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"The recall vote-counting has yet to begin, but election officials already are experiencing surveillance befitting a spy novel.
In Seal Beach, election workers arrive to pick up ballots from a county drop box outside of Leisure World and, no matter what time of day they make their rounds, are invariably met by a man who pops out to take their picture. Other election workers report individuals photographing their license plates. At ballot processing centers, volunteer observers keep a close eye on those approving the signatures on unopened ballots and sometimes are challenging the validity of the signatures, a practice that is banned in some counties and has been declared illegal by at least one judge.
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In some cases, election chiefs are pushing back, debunking false rumors they might have ignored in the past or shutting down voter signature challenges they say were abused marking new battle lines in the nations political misinformation war.
I still try to be diplomatic. But Im at the point where I say, Enough, said Orange County Registrar Neal Kelley, whose duties Thursday included dealing with an agitated volunteer election watcher upset that election staffers were approving voter signatures he believed should be rejected. This needs to be called out. ... Its just gotten absurd.
Statewide, nearly half a dozen California groups are currently running election fraud campaigns, though poll observer logs from four counties Orange, San Diego, Fresno and San Luis Obispo show the vote watchers hail almost exclusively from one organization: the Election Integrity Project.
The organization, which grew out of the tea party movement, says it has trained some 4,000 observers to police the recall, including 300 in Los Angeles County, though reports suggest the numbers of observers showing up so far are a fraction of that. Still, some registrars are concerned the groups claims about problems with mailed ballots will discourage people from voting and undermine confidence in the election process.
The state Republican Party has launched its own election fraud program, as have leaders of several conservative political action committees. They are competing for the attention and donations of a common conservative base. In that close environment, Election Integrity Project requires its volunteers to sign a form agreeing to not share what they see with other election watch groups."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-10/election-chiefs-wary-of-california-recall-vote-fraud-claims
I have no doubt trump and his thugs are behind this and what has been going on in Arizona, and the threats against election officials and their families in Georgia.
This has already gone too far, and the DOJ really needs to step in. Voters and election officials are being harassed and threatened, and in Arizona, official ballots have been tampered with.
OAITW r.2.0
(23,862 posts)msongs
(67,199 posts)because they support the filibuster
ShazamIam
(2,559 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 10, 2021, 09:22 PM - Edit history (1)
voter suppression law and wonder if the Republicans are planning to have armed poll watchers.
It seems to be controlled by the states, the rules for poll watching though there are some federal limitations. The Republican voter suppression seems to push past a lot of the limits.
I don't think even the states can allow poll watchers to, intimidate voters or interfere with the voting process.
More here: https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/28/EAC_5TipsForEducatingPollWatchers_508_HiRes.pdf
. Edit add: I found this article about the Election Integrity Project, https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/new-right-wing-election-integrity-project-is-chaired-by-attorney-who-helped-trump-badger-georgias-secretary-of-state/
And here is their own website: https://www.eip-ca.com/index.htm
JohnSJ
(91,965 posts)in the election process.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)Hugin
(32,778 posts)Nah.
Assholes.