The Republican Nationwide Committee has filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Milwaukee Election Fee for limits the town is putting on ballot watchers.
Wisconsin is a vital swing state and has gone for Democrats in 5 of the final six elections. Trump received the state in 2016 by lower than one level. Biden received the state in 2020, additionally by lower than a single level.
The lawsuit alleges that Milwaukee Elections Fee has been “arbitrarily limiting and prohibiting members of the general public from observing all points of the voting course of at polling places within the Metropolis of Milwaukee,” by limiting entry to solely two observers at some polling places.
“That is an motion in opposition to Milwaukee Elections Fee (the ‘Fee’), in search of a short lived restraining order and injunction which requires the Fee to permit the general public to watch all public points of the voting course of in accordance with Wis. Stat. § 7.41, and an order of declaratory judgment concerning the right development of the Wisconsin Statutes requiring that the general public be afforded the flexibility to watch all public points of the voting course of in any respect polling places within the Metropolis of Milwaukee,” the grievance continues.
The RNC’s authorized crew famous that whereas Republicans are bringing the lawsuit, it can additionally profit Democrats, civil rights organizations, and smaller political events.
“The main political events, minor events, in addition to a number of massive nonprofit organizations all for suffrage points such because the ACLU and the League of Girls Voters have all expressed curiosity in observing election processes in Milwaukee,” the grievance says.
At the very least 5 polling places restrict the variety of observers allowed.
“When entry is arbitrarily restricted to 2 individuals, it opens the door to fraudulent claims of occasion affiliation in order to ‘freeze out’ one or the opposite main occasion,” the authorized crew wrote.
