Nevada Judge Agrees to Expedite GOP Suit Over 3,000 Ballots (3)

A federal judge in Nevada agreed to expedite a Republican request for a temporary restraining against the state’s process for counting mail-in ballots, as the Democratic National Committee moved to intervene in the case.

U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon in Las Vegas set a hearing for 2 p.m. local time on Friday to hear arguments in the case, which echoes unfounded claims made a day earlier by officials with President Donald Trump’s campaign.

Two Republican congressional candidates filed the suit Thursday, claiming observers don’t have proper access to the ballot-counting process and that Nevada’s advanced software system for scanning ...