TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Nov 3, 2020

Hundreds of lawyers around the country are at the ready to fight legal battles over which ballots can be counted and how the process should unfold, the ABA Journal reports. According to a New York Times article, the deployments, which involve hundreds of lawyers from each side, "go well beyond what has become normal since the disputed outcome in 2000, and are the result of the open efforts of President Trump and the Republicans to disqualify votes on technicalities." Some lawyers believe that unclear postmarks could be the 2020 equivalent of the “dimpled chads” from the 2000 Florida recount that ended up at the U.S. Supreme Court.