U.S. court deals Trump a setback in poll-monitor fight
Thu Nov 3, 2016 | 6:50pm EDT
By Andy Sullivan | WASHINGTON
... In Pennsylvania, Trump's poll-monitoring plan faces a significant hurdle because state law requires partisan poll watchers to perform their duties in the county in which they are registered to vote.
That could make it difficult to recruit monitors in places like Philadelphia, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a ratio of eight to one. The city has 120,000 registered Republicans and 1,685 voting locations.
The Pennsylvania Republican Party sought to suspend that requirement so that poll monitors could come from anywhere in the state, which would enable them to bring in supporters from suburban and rural areas where Trump has stronger support.
But U.S. District Judge Gerald Pappert said that would be too disruptive to change the law less than a week before Tuesday's vote ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-monitors-idUSKBN12Y2BR