Though the Trump supporters claimed to be official poll watchers hired by the campaign, election officials told the Inquirer that the Trump campaign, Republican National Committee and other Republican campaigns have not yet had any poll watchers officially certified in Philadelphia. The Trump campaign previously sued Pennsylvania to overturn a law stipulating that poll watchers only work in the county where they’re registered to vote, but the legal effort failed in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. “I am very worried about it,” Marc Elias, the attorney leading the Democratic Party's voting rights litigation, told 60 Minutes. “It's something that I think everyone who cares about voting rights needs to worry about.”TangentThe controversy around poll watchers is one of several recent voting-related controversies in Pennsylvania. State GOP lawmakers have also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a recent decision extending the state’s mail-in voting deadline, which is the first case the court will likely rule on without Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Source: Forbes September 30, 2020 17:15 UTC