A federal judge in Pennsylvania threw out a lawsuit Tuesday from Republican congressmen seeking a tougher verification process for overseas votes from U.S. citizens, including military officials.
Judge Christopher C. Conner in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania wrote in a ruling that the House members and current candidates for reelection did not have a right to bring the lawsuit, waited too long to file the litigation and failed to express in the case a “viable cause of action.”
Conner, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, added that the lawmakers provided “no good excuse for waiting until barely a month before the election to bring this lawsuit,” and that “hypothetical concerns” from lawmakers about the impact to their individual elections were “purely speculative.”
