WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Republican National Committee (RNC) says it has filed 73 lawsuits to enforce election laws and protect the 2022 elections from voter fraud.
The RNC also has trained thousands of poll watchers to report election malfeasance ahead of the November 8 midterm elections and the 2024 presidential elections.
The GOP “has launched 73 lawsuits on election integrity issues in 20 states during the 2022 midterm election cycle, an increase from 2020 that has already secured GOP victories in battleground states this year,” Fox News reported.
“After the shortcomings of the last election, a proactive and pre-emptive legal strategy is critical to the election integrity voters deserve in 2022, 2024 and beyond,” Michael Bars, who leads the Election Transparency Initiative, told Fox News.
The efforts began months ago. Republicans are “spending millions this year in 16 critical states on an unprecedented push to recruit thousands of poll workers and watchers,” The Washington Post reported in June.
“The RNC has so far signed up more than 14,000 poll workers and 10,000 poll watchers nationwide.”
On October 25, the Post reported: “The Republican National Committee and its allies say they have staged thousands of training sessions around the country on how to monitor voting and lodge complaints about next month’s midterm elections.”
“In Pennsylvania, party officials have boasted about swelling the ranks of poll watchers to six times the total from 2020. In Michigan, a right-wing group announced it had launched ‘Operation Overwatch’ to hunt down election-related malfeasance, issuing a press release that repeated the warning ‘We are watching’ 10 times.'”
RNC officials also continue to file lawsuits.
“In Vermont and New York, for example, the RNC sued to strike down voting laws that would allow non-U.S. citizens to vote,” Fox News reported. “In June, it successfully argued in the New York State Supreme Court to strike down a law that would have added at least 900,000 non-citizens to voter rolls. On Oct. 16, the RNC sued after Pennsylvania’s decision to dodge state law and a Supreme Court ruling by saying it will count undated absentee ballots.”
Other conservative groups are also, independent of the RNC, training election workers.
Tea Party Patriots Action’s chair Jenny Beth Martin told The Epoch Times that her group is training election judges and other poll workers. “Martin and another trainer, Toni Shuppe, the head of Audit the Vote PA, said that about 6,000 people are in training to become poll watchers in Pennsylvania alone ahead of the midterms, a massive increase from the 500 in 2020,” the Epoch Times reported.
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Republican leaders also concerned about Big Tech interference
The 2022 midterm elections have also featured further accusations from Republican leaders of Big Tech meddling. Google is reportedly censoring emails from Republican candidates, making it harder for them to reach voters and to fundraise.
The RNC “says that in September alone, Google censored about 22 million fundraising and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) emails by sending them to the spam folders of Gmail users,” Reclaim the Net reported.
“The RNC provided Fox News with data showing that at the end of each month, emails sent to subscribers using Gmail accounts are being sent to the spam folders,” the news outlet reported. “On September 28, over 3.1 million emails sent by the RNC were sent to the spam folders. On September 29, Google censored over 9.8 million emails, and on September 30, over 9.97 million emails.”
“Every single month, like clockwork, Google suppresses important GOTV and fundraising emails at the end of the month, with zero explanation nor commitment from Google to resolve this issue,” party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told Fox News in early October. She said that still, close to the election, “important GOTV emails to our opted-in voters in states that have already started early voting are being systematically sent to spam.”
Google denies the claims.