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 3 will look at why Republicans are fighting so hard for stronger policies to prevent noncitizens from voting while Democrats claim it is a nonissue. Read Part 1 and Part 2.

One of Republicans’ top priorities in Congress is preventing noncitizen participation in elections, a problem that Democrats argue is nonexistent.