Trump-Linked Suit Over Nevada Ballot Count Comes Up Short

Bins of surrendered mail-in ballots in a locker at the Clark County Election Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Nov. 6. 

Photographer: Roger Kisby/Bloomberg
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Two Republican candidates for Congress failed to produce evidence of wrongdoing in a lawsuit challenging Nevada’s procedure for tallying mail-in ballots, a federal judge ruled.

Their suit echoed unsubstantiated claims of “irregularities” in the swing state made by President Donald Trump’s campaign, which announced the allegations at a press conference in Nevada on Thursday.