RNC abandons lawsuit against Montgomery County that could have slowed mail ballot counting

The Republican National Committee dropped a lawsuit against Montgomery County after acknowledging the county had completed adequate testing of ballots and machines before it mailed ballots to voters last month.

The RNC had sued the county last month, saying election officials had made ballots available before completing state-required logic and accuracy testing on voting machines. The county said at the time that it had completed all testing of ballots before making them available to voters and that it also tested the machines that count mail ballots after making ballots available in person but before mailing ballots out.

When the lawsuit was filed, the Pennsylvania Department of State criticized the suit as frivolous and said Montgomery County had completed all required testing before it printed ballots and made them available.

In a filing last week, the RNC dropped its request that Montgomery County stop sending mail ballots, agreeing that proper testing had taken place. The organization dropped the suit on Monday.



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