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State Rep. Jason Zachary (R-Knoxville) is asking the State of Tennessee to join the 17 other states who filed a friend of the court brief in support of Texas' challenge to the electoral votes of battleground states. 

“I have requested through our Attorney General that TN join the lawsuit filed by TX. The integrity of our elections must be protected to preserve our Republic,” Zachary said on Twitter. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the suit against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Texas’s lawsuit points to irregularities in the voting process. 

“Plaintiff State respectfully submits that the foregoing types of electoral irregularities exceed the hanging-chad saga of the 2000 election in their degree of departure from both state and federal law,” the suit states. “Moreover, these flaws cumulatively preclude knowing who legitimately won the 2020 election and threaten to cloud all future elections.”

Texas wants the U.S. Supreme Court to ultimately enjoin the use of unlawful use of election results and send the states back to their state legislatures to appoint presidential electors.

“To safeguard public legitimacy at this unprecedented moment and restore public trust in the presidential election, this Court should extend the December 14, 2020 deadline for Defendant States’ certification of presidential electors to allow these investigations to be completed,” the complaint states. “Should one of the two leading candidates receive an absolute majority of the presidential electors’ votes to be cast on December 14, this would finalize the selection of our President.”