There are a lot of superlatives you could throw at the 2020 election.

You could call it the most expensive campaign so far.

Some are predicting the highest turnout in generations.

But for Rick Hassan, election law expert, he's focused on the fact that 2020 is on track to be the most litigated election he's ever seen.

So there have been hundreds of lawsuits this election cycle, but how many are still active? Do you even know?

I don't know, but, you know, active is a kind of a misleading term because there are lots of suits

that are filed just in case something pops up.

One of these just-in-case lawsuits looks to ban curbside voting. Others look to create tighter

deadlines for mail-in ballots. Rick says, right now, the way to think about these lawsuits

is as an elaborate pre-game hedge on the Republicans part.

If the election's close, you're going to be hearing a lot more about them.

But if Biden wins by 6%, as some of the polls say he's going to, then I think a lot of these lawsuits go away.

It's not as though they're going to be revived. And suddenly in a not-close election, there's going to be the courts overturning it.

It's funny. I hadn't thought about it as that kind of built-and-suspenders approach. I of like, well, got to get a lawsuit on

the docket for that so that we can, you know, if it's close there, we have something to lean on.

Yeah, well, I mean, it's just, it's not a rational way to run an election, but there are so

many things that are irrational about how we run our elections.

And when I've spoken to election experts in other countries,

they just don't get it.

They don't understand why it is that we've got one political party

that thinks the only way they can win is

if they make it harder for people to register and to vote.

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