By Just the News, Natalia Nittelstadt, Oct. 27

The Biden administration’s Department of Justice is suing states and towns across the country in an effort to thwart election integrity measures ahead of the presidential election, resulting in pushback from election integrity advocates.

The DOJ has sued Virginia, Alabama, and rural Wisconsin towns over the removal of non-citizens from voter rolls and switching to only paper ballots and hand-counting. Some of the jurisdictions are fighting back, arguing that they are following the law as they work to ensure election integrity.

The DOJ also sued two rural Wisconsin towns last month after they switched from including electronic voting machines to using only paper ballots in their elections and counting them by hand.

The Biden DOJ alleged that the towns and the state violated Section 301 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) by not having an accessible voting machine for voters with disabilities.

One town, Lawrence, with a population of 301 people, settled, signing a consent decree with the DOJ last Friday. In accordance with the consent decree, the town board voted on Sept. 6 to rescind the January 2023 decision to not turn “on the voting machine.”

On the other hand, the town of Thornapple is defending its decision, saying that it is following the law by ensuring that voters with disabilities are in fact receiving the required assistance. According to the DOJ’s lawsuit, the Thornapple Town Board of Supervisors voted in June 2023 to “stop use of the electronic voting machine and use paper ballots.”

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