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Nevilledog

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Wed Jun 1, 2022, 01:12 PM Jun 2022

'It's going to be an army': Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections



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Eric Swalwell
@ericswalwell
Read this and understand as hard as we fought in 2020, we are going to have to fight 10x harder in 2022 and 2024. The entire Republican Party apparatus is mobilized and organized determined to end democracy as we know it. That’s not hyperbole, it’s fact.

politico.com
‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections
Placing operatives as poll workers and building a "hotline" to friendly attorneys are among the strategies to be deployed in Michigan and other swing states.
10:09 AM · Jun 1, 2022


https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758


Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts: Install trained recruits as regular poll workers and put them in direct contact with party attorneys.

The plan, as outlined by a Republican National Committee staffer in Michigan, includes utilizing rules designed to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places, developing a website to connect those workers to local lawyers and establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts.

“Being a poll worker, you just have so many more rights and things you can do to stop something than [as] a poll challenger,” said Matthew Seifried, the RNC’s election integrity director for Michigan, stressing the importance of obtaining official designations as poll workers in a meeting with GOP activists in Wayne County last Nov. 6. It is one of a series of recordings of GOP meetings between summer of 2021 and May of this year obtained by POLITICO.

Backing up those front-line workers, “it’s going to be an army,” Seifried promised at an Oct. 5 training session. “We’re going to have more lawyers than we’ve ever recruited, because let’s be honest, that’s where it’s going to be fought, right?”

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'It's going to be an army': Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections (Original Post) Nevilledog Jun 2022 OP
If they try that shit in my district louis-t Jun 2022 #1
Do we have any laws on the books to take action before they do? Baitball Blogger Jun 2022 #2
I am a poll worker. I'm not sure what they think they can do to people there Arazi Jun 2022 #3
So if they can get away with this.... TheRealNorth Jun 2022 #4

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
3. I am a poll worker. I'm not sure what they think they can do to people there
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 01:58 PM
Jun 2022

Are they planning on intimidating people? That won’t work because the senior poll workers will shut that shit down pretty fast. The process for voting is fairly straightforward and the problems on voting day are usually minimal

TheRealNorth

(9,435 posts)
4. So if they can get away with this....
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 03:05 PM
Jun 2022

Can we send our Democrats from urban areas to police the Republicans voting in rural areas? Only seems fair as much of the election fraud in the past 5 years has come from rural areas, and I bet there is a lot more that we haven't caught.

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