Some Officials Fear Sabotage From Republican Election Workers

[Nevilledog]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-officials-fear-sabotage-far-right-poll-workers-watchers-midtems_n_6350498fe4b051268c5082ea

After Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential race, he and his allies flooded the zone with vicious lies about a stolen election. Implicitly and sometimes explicitly, they blamed thousands of low-level election workers in the supposed plot to deliver Joe Biden an unearned victory.

Poll workers and others who do the largely thankless work of administering elections subsequently faced threats and harassment, and many chose to leave the field, ceding ground to well-organized right-wing efforts to train thousands of volunteer observers and paid election workers.

Taken together, election officials around the country are now bracing for a potential problem that would have seemed outlandish just a few years ago: so-called “insider threats” to the midterm voting process. Some election experts fear that individuals seeking to produce evidence of widespread voter fraud — even when it doesn’t exist — could end up in sensitive election roles, allowing them to stir chaos with claims of fraud or wrongdoing.

Officials in several states, including Colorado, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada, have reported unusually aggressive poll watcher activity so far in primary elections this year, Reuters reported. Poll watchers have made comments about “fraudulent elections,” attempted to take photographs of voting equipment and looked at private voter data, according to the report.

As early general election voting gets underway around the country, some administrators are planning for further disruptions.

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[bluestarone]

1. I really believe this is their plan

Some states we better have SMART people watching these dirty bastards!!

[bullimiami]

2. I would like Garland to make a public statement regarding federal election crimes and punishments.

Let everyone know that any breaking of federal statutes will be aggressively pursued.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Are there sufficient statutes?

When smoothly functioning the system is supposed to have checks and double checks, much like an accounting system. But has it ever been tested when several insiders corrupt the process? Don't blame me, I have no idea, I'm just asking the questions.

[bullimiami]

4. I dont know either.

[GenXer47]

5. tampering with voting equipment

should carry the death penalty. Yes, it is that important!

[catrose]

6. Harris County (Houston, Texas) has asked for federal help

[raging moderate]

7. They think they are the only "Real" Americans.

So of course their demented brains would try to grant voting rights only to "Real" Americans.

[lindysalsagal]

8. I'm signed up to be a poll watcher. The dems will tell me where they want me.

Hoping for a quiet, boring day.