An interesting case brewing in Michigan. A local GOP official there just filed suit against an indy media outlet for libel for reporting last month that the GOP was going to use foreclosure rolls to disqualify potential voters in November.
This is the (alleged) lose your house, change your address, lose your right to vote scam we reported about a couple of weeks ago.
That’s a big can of worms for the GOP to be potentially opening up to discovery. We’ll be watching this one very closely.
Late Update: Who’s paying for the lawyer representing the GOP official? The lawyer declined to tell TPMmuckraker, but he did refer us to the Michigan Republican Party …
