Trump Campaign Files Its First 2024 Election Lawsuit

Democracy Docket reports:

The Trump campaign is challenging Nevada’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline in its first election lawsuit of the year with the help of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Nevada Republican Party. With the road to 270 electoral votes almost certainly going through the state, Republicans are zeroing in on voting rules in Nevada.

The RNC and Trump campaign’s lawsuit — aimed at disenfranchising Nevada voters who cast mail in ballots — argues that the state’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline violates federal law. Currently, for the Nov. 5 election, mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day will be counted if they are received on or before 5 p.m. on Nov. 9, 2024.

If a ballot’s postmarked date cannot be determined, it will be counted if received on or before Nov. 8, 2024. The lawsuit alleges that counting ballots received after Election Day “dilutes” votes and “disproportionately harms Republican candidates and voters.”

Read the full article. The RNC has already separately filed six lawsuits challenging voters laws in other states, but this the first that the Trump campaign has formally joined.

BREAKING: The Trump campaign and the RNC file a lawsuit challenging Nevada’s ballot return deadline. Republicans claim that Nevada is violating federal law by counting ballots that are sent back by Election Day and received by officials shortly after. https://t.co/YgKYenhwjj

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