Religious right in drive to police election amid dubious voter fraud claims

[dajoki]

Religious right in drive to police election amid dubious voter fraud claims
Rightwing groups sign up thousands of volunteers to watch for alleged fraud linked to mail-in ballots, despite scant evidence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/11/religious-right-polling-places-election-voter-fraud?


Religious right and social conservative groups are training thousands of volunteers in key 2020 battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to watch for alleged fraud with the expansion of mail-in ballots, plus filing lawsuits to block more voting by mail, which they claim with scant evidence will lead to sizable election fraud.

Texas-based True the Vote, a central player in the right’s anti-vote-by-mail drives, has trained about 10,000 volunteers in areas including handwriting analysis who are expected to volunteer in key counties such as Allegheny in Pennsylvania and Las Vegas in Nevada to detect voting fraud by mail and at the polls, said True the Vote’s founder, Catherine Engelbrecht.

True the Vote, which has Tea Party roots, has done training sessions with several national religious and social conservative groups such as Intercessors for America, the Thomas More Law Center and Eagle Forum, as well as a few dozen smaller local groups nationwide, said Engelbrecht.

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Dave Kubal, the Intercessors president who participated in the prayer call, reportedly said that Engelbrecht had been “anointed” by God for her current work, and hailed her as a “warrior for liberty”.

As part of its 2020 battle plan to monitor both mail-in voting and the polls for fraud, Engelbrecht said that True the Vote is recruiting thousands of military veterans including from the American Legion and the Seal community, to join its “Continue to Serve” program. “We’re reaching out to veterans groups and first responders.”

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. christofascists rolling out their goons to stir up trouble at the polls.

Make sure you take your phones if you are voting in person so you can record anyone doing more than observing.

[nykym]

2. States need to check the residency of these supposed poll watchers

Pennsylvania
25 P.S. §2687

Must be a registered voter in the county; can only be a poll watcher in one district; candidates can appoint two watchers per district and political parties can appoint three watchers per district.

Wisconsin
W.S.A. 7.41

Any member of the public may be an observer except for a candidate on the ballot; observers must be in a designated location and they have to sign a log maintained by an official at the polling place.

Michigan
M.C.L.A. 168.733; M.C.L.A. 168.730

Registered voter in the state; not a candidate or election inspector; challengers must carry an identification card; a political party, organization, or organized entity of interested citizens may designate no more than two people per precinct at any one time.

[crickets]

3. "handwriting analysis" - get real.

This is creating exactly what it pretends to oppose.