Democrats in four key swing states plan to sue Republican nominee Donald Trump over his “poll watcher” program Tuesday.
“Trump has sought to advance his campaign’s goal of ‘voter suppression’ by using the loudest microphone in the nation to implore his supporters to engage in unlawful intimidation,” the Ohio Democratic Party wrote in the official filing.
Clinton joined in during her recent campaign stop in Cleveland, telling supporters, “His whole strategy is to suppress the vote. Lots of noise. Lots of distractions.”
Trump faces lawsuits in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona. Most states allow poll watchers to oversee voter check-ins, but require a representative from each party. In addition, poll-watching representatives from both parties need to be registered in the district they are watching, and must be certified by the local elections board.
Republican operative Roger Stone launched an operation to combat voter fraud called Stop the Steal, which aims to stop voter machine fraud. Stone alleges that Democrats “intend to flood the polls with illegals. Liberal enclaves already let illegals vote in their local and state elections and now they want them to vote in the Presidential [sic] election.”
Stop the Steal currently has 1,400 operatives, who are instructed to approach voters after they already cast their vote to ask them about their voting experience.
“Since we are only talking to voters after they have voted, how can we be intimidating them?” Stone said.
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