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Legal fights over election integrity are well underway with less than two months to go to the election. This Washington Examiner series, Legal Games, will look at Democratic attempts to make sure they don’t have a repeat of 2016. Republican lawyers, meanwhile, are still spooked by what happened in the aftermath of 2020. Part 1 will look at Democrats’ litigation.

Suffering from lingering effects of political post-traumatic stress disorder after the 2016 election was effectively decided by third-party candidates, Democrats are carefully advocating or challenging certain names on battleground-state ballots.

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