you do know that you can challenge a person at the poll to make them prove who they are...

[WCGreen]

I wonder if in highly GOP precincts if we had people challenging every voter that comes into the polling place...

Just a thought.

They do this all the time in Urban polling locations, causing a whole lot of AA's not to vote, scare them away.

I wonder if we shouldn't do the same....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Maybe we should...

Have the Democrats ever done that?

I haven't heard of it.


But if we do that, then we become like them...

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. You Would Not Last Two Minutes Before

they called the cops and you were arrested or tasered out of your wits. A lot of cops are on their side even though the GOP would take their pensions.

[elleng]

3. I will be trained in 'voter protection' Friday,

and expect and hope that we will be trained to assure that no one DOES challenge anyone at the polls, to 'prove who they are.'

I hope to assure that 'they' don't do this, and hope that we don't try it either.

[WCGreen]

4. they would send teams of white guys dressed in suits and challenge everybody

who came into the polling place.

It was favorite target of getting AA turnout lower than needed...

[elleng]

5. I'm sure that's true.

Over MY dead body this year!!!

[xfundy]

6. Could you not just stand near the table and

say, "I'm just observing."? With phonecam in hand, maybe seeing the same three or four people come through the line again and again, but staying outside the room where the machines are? No cams in the booth areas, of course, but, in the registration area?

I'm in a solid red prison, but how could that possibly allow for calling cops or repug thugs, if I, as a citizen, decide to watch the polling place, and record it on my phone?

[former-republican]

7. What do you mean challenge a person?

Doesn't your state request ID before voting?

And do mean just stand outside a polling place and ask random people (who are you ) ?

I would tell someone to stick it up their ass if some joe outside a polling station asked me this.

[WCGreen]

8. What they do is stand by the table where they check in and ask the people to prove who they are....

this is what the GOP is basically doing now in Ohio, making the AA's to prove who they are...

I'm just pointing it out that people could do the same in heavily GOP areas to do the same.

It legal in Ohio.

[Le Taz Hot]

9. And a few more thoughts:

1) Average citizens do not have a legal right to demand that you show your I.D. and that's all a poll watcher is an average person. I understand in some states, you have to show your I.D. to vote, but the person asking must be a precinct worker and would be given the authority by the County Elections office.
2) Poll watchers don't request I.D.'s. Poll watchers go to a designated polling place, look at the roster of voters registered to vote in that precinct and report in to party headquarters what voter turnout is like throughout the day. It has nothing to do with requesting I.D.'s
3) Doing the same things the Republicans do only makes two wrongs and two wrongs never did make a right.