Is Wisconsin's Right Wing Attorney General playing politics with election monitoring?

From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

A Milwaukee legislator is questioning whether Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is playing politics by assigning election monitors to certain parts of the state to look for instances of voter fraud.

In a letter released to the media, Rep. Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee) wrote that, "simply looking at the list of locations where you are sending and not sending your officers, it is hard to not view this as a political effort. While you plan to send nine teams to the cities of Milwaukee and Madison, you fail to send any of your officers to Washington or Ozaukee Counties, and only one team to Waukesha County."

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"Washington, Ozaukee, and Waukesha Counties are some of the highest turnout counties in the state," Richards said. "Likewise, the cities of Waukesha, Brookfield and New Berlin, within Waukesha County, are major cities that are of comparable size and which deserve the same attention you are giving to Appleton, Wausau, Beloit and La Crosse."

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"Areas with traditionally high Republican turnout deserve the same level of scrutiny that the Department of Justice is giving areas with traditionally high Democratic turnout," Richards said.

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