In the most controversial presidential elections that are remembered, legal disputes even remain over where ballot observers can appear while the votes are counted.

Hundreds of lawsuits have already been filed, and many more are awaiting Tuesday’s vote, as Democrats and Republicans try to resolve in court a procedure we regularly decide through citizens who only vote.

Legal action spans a broad spectrum, ranging from a dispute over whether weapons are allowed near polling stations to more complex problems that have already been referred to the Supreme Court.

“The issue of litigation is unprecedented,” said Sophia Lin Lakin, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Election Rights Project. “There is a sense that there is a preference to raise anything possible. Possible misunderstandings or simply disagreements with regulations end up in court. It’s very different. “

Some three hundred lawsuits were filed in elections in dozens of states across the country, and scores remain unresolved a few days before Election Day. Many involve adjustments to general procedures given the coronavirus pandemic, which killed more than 227,000 people in the United States and sickened more than 8. 8 million.

Campaigns by President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, have quietly built armies of lawyers for the option of a protracted legal war landing in the Supreme Court.

Republicans’ last fear in some options are election observers, who volunteer for long-time candidates or political parties in elections. They monitor polling stations and local polling stations and take note of potential challenges to the voting or tabulation process.

The role of ballot observers or contestators has attracted more and more attention this year, as Trump has prompted unfounded accusations of voter fraud due to an increase in the number of ballots mailed. Trump suggested his supporters move on to ballots and “be very careful, “raising considerations about the imaginable intimidation of voters. He also falsely stated that election observers had been “evicted” from a polling station in Philadelphia, where he stated without evidence that “bad things were happening. “

In Nevada, the Trump crusade and state Republicans went to court to see how to avoid mail poll counting in the Las Vegas area. Republicans say observers can be close enough to staff and machines in the busy suburban Las Vegas counting between the middle and challenging signatures in the state’s largest and highest Democratic county.

Jesse Binnall, a LAWYER for the REPUBLICAN Party and the Trump campaign, said Wednesday in a ruling that the Counting Procedure in Las Vegas prevents what he called a “significant opportunity” to question the validity of published ballots.

“People who vote per user can have their ballots challenged,” Binnall said. “People who vote by mail can’t. “

Nevada Democrats called the trial a “pure and simple” effort to suppress votes in the state’s most varied county.

“Clark County is a blue county,” said Judge Gregory Zunino, Deputy Attorney General of the State of Nevada. “Frankly, they would like to exclude as many ballots or signatures as you can imagine in Clark County. “

Nevada Republicans and the Trump Crusade filed a complaint this week that it is not easy for the county registrar to disclose the names of democrats, Republicans and nonpartisan election officials, election observers and election observers, as well as key points in their paintings, commandos, and teams.

In Michigan, a candidate for the House of Representatives filed a lawsuit this week, claiming that coronavirus social estating regulations prevent pollsters from kindly overseeing the electoral process. .

Meanwhile, the New Mexico court this week rejected a lawsuit filed through the state’s Republican Party, alleging that supporters of the vote were unfairly denied oversight of the initial ballot verification procedure. – Called partisan challengers are excluded from the initial verification procedure unnecessarily, based on confidentiality rules.

In Philadelphia, Trump’s crusade filed a lawsuit this month that’s not easy for his crusaders to monitor others who register to vote or fill out ballots by mail at state polling stations on the battlefield. it did not allow such representatives to serve in electoral offices, and that decision was upheld by an appeals court.

Other lawsuits across the country come with preventing the counting of postcards if won after Tuesday, a ban on voting outside the pandemic, unrest with ballot boxes and strict witness requirements.

A ruling recently overstealed a Michigan ban that prevented the opening of firearms at the ballot box, and new fees continue to emerge: a guy from Maryland sued the Harford County Board of Elections after his arrest last week while seeking to vote without a face mask.

Pennsylvania officials have ordered that ballots won after Tuesday be separated after a pending Supreme Court challenge over whether ballots can be counted after Election Day. On Wednesday, the court rejected republicans’ request for the deadline to receive ballots by mail in North Carolina, meaning they can be won until November 12.

Prosecutions add to the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the vote, and experts say that legal lawsuits claiming that the procedure was certainly going to continue to arrive in the days after the election, but to have a chance of success, they will have to show genuine evidence violations of the law.

“You know you’re going to see those demands in one component because the president said the election has been fundamentally unfair since the last election,” said Justin Levitt, professor at Loyola Law School and former chief of elections in the Decomposing Of Justice. ‘The fact that you can sue by saying that the election is fundamentally unfair because,’ perhaps fraud, ‘is not something the courts pay attention to,’ he said.

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Associated Press editors Colleen Long in Washington, Ken Ritter in Las Vegas, Maryclaire Dale in Philadelphia and Ed White in Detroit contributed to this report.

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