Report from a trusted friend about Democratic efforts at combating voter harassment.
He works with elected Democrats. He is part of a network organized by Party insiders to respond to reports of voter harassment throughout the nation. Trusted people are working phone shifts covering specified regions. I am unclear how many people may be covering the same regions simultaneously. I think he said he personally handled responses to 50 reports of voter intimidation this morning.
He says there have been numerous incidents reported nationally that have led to hundreds of actual arrests, including intimidating behavior by those with guns and those physically making access to polling locations hard or impossible. BUT he assures me that this is NOT bad news because in reality Democrats had carefully prepared for these type problems and these incidents are being dealt with effectively. A LOT of advance planning went into preparing responses to voter harassment, he said, down to the level of knowing ahead of time who in which law enforcement agencies would respond positively to requests for intervention. He assured me that, specifically, PA's Attorney General is extremely well prepared for this, and highly effective at shutting down harassment.
His overall message was, hey, we knew this was inevitable but we planned for this down to the smallest detail and that planning is paying off and problems ARE being dealt with efficiently and effectively when they emerge. He is not freaked out about all of the issues they are being forced to deal with because the systems they put in place to deal with them are functioning exactly as planned for.
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Thank you for your report! Most appreciated! 
