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Detroit allegedly does not appoint enough Republican election officials

There were as many as seven Democrats for every one Republican nominated in the city of Detroit as election inspectors, violating laws that require an approximately equal number from each party.

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Michigan law requires a certain number of election inspectors, who process voters and absentee ballots as well as secure voting equipment and release results, to be affiliated with each major party. File Image.

Attorneys for the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit against officials in Detroit, Michigan, over their alleged failure to hire a sufficient number of Republican election inspectors.

 

Michigan law requires a certain number of election inspectors, who process voters and absentee ballots as well as secure voting equipment and release results, to be affiliated with each major party. Republicans nominated 675 election inspectors, while Detroit only appointed 52 of the electors while hiring some 250 other Republicans not nominated by the party.

 

 

There were meanwhile as many as seven Democrats for every one Republican nominated as election inspectors, violating laws that require an approximately equal number from each party.

 

“Our lawsuit demands that Detroit appoint more Republican inspectors,” the Republican National Committee said in a statement. “The city of Detroit must correct this imbalance in poll worker assignments and ensure that November’s election adheres to the legal requirements.”

 

 

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley and Republican National Committee co-chairwoman Lara Trump added in the statement that the failure of Detroit to hire Republican election inspectors was “bad-faith Democrat interference that drives down faith in elections.”

 

The lawsuit comes months after the Republican National Committee and the campaign of former President Donald Trump said that they would engage 100,000 volunteers and attorneys “deployed across every battleground state” to monitor every ballot cast or counted, then engage “rapid response services” if irregularities are noticed. The volunteers will undergo training sessions for observing early voting, mail ballot processing, and election day voting procedures.