Lawsuits Fly Over Election Rules and Who Gets to Vote

Lawyers are ramping up battles over who gets to vote and how those votes are counted in the presidential election. 

Democrats sued Georgia’s state election board Monday about its contentious new rule for certifying results. Republicans filed lawsuits in North Carolina and Arizona challenging voter registration procedures there. The Supreme Court also stepped into the fray: Last week the justices took a mixed approach over proof-of-citizenship rules in Arizona. 

Election lawyers say that the volume of lawsuits is an unprecedented surge from previous contests, but that the last-minute litigation follows a familiar playbook. 

The recent lawsuits return to battleground states where Donald Trump and his allies refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election—places where the race was won or lost on narrow margins and where the 2024 race between him and Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to be close.