroft, a Republican, that state law “strictly limits” who is authorized to…

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended four blue Atlanta-area counties that opened election offices over the weekend to accept straggling absentee ballots, but he said Fulton County, in particular, should have communicated about it better. Raffensperger, a Republican, said he thought Gwinnett County election officials handled the process more transparently because they decided over the summer…

Fights between Republicans and Democrats about election fairness have been playing out in court all year in anticipation of the 2024 election. Some of the disputes have seen resolutions, but others remain pending or could be yet to come. Republicans have generally fought to combat voter fraud, while Democrats have focused more on expanding ballot…

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted on Friday an emergency request from Republicans to pause a lower court’s ruling that mail-in ballots with missing dates should still be counted, a move that leaves longstanding questions about undated ballots unresolved days before the election. In addition to the eleventh-hour stay, Republicans had also pleaded with the state’s highest court to…

The Supreme Court denied on Friday an emergency request from Republicans to block election officials in Pennsylvania from accepting certain provisional ballots in the 2024 election. The Supreme Court’s order came in response to the Republican National Committee and the Pennsylvania GOP asking the high court to pause a recent ruling from the left-leaning Pennsylvania…

Counting votes before, during, and after Election Day is a closely watched practice that has drawn both praise and criticism, depending on the state. Some states have taken days to produce election results, while others report their results almost immediately. Variables that affect the timeliness of each state include race margins, how many mail-in ballots…

A portion of ballots that are cast by mail in the 2024 election will inevitably contain deficiencies because of human error, but whether voters are afforded the chance to fix, or cure, their ballots’ problems depends on the state, or sometimes the county. These policy variations have been known to stir up controversy in recent elections because they are…