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As election day approaches, courts have been making a series of decisions that bear on how Americansโ€™ votes get counted in the 2024 election cycle.

Virginia, a critical swing state, sought the Supreme Courtโ€™s intervention yesterdayโ€”just eight days before Election Dayโ€”after two lower courts blocked its effort to purge non-citizens from its voter rolls. The Justice Department (DOJ) had sued the commonwealth and won an injunction over its purported violation of the National Voter Registration Actโ€™s prohibition on systematic attempts to clean up voter rolls 90 days before an election.

DOJ filed a similar lawsuit in Alabama, which resulted in a separate injunction by a federal judge. The same law was part of the Republican National Committeeโ€™s (RNC) challenge to Michiganโ€™s alleged failure to maintain its voter roles, but a federal judge dismissed the partyโ€™s lawsuit on Oct. 22.

Mail-in ballots have been a controversial issue, especially after their widespread use during the 2020 presidential election, with questions surrounding their reliability. Two ballot boxes were reportedly burned on Oct. 28 in Washington and Oregon. 

Two rulingson mail-in ballots have come from the Nevada Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the weeks leading up to the election. The first held on Oct. 28 that late-arriving ballots could be counted up to three days after the election, while the other held on Oct. 25 that the Constitution required ballots be counted on election day.

The RNC, which sought stricter limits on counting in Mississippi and Nevada, recently told The Epoch Times it was involved with more than 130 lawsuits across 26 states this election cycle.

The party also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which voted 5-4 to allow provisional ballots from individuals who improperly cast mail-in ballots.

Elon Musk, who endorsed former President Donald Trump, came under fire in Philadelphia, where the cityโ€™s district attorney sued to halt what he described as an โ€œillegal lotteryโ€ promoted by the billionaire. Muskโ€™s America PAC is giving away $1 million every day to a person who has signed a petition supporting the Constitution.

Other lawsuits have been filed over policies surrounding results certification, overseas voters, voting by convicted felons, mail-in ballots, and voter rolls. Georgia, another potential swing state, attempted to install seven new rules before the election, but each was struck down by a superior court judge earlier this month.

By Sam Dorman

Byย Epoch Times Staff

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