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Four Alabamans filed a lawsuit late Thursday seeking to preserve electronic images of every paper ballot cast in next week’s high-profile special U.S. Senate election between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore—a key step in verifying the vote in case the election is close and a recount ensues.

The filing for a Republican, Democrat, Independent and a minister came after lawyers for the voters were rebuffed by statewide Alabama election officials, who they urged to not only preserve all election records—as required under federal law—but also to ensure the electronic scanners that will read and count the ink-marked paper ballots are properly programmed to capture the paper ballot images.