It’s part of a trend as the RNC litigates election integrity across America ahead of November 2024.
As part of a growing wave of election integrity challenges, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has supported two formal complaints with the Wisconsin Elections Commission over election integrity concerns in the state’s two largest cities—Madison, the state’s capital, and Milwaukee, its lakefront metropolis.
More specifically, the Republican parties in Dane County and Milwaukee County accuse election officials in the heavily Democratic jurisdictions of violating state law by not scheduling the vast majority of Republican election inspectors submitted for the state’s primary, which was held on April 2.
“Wisconsin election officials defied state law by refusing to hire a fair number of Republican election inspectors, despite having hundreds of Republican nominees available,” Michael Whatley, the head of the RNC, said in a statement on the complaints.
As part of a growing wave of election integrity challenges, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has supported two formal complaints with the Wisconsin Elections Commission over election integrity concerns in the state’s two largest cities—Madison, the state’s capital, and Milwaukee, its lakefront metropolis.
More specifically, the Republican parties in Dane County and Milwaukee County accuse election officials in the heavily Democratic jurisdictions of violating state law by not scheduling the vast majority of Republican election inspectors submitted for the state’s primary, which was held on April 2.
“Wisconsin election officials defied state law by refusing to hire a fair number of Republican election inspectors, despite having hundreds of Republican nominees available,” Michael Whatley, the head of the RNC, said in a statement on the complaints.
The Epoch Times has reached out to the Wisconsin Elections Commission and election officials in Milwaukee for comment. As of the evening of April 10, no responses to the complaints were visible on the Madison City Clerk’s website or that of the City of Milwaukee Election Commission.
On April 11, the city attorney for Madison, Michael Haas, told The Epoch Times that the complaint aimed at his city “contains significant misstatements of the facts.”
“If the Elections Commission requests a response, the City will provide documentation to show what actually happened. All proper procedures were followed in appointing election inspectors and many individuals nominated by the Republican Party did not complete required paperwork to be hired or respond to communications from the Clerk’s Office regarding their availability,” added Mr. Haas, who came under fire from Republicans in the state when he was WEC’s interim administrator.
