Judge smacks down GOP effort to overturn weekend processing of swing state mail ballots

A federal judge has turned away a Republican Party lawsuit trying to curtail the processing of mail-in ballots in Georgia, reported Politico's Kyle Cheney on Tuesday.

The Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit alleging Georgia counties illegally accepted absentee ballots over the weekend.

The court, however, rejected this assertion — and slammed the GOP, saying the complaint was missing a "basic level of statutory review and reading comprehension."

Additionally, wrote Cheney, "The judge says the RNC's argument that the counties somehow prevented poll watchers from being present during weekend hours is a 'red herring' and that some of these counties have done this perfectly legal and well known process for years." And he added that to give the GOP the relief it's demanding would violate "my oath," as well as state law and the U.S. Constitution.

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This marks the latest failure in a long string of litigation from the GOP this year to try to curtail the voting process in battleground states around the country, as the party has shifted its resources from traditional get-out-the-vote operations to poll watching and litigation, to prepare for former President Donald Trump's baseless belief that the vote will be rigged against him.

Many of these lawsuits also concerned voter registration, specifically the accusation that states were failing to keep noncitizens off the voter rolls. The GOP filed such a lawsuit in Nevada, but it was rejected.

Not all of their litigation has failed, however; in Virginia, the Supreme Court, without offering any explanation, overruled lower courts that had blocked GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin's effort to purge voter rolls during the 90-day "quiet period" preceding the election, allowing it to continue.