The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed 73 lawsuits on election integrity issues in 20 states during the 2022 midterm election cycle. That’s up from 2020, already securing a Republican victory in this year’s battleground states.
Legal challenges range from the right of pollsters to monitor vote tallies to illegal tallies of incorrectly marked absentee ballots.
The aggressive legal approach is an effort to meet RNC chairman Ronna McDaniel’s vision of making this cycle the RNC’s “most litigious” one, according to an RNC spokesperson. The strategy includes aggressive lawsuits, such as suing the Democratic secretary of state and challenging election laws that favor Democrats, as well as defensive lawsuits, including intervening in lawsuits brought by the Biden administration in Republican states. behavior is included.
The strategy follows a cycle of some Republicans wanting a greater effort to curb state campaigning and a presidential election outcome that prompted former President Trump to file dozens of lawsuits. It takes place two years later. One Republican group welcomed the decision to take aggressive legal action to prevent states from expanding election rules beyond state law.
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Michael Bars, executive director of the Election Transparency Initiative, told Fox News Digital: He added that “great progress” had been made in the past two years to “restore voter confidence in fair and safe elections.”
According to RNC spokesperson Gates McGavic, the lawsuit is the result of “a multi-million dollar investment in building an electoral integrity operational infrastructure that utilizes legal, political, data and communications resources.” is.
For example, in Vermont and New York, the RNC has sued to overturn voting laws that allow noncitizens to vote. In June, he successfully argued in the New York State Supreme Court to nullify a law that would add at least 900,000 noncitizens to the voter rolls.
On October 16, the RNC filed a lawsuit after Pennsylvania decided to circumvent state law and the Supreme Court ruled that undated absentee ballots count.
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Also this month, the RNC won two legal challenges to ensure pollsters represented both parties equally.
And just last week, the RNC won a legal challenge against Michigan’s Democratic Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson. He imposed illegal restrictions on poll challengers, people appointed to challenge the eligibility of voters.
“Jocelyn Benson not only ignored Michigan’s election laws in issuing this guidance, but also ensured full transparency and confidence that Michigan’s elections were being held fairly and legally. To promote it, we violated the rights of political parties and poll challengers,” McDaniel said in a statement.
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With November’s midterm elections looming, McGavick told Fox News Digital that the improved infrastructure would also help Republicans combat legal battles that could arise from close competition. But he said the RNC’s “aggressive pre-election litigation efforts in many states have been successful in clarifying traffic rules in advance.”