election integrity

A lawsuit filed by the Indiana and St. Joseph County Republican parties against the Democratic members of the St. Joseph County election board has changed court venues.

That’s according to a new poll of 950 registered voters commissioned by the Brennan Center for Justice and R Street Institute. The poll found that a belief in widespread election fraud and irregularities was overwhelmingly concentrated among Republican voters.

The Indiana Republican Party has filed a lawsuit against the Democratic members of the St. Joseph County Election Board, the latest development in a fight over how Democratic County Clerk Rita Glenn stored and processed absentee ballots in the May 2022 primary.

Last Tuesday, the St. Joseph County Commissioners passed a resolution to set up a third-party review of county election procedures because they say concerns have been raised over election integrity. But that resolution, approved by the all-Republican commissioners in a 2 to 1 vote, is now seeing pushback.

The St. Joseph County Commissioners approved a resolution Tuesday to set up a third-party review of county absentee ballot processing procedures after concerns were raised about election integrity.

A Republican election worker faces two felony charges for allegedly tampering with a computer after polls closed at a Gaines Township precinct in the August primary.

In August, on the night before Michigan’s primary election, Wayne County Republican Party leaders held a virtual training session for poll workers and partisan poll observers. During the session, the party leaders encouraged people to break election rules.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked a council of local prosecutors to take the unusual step of naming an outside counsel to look into allegations of election tampering and illegally seizing voting machines. The reason: One of the targets of the inquiry is her likely November election opponent, Matthew DePerno.

Misinformation campaigns and the possibility of local election officials resisting a part of their job came up during a Michigan Secretary of State press conference Monday.