Halloween is over, but the election litigation is getting really scary

“Something wicked this way comes.” Those words from William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” capture a certain dread that takes hold of some of us tasked with covering the legal elements of the presidential election. 

Just as Halloween ended, things in the days leading into Election Day have begun to get...well, spooky. Call it election jitters, but some of us have been here before. 

More than 200 cases have been filed around the country before the election this year. In the last week...