RNC Backs Complaints Alleging Illegal Election Inspector Gaps in Wisconsin’s Biggest Cities

Published on April 11, 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....