The legal wars over election rules are raging even as voters around the country cast ballots. And several recent efforts by groups aligned with former President Donald J. Trump to challenge voting rules have been coming up short in federal and state courts.
Judges in a number of political battlegrounds and other states have rejected legal challenges this month to voter rolls and procedures by Republicans and their allies.
The Nebraska State Supreme Court ruled that election officials cannot bar people with felony convictions from voting after their sentences are served.
A Michigan state judge rejected a Republican attempt to prevent certain citizens living abroad, including military members, from being eligible to cast an absentee ballot in that swing state.
And a federal judge in Arizona rejected a last-minute push by a conservative group to run citizenship checks on tens of thousands of voters….
Republicans say they are far from losing their broader battle, notching dozens of legal victories over the past year, including a win on Friday when a federal appeals court threw into question a Mississippi law requiring officials to count absentee ballots received by mail up to five days after Election Day.
In other cases, Republican groups have successfully sued over what they contended were efforts to bolster the process for scrutinizing potentially questionable mail ballots in Michigan. They were also successful in an attempt to disallow the use of digital student IDs as a valid form of voter identification in North Carolina….