United States: Republicans and their allies are gearing up for the November 5 US presidential elections, lodging legal challenges across the states so as to ensure that potential electoral losses are opposed and Democrats are forced into a defensive posture for fear of post-vote chaos.
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However, according to the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, “The 2020 election was free, fair, and secure, and Democrats are making sure that 2024 is the same,” Reuters reported.
Republicans are currently party to 130 lawsuits they claim are aimed at ensuring that votes are tallied correctly and people do not vote unlawfully after former President Donald Trump in 2020 falsely insisted defeat to President Joe Biden was marred by fraud.
The new VP, Kamala Harris, and the former Republican president, Trump, are neck and neck, especially in seven swing states, with 94 out of the 270 Electoral College votes a candidate requires for the victory.

Democrats and their allies suggest that their opponents just want to create confusion about the election’s validity after more than 60 lawsuits by Trump and his supporters in the wake of the 2020 defeat were unsuccessful.
Instead, Democrats are primarily relying on the credibility of established structures in safeguarding credible elections while simultaneously stemming perceived threats to voting rights or certification processes.
Another reason Democrats are undisturbed is that the actual statewide officials overseeing the elections in the swing states have rejected Trump’s conspiracy theories of fraud.
This comprises governors, attorneys general, and secretaries of state from both parties.
Unlike Republicans, Democrats largely united in saying that the election administration was not biased in 2020 and is likely to be again in the future.
They have also been supported by increases in mail and early voting in the swing states that will determine the outcome of the election.
According to Justin Levitt, a former adviser to the Biden administration on voting access and a law professor at Loyola Marymount University, “Democrats, and groups favoring or aligned with Democrats, are mostly playing defense at the moment,” Reuters reported.
Democrats’ plan was evident on Monday when a state judge in Georgia opined that local officials should be legally obliged to certify elections – much to the chagrin of a Republican county election administrator who had had the temerity to claim that she had the discretion not to certify an election if she had concerns about the process.
“We have protected our elections from far-right Republicans trying to disrupt them,” as per the Harris campaign in her Tuesday statement on the Georgia decision.