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... Trump: I'm urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully. Because that's what has to happen. I am urging them to do it. As you know, today, there was a big problem. In Philadelphia they went in to watch. They were called poll watchers -- a very safe, very nice thing. They were thrown out. They weren't allowed to watch. You know why? Because bad things happen in Philadelphia, bad things. And I -- I am urging -- I am urging my people. I hope it's going to be a fair election. If it's a fair election...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/polls-donald-trump-election-first-debate/index.html
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Battle Creek, MI, USA / WIN 98.5 Your Country | WNWN-FM | Battle Creek, MI
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Sep 30, 2020 4:03 PM
By Michael Martina and Andy Sullivan
(Reuters) - U.S. Democrats and nonpartisan election experts on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump's calls for his supporters to act as ad-hoc poll watchers in the November election, saying they were an oblique call for illegal voter intimidation.
While U.S. election conduct is governed by a patchwork of state and federal laws, they generally apply strict rules of conduct to partisan election monitors, who are not supposed to interfere in the electoral process ...
Some 40 states require partisan election monitors to be formally accredited ahead of the election, and many limit the number who can be at a particular location.
"Most states allow for parties and candidates to have some degree of measured poll watching," said David Becker, director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research. "We need to also have functional polling places where voters feel safe."
The national Republican party for more than three decades was limited by federal courts from mounting national voter monitoring operations after instances of voter intimidation. That ban was lifted in 2018 ...
https://wincountry.com/2020/09/30/fears-of-voter-intimidation-follow-trumps-debate-call-for-his-backers-to-monitor-polls/
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)How many will do the right thing?
Thekaspervote
(32,819 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Advocates Decry Georgia Supreme Court's Decision Allowing Governor to Invalidate Election Results
BY ASHER STOCKLER ON 5/16/20 AT 12:03 PM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-supreme-court-elections-1504585
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)By JANET HOOK and EVAN HALPER
Los Angeles Times
Published: 9/30/2020 5:23:40 PM
WASHINGTON Donald Trumps volcanic debate performance put the presidents sympathy for white supremacists in the campaign spotlight Wednesday, heightening a sense of menacing chaos in the campaign that threatens to undercut other Republicans up for reelection in a year that was already a challenge for the GOP ...
On CBS This Morning, for example, former Republican Party chair Reince Priebus tried to avoid commenting on Trumps remark about the Proud Boys, claiming he hadnt heard him say it ...
https://www.concordmonitor.com/Trump-s-debate-remark-puts-white-supremacy-at-focus-of-campaign-36543137
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)by Jessica Calefati, Posted: September 30, 2020- 4:30 PM
... Trumps accusation is full of misinformation.
Under state law, poll watchers in Pennsylvania may only observe voting at traditional polling places on Election Day, and they must be certified by the state to do so. But the state hasnt designated any Republican poll watchers yet thats typically done a few days before an election. And even if the state had, those people wouldnt be allowed to watch anything until Nov. 3 ...
On Tuesday afternoon, a woman arrived at the satellite office inside Overbrook Elementary School in West Philadelphia, and told a supervisor she was there to monitor the integrity of the election. The supervisor told her she was not allowed inside the building unless she wanted to use the offices services ...
The woman told The Inquirer she had been hired by the Trump campaign to monitor the West Philadelphia site and calmly stated she had a right to be inside. Once again: She did not. No poll watchers in Pennsylvania will be allowed until Nov. 3 ...
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/trump-debate-philadelphia-poll-watchers-fact-check-20200930.html
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Alison Durkee
Forbes Staff
TOPLINE Philadelphia will develop an interagency plan to prevent Trump supporters from intimidating voters at the polls, Mayor Jim Kenney told the Philadelphia Inquirer Wednesday, after President Donald Trump singled out the city on the debate stage Tuesday night when telling supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully ...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/09/30/philadelphia-developing-anti-voter-intimidation-plan-after-trump-tells-supporters-to-watch-the-polls-debate/#7368ac3fad86
panader0
(25,816 posts)Le Roi de Pot
(744 posts)crickets
(25,989 posts)"Take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut! Take a flying fuck at the moon!"
