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The Republican National Committee and the city of Detroit reached an agreement Friday to resolve a lawsuit against poll watchers in the November election.

As part of the settlement agreement, obtained by CNN, Detroit election officials reiterated their obligation under state law to employ at least one GOP poll watcher at each polling location and reiterated their goal of ensuring partisan parity for poll watchers to the extent that enough Republican poll watchers report and take part in the necessary training.

Detroit officials also agreed to increase communication with local Republican Party officials and regularly update them on the number of Republican poll watchers who have applied and completed training.

Republicans filed the lawsuit in August, asking a state judge to force election officials in Detroit to ensure parity between Democratic and Republican poll watchers.

The lawsuit alleged that during Detroit’s 2024 primary, there were some precincts with an extremely biased number of poll watchers that favored Democrats. They claimed that there were no GOP poll watchers in about 200 of the city’s 335 precincts. (Detroit, in Wayne County, is a Democratic stronghold.)

Detroit experienced some of the most chaotic moments in the post-election process in 2020.

Supporters of then-President Donald Trump flooded some areas near the massive vote-counting center in downtown Detroit, forcing officials to board up some windows out of fear that protesters would disrupt the process. The incident sparked backlash in right-wing media and on social media. Federal prosecutors recently said there were attempts by Trump campaign officials to incite chaos in Detroit.

After losing the 2020 election, Trump spread baseless claims that GOP poll watchers in Detroit and other cities were being systematically sidelined. These claims were false.