Pennsylvania's GOP Files Lawsuit To Extend Vote Watcher Law
With two weeks to go before the presidential election, the Pennsylvania Republican Party has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the state's law regarding poll watchers is unconstitutional.
The challenge comes as polls show a tight race between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. In recent days on the campaign trail, Trump has warned of "rigged elections" in "other communities" including cities like Philadelphia.
The current state law, established in 1937, allows poll watchers to monitor locations only within the county in which they are registered to vote.
The lawsuit claims that because some electoral districts are not restricted to a single county, the law violates voters' free speech.
"The Commonwealth has no compelling interest in limiting political speech in this fashion," the lawsuit reads. "The Commonwealth's arbitrary exclusion of voters/poll watchers from serving as such in their own legislative district has real, demonstrable impacts."
http://www.wtvm.com/story/33464034/p...constitutional
Not them going for cross-county bigotry
