The Democratic National Committee is calling for judges in Michigan and Nevada to throw out lawsuits related to voter rolls and to mail-in ballots.

On behalf of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, the Democratic National Committee filed three amicus briefs regarding lawsuits filed by the Republican National Committee in the two battleground states. The DNC said the “dangerous” and “flawed” lawsuits are just attempts by former President Donald Trump and the RNC to erode the public’s confidence in election integrity come November.

The two lawsuits suggest the number of active voters in key counties in those states are “suspiciously high” and are calling on election officials to cancel voter registrations. In addition, the DNC is asking the court to dismiss a challenge from Republicans regarding the guidance that Michigan’s secretary of state gave to local election clerks to verify signatures on ballots.

The DNC’s amicus brief in Michigan responding to the voter roll lawsuit said Republicans filed several lawsuits in the state seeking to invalidate election results after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.

“This case fits that dangerous pattern of unsubstantiated election-related claims, which serve only to undermine public confidence in the electoral process,” the brief noted about the RNC’s lawsuit. “In reality, the greatest threat to public confidence in the integrity of our elections is not fraud or voter-roll maintenance, but unfounded attacks on our elections themselves.”

In Nevada, the DNC’s brief also said the RNC’s lawsuit is “designed less to address any real (much less substantial) issue with Nevada’s voter registration lists, than to sow public distrust in the security and integrity of our electoral systems.”

“This lawsuit is not meant to protect the integrity of upcoming elections, but instead to provide the RNC with ammunition to undermine the general election’s results,” the brief read. “Indeed, former President Trump is already asserting interference with the 2024 general election, months before a single vote has been cast or counted.”

Another lawsuit in Nevada targets the state’s 2021 mail-in voting law. The lawsuit aims to block the counting of any ballots received after Election Day. The RNC lawsuit claims that counting ballots received after Election Day “dilutes honest votes” and “disproportionately harms” GOP candidates and voters since Democrats are more likely to vote by mail than Republicans.

So far, the RNC is pursuing more than 80 election-related lawsuits.

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