Trump-Linked Suit Over Nevada Ballot Count Comes Up Short (2)

Two Republican candidates for Congress failed to produce evidence of wrongdoing in a lawsuit challenging Nevada’s procedure for tallying mail-in ballots, a federal judge ruled.

Their suit echoed unsubstantiated claims of “irregularities” in the swing state made by President Donald Trump’s campaign, which announced the allegations at a press conference in Nevada on Thursday.

At an emergency hearing in Las Vegas on Friday evening, U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon denied the two candidates’ request for an injunction barring Nevada’s biggest county from using a machine with advanced signature-matching technology they said wasn’t catching mismatches.

The plaintiffs “haven’t demonstrated a ...