As described in my forthcoming Essay, the results of updating my data on the rates of election litigation to include 2023 and 2024:

The voting wars also brought a significant increase in litigation. The rate of election administration has tripled since Bush v. Gore compared to before it and remains consistently high, including through the 2023-2024 election season.

Figure 1. Sample of Election Litigation Cases Per Year, Before and After Bush v. Gore

The 2020 election, conducted in the midst of the Covid pandemic and with Donald Trump (unsuccessfully) challenging his presidential loss to Joe Biden in multiple lawsuits, led to a record amount of election litigation in a single year (2020), but the 2023-2024 election season overall saw a 14.3 percent increase over the 2019-2020 election season overall: There were 661 cases in the 2019 and 2020 election years in my sample (which does not cover all election litigation brought in those years), compared to 756 cases in the 2023 and 2024 election years. See Figure 2. It is remarkable that election litigation is even higher in the election after the pandemic than in the period before. My suspicion is that ongoing conflict surrounding the 2020 election created political incentives for Trump and his allies to file suits alleging the potential for fraud an irregularities in connection to the 2024 elections. 

Figure 2. Sample of Election Litigation Cases Per Two-Year Presidential Election Cycle, 2000 Election Season-2024 Election Season

Source: Hasen Election Litigation Database, 1996-2024, https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Hasen-Election-Litigation-1996-2024.xlsx