From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Molly Kaplan, your host.

The Trump campaign is pursuing legal challenges in battleground states as the pathways to President Trump's re-election narrows.

These challenges involve attempts to

stop or challenge the vote count. And because of the record number of mail-in ballots cast

during the pandemic, the votes affected are disproportionately those of mail-in ballots.

91.6 million Americans requested a mail-in ballot.

The Trump campaign filed a lot of lawsuits since the election and these deal 91.6 million Americans requested a mail-in ballot.

The Trump campaign filed a lot of lawsuits since the election, and these deal mostly with the vote count,

particularly in states that are closed or that Trump is behind, believe they may be able to catch up.

Across the country, county registrars are in overdrive, processing the record-breaking number of mailed-in ballots.

And what's noteworthy about the high volume of mail-in ballots is that any attempt to discount them would not only cast a blow to democracy, it would disenfranchise communities of color.

Counting every mail-in ballot is at heart a matter of racial justice.

We know this because last week, the ACLU's analytics team published a report, showing that

communities of color voted by mail at higher rates than white people in key counties in the

battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

To help us understand these numbers, we talked to Lucia Tian, ACLU's chief analytics officer.

So I think as most folks are aware, this is a very special year when it comes to the election with the COVID-19 crisis.

A lot more people, a lot more voters are choosing to vote by mail. And that is true in critical states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, where historically there hasn't been as much vote by mail as this year. The other pattern that

we're seeing in the vote by mail is that, and this is from survey results prior to the election,

leading up to the election, in those four states, we're seeing that people of color are

planning to vote by mail at much higher rates than white people.

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