The Democrats and their comrades in the fake news constantly claim that since there wasn’t widespread fraud proven in elections, courts don’t have to do anything about election lawsuits. However, that was never the standard in the law prior to 2020, when judges often overturned elections for small glitches. After 2020, I believe many election lawsuits were assigned to judges who would come up with creative ways to avoid using the correct standard, such as claiming laches or standing-barred lawsuits. In Arizona, for example, almost every election lawsuit assigned since 2020 has gone to one of these judges, despite the fact that there were many conservatives on the bench, having been appointed Republican governors for years.

Fortunately, there have been a handful of honest judges since 2020 who applied the correct standard. Iowa District Court Judge Patrick A. Tott went over the standard extensively in his opinion on an election lawsuit in 2020. Republicans sued Woodbury County for sending out 56,000 ballot absentee request forms (ABRs) with the voters’ information already preprinted on them. Filling in this information in advance violated the law. The county auditor argued that sending the voters a notice that the request forms were sent in violation of law and could not be used would cost extra money, and claimed that the GOP did not have standing to sue.

A typical election judge after 2020 would have rubber-stamped the auditor’s position. Not Tott. He had no problem finding the GOP had standing to bring election lawsuits. “The Plaintiffs clearly have an........

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