[Just the News] Long after former President Donald Trump dropped his legal challenges to the 2020 election, some courts in battleground states are beginning to declare the way widespread absentee ballots were implemented or counted violated state laws.The latest ruling came this month in Michigan, where the State Court of Claims concluded that Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's instructions on signature verification for absentee ballots violated state law.
Benson had instructed local election clerks a month before the Nov. 3 election to start with a "presumption" that all signatures on absentee ballots were valid and only reject those that had "multiple significant and obvious" inconsistencies. Republicans and one election clerk challenged her instructions in court.
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