Democratic Party officials on Monday filed federal lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Ohio in an attempt to stop what they called a "campaign of vigilante voter intimidation" by Donald Trump and Republican Party officials.
The lawsuits argue that Trump urging supporters to watch the polls for voter fraud in cities with high minority populations, like Philadelphia, amounts to harassment of minorities and violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and a law from 1871 aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. The Democrats also want to put an end to the Republican National Committee working with Trump and state parties on poll monitoring, saying a court order prevents the national party from participating in "ballot security" measures. The Trump campaign has not responded. Also on Monday, the NAACP chapter in North Carolina sued the state over allegations of voter suppression, saying thousands of names have been purged from voter rolls.
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