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Republican leaders in Wayne County, Michigan told poll workers "to ignore local election rules" in a call last month.
What happened to "election integrity?"🤔
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Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session | CNN Politics
The evening before Michigan's state primary, Wayne County GOP leaders held a Zoom training session for poll workers and partisan observers -- warning them about "bad stuff happening" during the...
3:34 PM · Sep 7, 2022
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Republican leaders in Wayne County, Michigan told poll workers "to ignore local election rules" in a call last month.
What happened to "election integrity?"🤔
cnn.com
Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session | CNN Politics
The evening before Michigan's state primary, Wayne County GOP leaders held a Zoom training session for poll workers and partisan observers -- warning them about "bad stuff happening" during the...
3:34 PM · Sep 7, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/politics/michigan-gop-poll-worker-training-invs/index.html
(CNN)The evening before Michigan's state primary, Wayne County GOP leaders held a Zoom training session for poll workers and partisan observers -- warning them about "bad stuff happening" during the election and encouraging them to ignore local election rules barring cell phones and pens from polling places and vote-counting centers.
"None of the constraints that they're putting on this are legal," former state senator Patrick Colbeck told trainees on the August 1 call.
As far as cell phones, "I would say maybe just hide it or something, and maybe hide a small pad and a small pen or something like that because you need to take accurate notes," Cheryl Costantino, the GOP county chairwoman and host of the call, told participants.
Some participants raised concerns about being tossed out if they broke the rules. "That's why you got to do it secretly," Costantino replied.
While volunteer partisan observers have always been trained by political parties and non-profit groups in Michigan, the Wayne County GOP had also invited poll workers -- people hired and paid by the local clerk's office. They are in charge of running the election, and their responsibilities can include checking voter IDs, counting ballots, and even securing voting equipment at the end of the day. Poll workers are required to engage in non-partisan training overseen by the local clerk and are only identified as Republicans for the purposes of making sure there is equal representation of both major parties working the election, according to the Michigan Bureau of Elections.
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Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2022
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Cheryl Costantino handed me a mint to vote for her years ago when I lived in SE Michigan.
Freethinker65
Sep 2022
#4
The radicalized Republican party screams about voter fraud to cover their election fraud.
Hermit-The-Prog
Sep 2022
#6
2naSalit
(86,636 posts)1. Aren't there laws...
In Michigan against conspiring to undermine an election?
paleotn
(17,920 posts)2. Fascists who hate America.
grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)3. Sure, and if the Dems broke the rules,
they would be up in arms all over the place.
Fucking hypocrite assholes!
Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)4. Cheryl Costantino handed me a mint to vote for her years ago when I lived in SE Michigan.
Surprised that nut is still involved in politics.
Emile
(22,771 posts)5. The FBI looking into this?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,348 posts)6. The radicalized Republican party screams about voter fraud to cover their election fraud.
Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
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Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)7. It's not Election Fraud when Republicans do it.
I hope the investigation into Trumps 2020 coup covers these corrupt cretins.
Theyre on the wrong side of history. Put em on the other side of the bars, too.
EnergizedLib
(1,895 posts)8. Is this the law and order party?
Heres your election fraud that weve heard so much about, heres every accusation being a confession.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,009 posts)9. The only way they can win is cheat