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)but I'm tired and grumpy right now
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Nevada's attorney general said he would prosecute people who follow President Donald Trump's advice to go to polling places and monitor votes being counted, accusing the president of encouraging voter intimidation ...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/people-who-follow-trumps-advice-and-hang-around-watching-polling-places-will-be-prosecuted-nevadas-attorney-general-says/ar-BB19zCUk
LisaL
(44,980 posts)NT
Cha
(297,935 posts)his rat's ass.. he wants fucking Chaos.
Can we say "BACKFIRE!"?
spanone
(135,921 posts)dustyscamp
(2,228 posts)"We have the Senate, we have the White House, and we have a phenomenal nominee."
Cha
(297,935 posts)Elections have Consequences.. you got yourself IMPEACHED for being being a Traitor.. trying to extort a foreign government to Manufacture Dirt on Hunter & Joe Biden.
Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)His "watchers" can't look over the shoulders of people as they cast their votes. An unless they are registered poll workers, they cannot be allowed access to cast ballots, scan information, etc. tRump is just blustering and floundering as usual...
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)BY CALEB ECARMA
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
... By Wednesday afternoon, the president was attempting to backpedal. I dont know who the Proud Boys are, he told reporters. They have to stand down and let law enforcement do their work. He did not condemn the group, which founder Gavin McInnes has described as his gang, explaining its mission statement by saying: We will kill you: thats the Proud Boys in a nutshell. While McInnes has made plenty of vehemently racist comments over the years, including repeatedly saying the N-word and shouting Sieg heil! while throwing up a Nazi salute on air, he appears to be focused on convincing Trump supporters to engage in politically motivated violence. Fighting solves everything. We need more violence from the Trump people, he once said. Trump supporters: choke a motherfucker, choke a bitch, choke a tranny, get your fingers around the windpipe.
... his Republican allies are doubling down on cleanup duty. Some are claiming the president did not seriously mean what he literally said, including first son Donald Trump Jr., who appeared on CBS News shortly after the contest to assert that his father was simply telling the group to stand down, but is more than happy to condemn it, despite not doing so when explicitly asked to. I think he misspoke in response to Chris Wallaces comment, Senator Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, told reporters on Wednesday morning. I think he misspoke. I think he should correct it. If he doesnt correct it, I guess he didnt misspeak. Chris Christie, a former Trump adviser and governor of New Jersey, told ABCs George Stephanopoulos that he heard it differently, adding, I didnt read it that way, George, but listen, if you want to read it that way thats your prerogative.
... Brian Kilmeade, the cohost of one of Trumps favorite Fox News programs, criticized Trump for blowing the biggest layup in the history of debates by not condemning white supremacists ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/donald-trump-proud-boys-debate-moment-snowballing
keithbvadu2
(37,011 posts)What Trump really meant to say
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)By Paul P. Murphy, CNN
Updated 7:17 PM ET, Wed September 30, 2020
Members of the far-right group the Proud Boys are celebrating comments made by President Donald Trump after he was asked to condemn White supremacists, and refused to do so, during Tuesday's presidential debate.
The President instead used his allotted time to blame what he called "antifa and the left" for violence and to tell the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" ...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/proud-boys-trump-debate-trnd/index.html
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)A year before President Donald Trump alarmed Americans with talk of disputing elections last week, his team started building a massive legal network to do just that.
Dozens of lawyers from three major law firms have been hired. Thousands of volunteer attorneys and poll watchers across the country have been recruited. Republicans are preparing prewritten legal pleadings that can be hurried to the courthouse the day after the election, as wrangling begins over close results and a crush of mail-in ballots. Attorneys from non-battleground states, including California, New York and Illinois, are being dispatched to more competitive areas and trained on local election laws.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/27/trump-legal-network-election-day-fight-422035
IMO, this is truly bothersome.