In state courts across the country, there were 143 election-related lawsuits in 2018, 203 in 2020 and 272 in 2022, according to the preliminary findings of UW-Madison law professor and State Democracy Research Initiative co-director Miriam Seifter along with staff attorney Adam Sopko.
“An election litigation deluge may undermine voter confidence in the electoral system,” Seifter and Sopko wrote in media outlet The Conversation. “Litigation over every detail of the election process lays the groundwork for false narratives or subsequent challenges to the validity of an election.”