Efforts challenging election results and attacking voting rights peaked last year, but courts ruled against the majority of them
. The lawsuits included efforts to challenge election results, attacks on mail-in voting and attempts to undermine the administration of elections. The Democratic party, the report found, filed only six voting lawsuits in 2022 and all sought to protect or expand the right to vote.
“Evidently, the GOP establishment is becoming more litigious than ever and is turning to courts to achieve its anti-voting and anti-democracy ends,” the report says. In addition to the lawsuits filed by the party itself, 25 lawsuits were filed by GOP candidates without the official backing of their party. Many of these candidates were election deniers, like Mark Finchem in Arizona who challenged the results of the secretary of state race he lost in November.
Many of the anti-voting lawsuits were based on what Democracy Docket called “fringe” theories. The parties that filed them often promoted the ”big lie” or relied on conspiracy theories to challenge election results or limit voting opportunities. Several lawsuits continued to challenge the results of the 2020 election two years later, including one lawsuitin September by a group of Republicans seeking to decertify the election 648 days after it was certified.
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