In Minnesota the state Republican party has brought suit to enforce the state law requiring partisan balance among the election judges at polling places. (Click here for the Minneapolis Star Tribune story on the case.)
Sounds fair, but for some reason — I can't imagine what it might be — the thought appears to strike fear into the heart of Democratic operatives. The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is fighting the lawsuit as though victory hinges on noncompliance with the law. The Minnesota supreme court has scheduled an expedited hearing on the matter for Thursday afternoon.
Perhaps most ominously, I have been told that in papers it has filed with the court, the DFL attorneys have asked the court to take the unprecedented step of adopting special procedures for hearing issues the DFL may choose to bring before the court on Election Day. Call them crazy, but to state Republican party officials, the DFL response is a dead giveaway that the DFL has formulated a strategic plan to mess with the election.
