Republicans file lawsuits to challenge overseas ballots -- including those coming from military personnel

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Source: The Independent

11 hours ago


Republicans have filed a flurry of lawsuits in battleground states to target ballots cast by American voters living abroad — including military service members. Critics warn the move is designed to cast doubt on the legitimacy of 2024’s forthcoming presidential election.

A federal lawsuit from a Pennsylvania Republican’s congressional delegation has accused the state of enabling fraudulent ballots by failing to verify the identities of voters who cast their votes while living overseas. And in Michigan and North Carolina, the Republican National Committee filed lawsuits alleging that the states have unlawfully allowed ballots cast by people who can’t claim residence in the state.

The lawsuits challenge the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, a 40-year-old federal law that affirms the right to vote to US citizens who live overseas. The law requires states to allow certain citizens to register and vote by mail in federal elections.

The lawsuits followed Donald Trump’s baseless claims on his Truth Social, where he raged without evidence on September 23 that Democrats are “working so hard to get millions of votes from Americans living overseas.” “Actually, they are getting ready to CHEAT!” he wrote.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ballot-rules-military-republican-lawsuit-voters-b2627475.html

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1. Of course; can't have 'too many' ballots.

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2. The irony being

that many of the military stationed overseas are GOP-indoctrinated voters.

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3. Right. Easy for congress to 'forget' that detail.

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4. 'Republican groups have filed nearly 100 election-related lawsuits across the US this year alone.'

I generally hear that about 60 lawsuits were won by the Dems last time.






...........Nearly 1 million overseas ballots were cast in 2020 elections.

In 2020, President Joe Biden increased his narrow margin of victory thanks to ballots from Americans abroad. Arizona counted more than 18,000 abroad ballots, and Biden won the state by roughly 10,000 votes. In Georgia, a state that Biden won by just under 12,,000 votes, officials there counted another 18,000 abroad ballots.

Republicans now are hoping to eliminate those narrow margins by invalidating overseas voters, McDevitt-Pugh told The Independent. Those legal arguments also are hoping to plant seeds of doubt among lawmakers and election officials, and “create a situation where they can not only subvert but challenge” the outcome, she said.

Republican-led litigation joins a nationwide campaign echoing Republicans’ 2020 threats to election results, raising frivolous legal challenges and spurious arguments to create an impression that elections are insecure, corruptly run, and ripe for fraud, according to democratic advocacy group Protect Democracy.

Republican groups have filed nearly 100 election-related lawsuits across the US this year alone.

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5. Republicans Have Electile Dysfunction

And they hate military voters. Why?

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6. I really hope Elias and co are on this!

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