Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls

The surge in litigation is exemplified in Michigan, where the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit alleging voter rolls are bloated with the names of deceased people and seeking to clean them up – moves that mirror others this year by rightwing groups and the Republican party. 

PILF's Michigan lawsuit was rejected on 1 March by a federal judge who ruled the state is "consistently among the most active states in the United States in canceling the registrations of deceased individuals" and that "deceased voters are removed from Michigan's voter rolls on a regular and ongoing basis"… 

Soon after Pilf's lawsuit was dismissed, the Republican National Committee filed a similar suit in Michigan that Jocelyn Benson, the secretary of state there, denounced as a "PR campaign masquerading as a meritless lawsuit"…

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