USA Today: Expect lawsuits if election results are close. Here’s where they’ve been filed so far.

11.3.2020 / By Kevin McCoy
USA Today: Expect lawsuits if election results are close. Here's where they've been filed so far.

Pennsylvania's voting code allows but does not require the so-called ballot "curing" procedure used by the Montgomery County Board of Elections, said Suzanne Almeida, the interim director of the Pennsylvania branch of Common Cause, a government watchdog organization and democracy advocate. "This is another attempt to cast out perfectly valid votes,” Almeida said during an Election Day conference call with reporters.

President Donald Trump vowed during the closing days of his reelection campaign that Republican lawyers would watch Pennsylvania’s voting and potentially file lawsuits about alleged violations.

Before noon on Election Day, a GOP challenge in the state’s Eastern District federal court seemingly made good on the promise.

The Montgomery County Board of Elections, near Philadelphia, improperly checked mail ballots received before Tuesday, alleged the lawsuit filed on behalf of Kathy Barnette, a Republican congressional candidate, U.S. military veteran and author. Elections officials, the lawsuit claimed, gave some voters whose ballots had errors an opportunity to refile before Election Day voting began. …

Pennsylvania’s voting code allows but does not require the so-called ballot “curing” procedure used by the Montgomery County Board of Elections, said Suzanne Almeida, the interim director of the Pennsylvania branch of Common Cause, a government watchdog organization and democracy advocate.

“This is another attempt to cast out perfectly valid votes,” Almeida said during an Election Day conference call with reporters.

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