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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn the Rachel Maddow Show tonight:
She talks about a funded group called "True the Vote" that stares down people of color or other likely Democratic voters at the polls on election day...they also challenge every suspected Democratic voter. They are planning on having a million poll watchers at the polls this election day. We need to do the same!
Let's see if we can get a grassroots movement going to counteract this sort shit!
Capt.Rocky300
(1,005 posts)in Washington. We vote by mail.
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)btw: I am in Tacoma
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)We have to be ever vigilant. Those republicans would snatch it away from us in a heartbeat if they could.
central scrutinizer
(11,617 posts)Their idea of colored people being intimidated easily is just a teensy bit out of date. They are more likely to get their lily white asses handed back to them.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Maybe it would be fun to be there just to take pictures. My precinct is vote by mail only, so good luck for them doing it to us.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)<--->
The convener of the summit, the Centennial Institute, is a department of Colorado Christian University, a school that blends traditional biblical philosophies with the principles of limited government and free markets. One of the speakers was James Robison, a Texas televangelist who believes the 1 percent are victims of a type of racism. Robinson yelled at the audience that they better learn the language of the poor, or they will destroy our prosperity.
True the Vote was a partner organization of the summit, along with their affiliates Colorado Voter Protection, with whom they shared a table to recruit volunteers. They held an election integrity happy hour at a bar not far from the Christian Summit where attendees could have a free drink and learn how to become citizen-volunteers.
This is how True the Vote has been building its poll-watching army: recruiting from one far-right confab after another.
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Recruits sign up at True the Votes website for online trainings and gain access to voter registration lists in their counties. They look through the lists for names to submit to election officials for purging. This process is playing out now in Tampa, where True the Votes reputation for voter intimidation has followed the RNC to a state already notorious for reckless purging. Come Election Day, theyll deploy to the polls.
We ask anyone and everyone who serves under True The Vote to write down everything they see that looks funny, funky, fraudulent, Ouren told recruits. If something doesnt go right, document it. Gather those incident reports, he urged, and theyll be given to legislators or used for lawsuits. You create the record that debunks so much of the nonsense that says that there is no such thing as voter election fraud.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/08/true_the_votes_large_and_growing_far-right_network.html
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)So,what happens if they encounter an African AMerican whom they suspect will vote Democrat? What do they do? Tackle them? Ask to see their ID? Call the police? What exactly is this intimidation suppose to do? I mean, how do they think it will work?
Raine
(30,540 posts)cheesy intimidation tactics here in Los Angeles County.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)saveferris
(92 posts)Where they are, we are.
Where they trigger trouble, we will end it.
We will shine a light under whatever rock they crawl out of.
Make them fear to show their faces because we will expose them to the world.
dflprincess
(28,057 posts)We can only hope.
ArnoldLayne
(2,060 posts)Please try to get in my face Tea Party Republicans I welcome them.
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)who comes into the Poll that I work (have for 12 years) she was there in March & showed her ID. She was told we don't need to see that. Her comeback was "It's the law". We told her in November, unless the courts find it unconstitutional. We're in PA. I'm hoping that her ID doesn't cut it & she has to vote provisional ballot.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)that there is a suspected rapist hanging around the polling place looking for victims.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)and he's an independent. He loves how she uses her sharp wit to stick it to the corrupt and crazy republicans.
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)couldn't be that they're trying to steal the election