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The leader of the Brexit movement, Nigel Farage, said that President Donald Trump should “keep up the fight” and challenge any mail-in ballot improprieties, noting that a similar postal voting system was fraught with fraud after its introduction in the United Kingdom.

Historians will marvel that Americans adopted a new voting method, in the midst of an election, that so clearly favored one party.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned of how election irregularities and the abandoning of processes that lend transparency in election process can erode Americans’ confidence.

The sad reality is that there are already legal ways for partisan actors to interfere with the election — not just through illegal fraud.

A Michigan judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign aimed at halting vote-counting in the state. 

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt decried changes to his state’s mail-in voting laws and subsequent decisions from a court that made it difficult for allies of President Donald Trump to monitor ballot-counting now underway.

President Donald Trump’s attorneys are seeking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant the president ability to join the Pennsylvania Republican Party’s pending lawsuit, which is seeking to challenge a three-day mail ballot deadline extension.

Marc Elias, the Democratic lawyer behind many of the voting changes causing havoc in the 2020 presidential election, is also responsible for hiring Fusion GPS to compile the “Russia dossier” to dig up dirt on Donald Trump in the 2016 race.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said in an update Wednesday morning that his team asked counties to get their election results counted today and assured Americans that “every legal vote” will be counted.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) said Wednesday morning that there are still “millions” of mail-in ballots yet to be counted in the battleground state, appearing to correct himself after giving a specific figure of “three million.”

Conservative radio host and litigator Mark Levin wrote Wednesday morning that many of the voting procedures that contributed to the unusual result in the 2020 election were both extraordinary and unacceptable.

President Donald Trump, addressing the uncertain election results early Wednesday morning, reminded the nation that he had predicted a contested result since Democrats had begun urging states to send mail-in ballots to millions of voters.

The key battleground state of Pennsylvania did not begin processing absentee ballots until Election Day morning, which means state election officials may only reach a final count by Friday at the earliest.

A state court in California found that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s exercise of emergency powers, including a vote-by-mail decree earlier this year, violated the constitutional separation of powers, though the decision will not affect the November election.

The 2020 cycle may be winding to a close, but former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is already preparing for a contracted legal battle that might stretch out well past Election Day.

Joe Biden’s campaign manager proclaimed on Monday that under no scenario would President Donald Trump be “declared the victor on election night.”

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that absentee ballots in the battleground state of Minnesota must be received by 8:00 p.m. on Election Day to be counted.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s top election official said Thursday that mail-in ballots ballots received by counties in the presidential battleground state within three days after polls close will count, although she also cautioned that more litigation could change that.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will allow absentee ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to nine days after Election Day.

Thousands of mail-in ballots requested by voters in Butler County, Pennsylvania, could be lost, a county official estimated on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) condemned the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett as “an attack on the Affordable Care Act” and “reproductive rights,” aka, abortion.

The Supreme Court has voted 5-3 to deny a request by Republicans to overturn a decision by Democratic authorities in North Carolina to allow mail-in ballots to be counted nine days after Election Day and without a witness signature.

United States Postal Service has lost an unknown number of mail-in ballots that were sent to voters ahead of the Nov. 3 election, the bureau of elections director for Butler County, Pennsylvania, said Wednesday, reports The Butler Eagle.

Here are five states where voter fraud may impact the election.

Pennsylvania county election boards were directed Wednesday by the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to segregate all mail-in and civilian absentee ballots received between 8:00 p.m. on Election Day and 5:00 p.m. on Nov. 6.

Americans have cast over 71 million ballots in the upcoming election, comprising more than 50 percent of the total votes counted in the 2016 election, according to the U.S. Elections Project.

A federal judge in South Carolina ruled Tuesday that local election authorities cannot discard absentee ballots whose signatures do not match those on file.

A large number of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania have not been returned by voters who requested them, according to the latest numbers from the commonwealth on Tuesday.

A former United States Postal Service (USPS) worker faces federal charges for allegedly throwing away mail that included over 100 absentee ballots in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

You can change your early vote in some states, though not “most” states. You should check state and local rules.

The Supreme Court could soon revisit a challenge to a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision on extending the deadline for the receipt of absentee ballots — this time, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the Court, possibly casting a tie breaking vote.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court sides with GOP in refusing to extend Wisconsin deadline for absentee ballots received after Election Day.

Joe Biden said his campaign has assembled the “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics” in a podcast published Saturday — an unfortunate slip of the tongue, as the presidential election will likely see major legal battles over the legitimacy of millions of ballots cast via mass-mail voting.

Tens of millions of Americans have already cast their votes in the presidential election, according to a running analysis from the Elect Project.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously Friday on a key concern surrounding an avalanche of mail-in ballots in the presidential battleground state, prohibiting counties from rejecting ballots because the voter’s signature on it may not resemble their signature on their registration form.

The 4th Circuit gave Democrats a win in North Carolina — but the dissenting judges suggested an urgent appeal to the Supreme Court.