Legal challenges and accusations of fraud are just a couple of the issues seeding doubt about a clear winner in the presidential race on Election Day.
鈥淢y advice for voters this year is patience,鈥� said Ken Miller, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
According to Miller, news networks may be more uncertain this year about calling a winner on election night since counting up ballots in key states .
That shouldn鈥檛 undermine the integrity of the election process, Miller said, but it may add fuel to President Donald Trump鈥檚 unsubstantiated argument that absentee voting and early voting .
鈥淲e have in an incumbent, someone who鈥檚 been trying to undermine the integrity of absentee voting and other forms of early voting, and so, this would give him more leverage with that type of messaging,鈥� Miller said.
In the Mountain West, one lawsuit is complicating things further. The Trump administration is challenging the legitimacy of the mail-ballot validation process in Nevada鈥檚 most populous county.
鈥淥ur goal is to have real voters voting in this election. We want to make sure there鈥檚 no fraud,鈥� said Adam Laxalt with the Trump campaign.
The campaign and Nevada Republicans assert that Clark County election officials鈥� oversight on voter signatures is lacking. They want the county to submit a new plan that allows for during the signature verification process.
A judge to stop ballot counting outright but will hold a hearing on the lawsuit this week. Pausing the count could delay results in the battleground state.
Early voting this year is eclipsing 2016 numbers .
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