Attorneys representing the Democratic Nationwide Committee say the complaints alleging defective voter roll cleanup are purely political theater.
Democrats wish to dismiss election integrity fits filed in Michigan and Nevada by the Republican Nationwide Committee (RNC).
On Might 6, attorneys representing the Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC) and Biden For President filed three amicus briefs throughout a number of jurisdictions “outlining Republicans’ shoddy authorized arguments and calling out these efforts for what they are surely: press releases thinly disguised as authorized papers, supposed to foster mistrust in regards to the election.”
“Within the final two months, the RNC has filed baseless lawsuits towards secretaries of state in Michigan and Nevada, making an attempt to kick eligible voters off the voter rolls and take down steering round how clerks conduct signature matching for mail voting ballots,” Michael Tyler, Biden-Harris 2024 communications director, and DNC Communications Director Rosemary Boeglin stated in an open letter addressed to the press.
“These lawsuits are utterly meritless and designed solely to attempt to undermine our democracy and voters’ confidence in it.”
In a five-point argumentation, the transient says the Republican problem to varied state election legal guidelines specializing in the Nationwide Voter Registration Act is flawed. It contends the RNC’s authorized staff makes use of unhealthy logic and incomparable knowledge to purge voter rolls.
“Nevada’s and Michigan’s voter rolls are inaccurate—full cease,” Claire Zunk, the RNC’s communications director for election integrity, informed The Epoch Occasions.
“It speaks volumes that Democrats are laser-focused on stopping voter roll cleanup as a substitute of fixing any of the crises which have erupted on their watch.”
The RNC’s authorized evaluation says that 76 of Michigan’s 83 counties keep illegally inflated voter rolls.
The Might 6 amicus transient filed in Nevada was signed by Daniel Stewart of Denver-based regulation agency Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP and two attorneys with Perkins Coie LLP of Seattle.
The DNC didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Epoch Occasions.
Different RNC Election Lawsuits
Below the management of Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump, the RNC is prioritizing election integrity forward of the 2024 normal election. To date, the RNC is concerned in 83 lively lawsuits throughout 25 completely different states.
In April, the RNC stated it deliberate to make use of greater than 100,000 election integrity staff on and earlier than Election Day.
Within the criticism, the Republicans say Nevada’s legal guidelines “successfully [extend] Nevada’s federal election previous the Election Day established by Congress.”
This “violates the rights of candidates, campaigns, and voters.”
These fits allege that election officers in Dane County and Milwaukee County violated state regulation by not scheduling the overwhelming majority of Republican election inspectors submitted for the state’s main, which was held on April 2.