If you live in PA and experience a voter challenge or witness voter intimidation

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PLEASE READ in preparation....and save this link.

http://b.3cdn.net/advancement/87447cc3911e5f2426_7am6bngee.pdf

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1. Nice

Thank you

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2. If you are a Philadelphia resident

see this - https://www.seventy.org/tools/elections-voting/voter-rights-and-responsibilities4

https://www.seventy.org/uploads/files/735727809430895315-nov2016-english-voter-rights-and-resp-card.pdf

Any issues should be reported to the Philadelphia County Board of Elections @ 215-686-1590.

More -

Philly Voice

October 07, 2016
What are poll watchers, and what can (and can't) they do in Pennsylvania?

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Poll watchers are regulated and restricted from certain actions, but new legislation could relax one of their key requirements. These watchers are party volunteers who spend election days in Pennsylvania and across the country looking for potential voting and campaigning violations at polling places. They can issue "good-faith challenges" to individual voters based on residency or identity, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.

Watchers must remain six feet from the voting area, and can not interact with voters directly. Instead, they must bring prospective challenges to the judge of elections. Each party is allowed three watchers per polling station, and each candidate can designate two watchers, according to the state department. However, only one per party and one per candidate are allowed inside a polling location at a time. These regulations and restrictions are summarized in the video below from the Pennsylvania Department of State's website.

Poll watchers currently must live in the county in which they operate, but new legislation could change that. House Bill 29 would allow watchers to volunteer in any county in the state, as long as they're Pennsylvania residents.

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http://www.phillyvoice.com/what-poll-watchers-can-cant-and-might-be-able-do-pennsylvania/

And regarding that House Bill to import GOP goons into Philly as poll watchers, the authors of various media articles refuse to watch the School House Rock episode about how a bill becomes a law, where the same type of process goes on at the state level as that in the little Bill on Capitol Hill guy's video for the federal level - i.e., passing a bill in the House does NOT make it a law. The same version must pass the state Senate AND the Democratic governor MUST sign it for it to go into effect. And having to dig around for Wolf's take on the GOP goon bill, I found this (local York, PA Fox affiliate) -

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However, Gov. Wolf is opposed to the bill, fearing it would lead to voter intimidation.

"Through existing law, there are already enough stringent controls in place to ensure the integrity of elections in Pennsylvania," said Jeffrey Sheridan, press secretary for the governor.

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http://fox43.com/2016/10/11/state-gop-pushing-poll-watcher-bill-through-house-for-election-day/

The end. Meaning whatever they might pass would be DOA if it reaches the Governor's desk. This is the benefit of control at least one branch of government here.

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3. We're getting trained on this next weekend

Am a poll watcher and have been for many years.

What's sad is that I used to take pride in sitting with the Republicans in the Fire Hall or local church after the polls closed, looking at each absentee ballot and coming to agreement - "Yup, that's one for Bush" or "Straight Democratic" and we both kept a tally, and at the end, it usually agreed (and if it didn't, we'd go through a quick re-count) Then we both looked at the tape when they opened the machines, and agreed on the totals we saw, and wrote them down to send to our precinct captains.

It was nice to imagine Dems and Reps all over the country doing this is fire halls and church basements in cities and farm communities.

Now Trump is telling his deplorables to turn poll-watching into an intimidation racket.

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4. Thanks for the link!