deserve credit. The TX righties didn't show up to monitor the polls anywhere in the city that I observed, but my point was they were threatening to come into our neighborhoods to watch for 'illegal' voters, while simultaneously threatening to make poll watching dangerous for U.N. election people who had been invited to observe in TX, to protect some worried voters' rights.
One of my polls in '12 was a 98% Black population housing project, and a young white couple came in, saying he wasn't registered, but had a photo ID, and that the young woman had just voted elsewhere with just her photo i.d., and he was supposed to be voting at this polling place. He was a very agro young guy, obviously wasn't from the neighborhood that was supposed to vote at that poll location. The woman in charge was hobbling around in a leg brace, she had torn a ligament dodging spill over gunfire that wasn't meant for her, a couple of weeks earlier. She told him he wasn't in the registration book, he couldn't vote there, but she had forms that he could fill out to vote next time or use to look up voting info on line. He instantly dismissed her offer, saying he knew all about the info she was trying to give him, and left without voting. He knew all about the info, but hadn't bothered to comply with the registration rules he had known all about. