Midterms Could Head Toward Post-Election Legal WAR

Around here we count the calves once, in the fall, and nobody has ever needed a lawyer for it. The Daily Signal reports that more than a dozen states still count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, so control of Congress may not be settled until well after November. Alaska may keep counting until at least Nov. 18, and the Justice Department has sued to delay certifying a Peltola victory there. In California, a district court rejected a Justice Department demand to set aside mail-in votes from 20,000 likely noncitizens, and the 9th Circuit agreed. Bloomberg says those early cases preview the fights to come. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee countersued in D.C., because nothing says every vote counts like suing to keep counting. Count the ballots, not the lawsuits.