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In reply to the discussion: Trump campaign planning to deploy 100K attorneys, volunteers to monitor vote counts [View all]LetMyPeopleVote
(146,743 posts)36. Poll watchers are indeed limited
True the Vote targeted my county in 2012. I had 70 or so poll watchers out and we had few issues. I did some poll watching during the one weekend of weekend early voting. There was a true the vote asshole there but he was fairly well behaved.
That was the last year before the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act. The DOJ had observers in five or so of the key precincts and the DOJ told my poll watchers that they were not needed because only an idiot would try something with DOJ observers on the ground.
Poll watchers can only talk to the head election judge unless the judge allows them to do more. The main thing that a poll watcher can do is go outside to call the election protection attorneys in the boiler rooms.
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Trump campaign planning to deploy 100K attorneys, volunteers to monitor vote counts [View all]
RandySF
Apr 19
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I know of 11,000 or so out of state attorneys who went to battleground states in 2004
LetMyPeopleVote
Apr 19
#35
I was one of 3,000 out of state attorneys who went to Florida in 2004 as part of the Kerry Edwards Voter Protection tea
LetMyPeopleVote
Apr 19
#34
So they are going to spend millions of campaign donations on Attorneys and not campaigning.
Jacson6
Apr 19
#31
He's known for not paying lawyers on his own cases and he's currently going broke.
tinrobot
Apr 19
#32
I'm an attorney who has served as a Democratic election observer and adviser. And haven't been paid a dime.
onenote
Apr 19
#46
lol, the Orange Fascist is gobbling up all of the RNCs money and paying his own lawyers
Tarc
Apr 19
#45
A suggestion. Instead of just pooh-poohing the repubs plan, sign up to be a Democratic volunteer observer
onenote
Apr 19
#47
"Republicans are now working together to protect the vote and ensure a big win on November 5th!"
GenThePerservering
Apr 20
#50