LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan Republicans are suing Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for allegedly violating Michigan election safety legislation, Republican leaders introduced Tuesday.
The Michigan RNC and MIGOP allege that Benson did not observe Michigan legal guidelines that require implementation of poll quantity matching on the poll, ballot e-book, and poll return envelope to make sure that ballots are precisely solid and counted.
The lawsuit alleges that the RNC Election Integrity employees witnessed quite a few mail-in ballots being counted with lacking stub numbers—stub numbers being an election safety safeguard used to determine particular person ballots and be sure that an elector is casting the proper poll.
State legislation requires that ballots with a lacking stub or whose numbers don’t match should be rejected by native clerks and election inspectors. Voters are then given the chance to repair their poll as much as three days after Election Day.
Nonetheless, state Republicans declare that Benson issued election steering to election authorities to course of these mismatched ballots as “challenged” ballots as an alternative of “rejected.” These “challenged” ballots, they declare, are nonetheless tabulated by election inspectors and utilized to election outcomes.
That is the second lawsuit state Republicans have enacted towards Benson, coming simply because the November presidential election is ready to get began.
See the total lawsuit beneath:
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