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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP to send their jack booted thugs to polling places in 2022
GOP to massively step up 2022 poll watching efforts in Michigan and across U.S.MACKINAC ISLAND The GOP will massively increase its poll watching and election litigation efforts in 2022 and beyond after so far failing to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election through a series of lawsuits and audits, a top Republican National Committee official said Friday.
Josh Findlay, election integrity director for the RNC, said one problem with GOP operations in 2020 was that attorneys for former President Donald Trump and other conservative groups went to court too late.
Going to court on Election Day is "not going to be effective," Findlay told attendees at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, held every other year on the northern Michigan island that can only be reached by ferry or private plane and where motorized vehicles are generally banned.
Findlay acknowledged another problem one that both nonpartisan judges and Democrats said in response to allegations of voter fraud and irregularities put forward by Republican poll watchers in Detroit. There, large numbers of volunteers were recruited by the GOP, in many cases at the last minute, to go to the TCF Center in Detroit while absentee ballots were being counted after the Nov. 3 vote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-to-massively-step-up-2022-poll-watching-efforts-in-michigan-and-across-u-s/ar-AAOOw6b
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GOP to send their jack booted thugs to polling places in 2022 (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Sep 2021
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That's electioneering and still illegal! You cannot intimidate voters at the polls
PortTack
Sep 2021
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Which is why they hate vote-by-mail
The goon squad doesn't want to go door-to-door intimidating voters. It's so much easier to wait at a polling place (in *those* neighborhoods, if you know what I mean) and push voters around.
Lovie777
(12,218 posts)2. with guns . ...
intimidation.
Initech
(100,029 posts)3. And I will still vote against them!
2naSalit
(86,318 posts)4. They want to start a war no matter what.
PortTack
(32,698 posts)5. That's electioneering and still illegal! You cannot intimidate voters at the polls
Nittersing
(6,342 posts)6. You mean like school board and city council meetings?
They got lots of folks who'll be happy to oblige.
Thank gawd I can vote by mail/drop box.
Crunchy Frog
(26,574 posts)7. Why wouldn't they? They've gotten away with everything else.
There's literally no cost to them for taking this strategy to the farthest extreme possible.