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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey are sending out 50,000 "poll watchers"...
we need to send 100,000!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/gop-recruits-army-poll-watchers-fight-voter-fraud-no-can-n1217391
We need to overwhelm their suppression efforts.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)harassers.
Democratic areas will have long lines and harassment enablers.
Democratic areas will have machines that will flip votes and or break down.
Republicans can never tell me about patriotism, ever.
still_one
(92,454 posts)spanone
(135,900 posts)babylonsister
(171,102 posts)everywhere. I'm not sure I'd volunteer with the 'rona running rampant. And I sure wouldn't believe their numbers either.
Scratch that. I wouldn't volunteer to monitor a bunch of potential carriers. I haven't isolated and masked for months to now expose myself to something that could kill me.
Tetrachloride
(7,877 posts)1. Where have the poll watchers gone before ?
2. Where will they go this time ?
3. Where will they go which we don't think they will.
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4. Consult your local laws and election websites.
5. CNN story https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/29/politics/poll-watchers-monitors/index.html
6. If you have a friendly law enforcement professional on your friends list, go see them.
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7. I believe long lines , voter registration, social distancing, fear are our lead enemies.
8. But the lesser forms of voter suppression will be used too. Lost ballots, "illegal signatures."
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9. use the voter registration tools being promote in your area.
10. be an election official.
11. get people to vote early.
ms liberty
(8,609 posts)And add that we need to be helping people in our families and communities be registered to vote, and helping them check to make sure they haven't been illegally purged. Then if they have, help them get it fixed if necessary, now rather than later. This really needs to be in high gear now; we're less than six months out.
Tetrachloride
(7,877 posts)can improve the outline.
machoneman
(4,014 posts)edhopper
(33,639 posts)the fascists to do this. They will be there.