Republican Party sues over absentee ballots, voter rolls in battleground states [View all]

The Republican National Committee and its lawyers are going state to state seeking to influence what laws and procedures will govern the November election.

The RNC, which has been overhauled with loyalists to former President Donald Trump, is reviving failed legal arguments from 2020 as it seeks to get involved in dozens of state and federal lawsuits. The cases are in all the major battleground states for 2024, but also in deep-red and deep-blue states.

Some of the biggest ongoing cases target how absentee ballots are processed and who should be removed from voter rolls. If the cases are successful, fewer people will be allowed to vote in November, and fewer absentee ballots will be counted.

In some cases, the RNC joins with a state party to sue a state or county official. In others, the national party seeks to intervene to support or oppose a case that an advocacy group brought first. The RNC also files friend-of-the-court briefs, seeks to get involved in rulemaking processes, or announces when it seeks public records as part of its own investigation.




https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/27/rnc-targets-absensee-ballots-voter-rolls-2024/73428152007/