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These laws are in place to give voters wiggle room in case there are issues with the mail or other unforeseen problems.
But four of those states passed legislation that require ballots to be received by the close of polls, regardless of when the voter mailed their ballot.
Trump signed an executive order, much of which is currently halted by a court order that sought to eliminate these grace periods altogether.
Parts of the Epstein document released from the Justice Department include hastily redacted information that could be easily read by simply copying and pasting some of the redacted sections.
So far, this new information has not shed any significant new light on the case of the disgraced financier, but it has raised more questions about the process and decision making.
behind how the DOJ decided to redact and release information.
In a letter to Congress earlier this week, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch said the agency created a protocol to properly and legally work through the thousands of documents related to Epstein.
He also said the agency is committed to full transparency.
The Social Security Administration implemented changes this year aimed at driving down wait times.
Staff was moved around to answer the agency's 1-800 number.
Despite massive agency-wide staff cuts, there was new technology rolled out allowing callers to get a call back instead of waiting on hold for help.
About 24 million callers out of 68 million opted for this and weren't factored in wait times.
This all led to a faster reported average speed of answer.
But the inspector general also found that about 25 million calls ended without the callers receiving the service they needed.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, whose questions prompted the report, says changes at the agency created a customer service mess.
These latest lawsuits have been filed against the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
So far, all the states being sued by the Trump administration are states the president lost in the 2020 election.