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A fringe attack on voting rights just got four votes on the Supreme Court

Fulton County elections workers process absentee ballots at the new Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center on November 4, 2024, in Union City, Georgia. | Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images The premise of the Republican Party’s lawsuit in Watson v. Republican National Committee is that three 19th-century federal laws require thousands of lawfully cast ballots to be tossed in the trash — and somehow no one noticed this fact for the better part of two centuries. In a nonpartisan judiciary, the case would have never reached the Supreme Court. It would have been unanimously r...