“A crush of lawsuits in key swing states is boosting uncertainty as Election Day approaches and as absentee and early votes are already being cast in some states. The lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Texas and elsewhere are raising the chances of last-minute changes that could confuse voters and poll workers and damage confidence in the election’s outcome.”
“Legal battles could proliferate while the nation awaits vote counts that could take days or weeks to complete in some states. Election experts are already sounding alarms about the potential for post-election lawsuits based on the divergent handling of ballots by different counties in the same state, such as different standards for rejecting mail ballots or different varied processes for verifying signatures. ‘States that wish to avoid becoming objects of legal battles in the coming election must do their utmost to avoid these differences,” Alex Yasinsac and Douglas W. Jones, election security experts and computer science professors at the University of South Alabama and the University of Iowa respectively, wrote in a Des Moines Register op ed” – Washington Post.