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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,711 posts)
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 01:41 PM Sep 2021

GOP 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 OP
Which is why they hate vote-by-mail gratuitous Sep 2021 #1
with guns . ... Lovie777 Sep 2021 #2
And I will still vote against them! Initech Sep 2021 #3
They want to start a war no matter what. 2naSalit Sep 2021 #4
That's electioneering and still illegal! You cannot intimidate voters at the polls PortTack Sep 2021 #5
You mean like school board and city council meetings? Nittersing Sep 2021 #6
Why wouldn't they? They've gotten away with everything else. Crunchy Frog Sep 2021 #7

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. Which is why they hate vote-by-mail
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 01:47 PM
Sep 2021

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.

Nittersing

(6,342 posts)
6. You mean like school board and city council meetings?
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 04:29 PM
Sep 2021

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.
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 04:44 PM
Sep 2021

There's literally no cost to them for taking this strategy to the farthest extreme possible.

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