The DNC wants to hold the RNC in contempt for its ‘voter fraud’ crusade

The Democratic Party on Wednesday asked a federal judge to hold the Republican National Committee in contempt for “supporting and enabling” Donald Trump’s efforts to “intimidate and discourage minority voters from voting in the 2016 Presidential Election.”

The motion is a drastic move for the Democrats, who have repeatedly raised alarms about the Trump campaign’s call for poll monitors to watch for “voter fraud,” noting that such calls likely violate a decades-old consent decree prohibiting the RNC from engaging in “ballot security” activities at polling places.

“Trump has falsely and repeatedly told his supporters that the November 8 election will be ‘rigged’ based upon fabricated claims of voter fraud in ‘certain areas’ or ‘certain sections’ of key states,” the Democratic National Committee’s motion says. “Unsurprisingly, those ‘certain areas’ are exclusively communities in which large minority voting populations reside.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/rnc-contempt-motion-f23b2fdff8e1#.fi6gyhq5y