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In minutes, well talk to the attorney general of the state in dispute but our coverage starts with cnns jessica schneider who listened to the supreme court oral arguments today on why this case could be the most important case in the history of our american democracy. >> reporter: who controls u.s. elections? thats the central question before the supreme court today. its a case that revolves around an obscure legal theory that says state legislatures should have the final say on redistricting, n...

Rules and laws to begin with so things are already messy and that was even before you threw in 2020s election conspiracy so explain whats at stake here? could this case muddy things up even more? >> reporter: it definitely could. thats the warning from some court watchers here. the outcome could up end the way elections are currently run. you know, we did hear in these arguments though some pushback from several conservative justices that maybe republicans are pushing this theory just a bit too ...

Kavanaugh, expressing concerns that some republicans are taking their arguments too far. what republicans are pushing here is this idea that state legislatures have unchecked power to control election procedures and restrict of districtic, and state courts and state constitutions have no role in checking that power. thats something that justice brown expressed concern about. >> mr. thompson, just following up on what was just mentioned, i guess what i dont understand is how you can cut the state...

Vote. who knows what well see in a final opinion. the more extreme theory was pushed by trump supporters, as they argued for that position that state legislatures could decide the electors in beetle ground states. erica and jim, this could have extreme consequences for the way elections are run. just in the day-to-day procedure, absentee ballots. if the [ sides with the republicans here, that could give unchecked power to state legislatures over election procedures. thats whats at states here. m...

Right now the supreme court is hearing arguments in a high-stakes case about election laws. the central question, can state legislatures write the rules for federal elections without oversight or input from state courts? cnn jessica schneider tracking the case and joins us with the latest. >> reporter: intricate arguments happening here centered around the meaning of the elections clause in the constitution and the power that state courts possess or state legislatures possession. when it comes d...

Two counties have postponed until the last minute, but election lawyers say the courts will force the certification by the deadline no matter what.

Chairwoman Mickie Nilands announcement came within minutes of an election lawsuit from Abe Hamadeh, the Republican nominee for attorney general.

No, Maggie Hassan did not receive 1,100 votes from a town of fewer than 700 people. That was a typo, and it has been corrected in official counts.

Endlessly messed around with election procedures and mind-boggling for different ways to centralize the approach and introduce complicated technologies often pushed by those who make donations for those who hand out the contract and the result is delayed chaos confusion for the type of the questioning of elections they say they try to avoid they lectured everyone else about undermining the democracy but they do it. the worst thing is the people in charge are not even embarrassed. like miracle be...

Endlessly messed around with election procedures and mind-boggling for different ways to centralize the approach and introduce complicated technologies often pushed by those who make donations for those who hand out the contract and the result is delayed chaos confusion for the type of the questioning of elections they say they try to avoid they lectured everyone else about undermining the democracy but they do it. the worst thing is the people in charge are not even embarrassed. like miracle be...