A Missouri judge has rejected bid to let voters decide whether to use new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON – Republicans are keeping their legal options open to challenge absentee ballots in Pennsylvania, if the battleground state could swing President Donald Trump's reelection. The GOP already has laid the groundwork at the Supreme Court for an effort to exclude ballots that arrive after polls close Tuesday. Around 400,000 absentee ballots from Clark County have been returned and accepted as valid, according to state election data. Mailed ballots that don’t come inside a secrecy envelope have to be discarded, under a state Supreme Court ruling. The Supreme Court has never cited Bush v. Gore as the basis for a decision of the court.