Election Litigation Could Shape The Race In Battleground States. We Won’t Know Until The Votes Are Cast.

Litigation could be a defining factor in the presidential race — or it could mean nothing.

For a number of election-related lawsuits across the country, the stakes are high but the potential impact is unknown. Election law experts say it’s too soon to tell whether any of the recent rulings or pending cases will have anything like a determinative effect on the election.

“It’s mostly wait and see for me,” Derek Muller, who teaches election law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, told the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation.

A Georgia judge blocked on Tuesday a new rule from the state’s election board requiring counties to hand-count ballots.

In another closely-watched case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said in an Oct. 7 ruling it would not decide issues related to mail in ballots this close to the election, including a bid to prevent counties from tossing mail in ballots with an incorrect date.

“Any one of these decisions could end up having a substantial impact in the election, or, they could all be meaningless,” election law attorney Audrey Perry Martin told the DCNF, noting the rulings could still be appealed. “However, given how close the polls are this year it is possible, although not likely, that the results of one of these cases will affect enough ballots in a battleground state to be determinative in the Presidential election.”