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Monroe County hires outside counsel as county faces lawsuit over student ID voter rule
Summary
The Monroe County Election Board approved retaining Barnes & Thornburg to assist in federal litigation challenging Senate Bill 10, which bans student IDs for voter ID, and discussed state citizenship-verification letters being mailed to voters with temporary credentials.
The Monroe County Election Board on Aug. (at its August meeting) approved retaining Barnes & Thornburg to assist the county legal department in a federal lawsuit challenging Senate Bill 10, which prohibits use of student IDs for voter identification.
The hire was described by Dave Schilling, an attorney in the county legal department, as limited in scope. "the, representation of Barnes and Thornburg is gonna be limited to assisting us in, court conferences and hearings and, discovery complying with discovery requests and so forth, and will not be with taking a position on the validity of senate bill 10 through this," Schilling said. He told the board the county asked the state attorney general to represent the county but the attorney general's office declined; the county will pay Barnes & Thornburg from the legal department budget.
The move comes as the county…
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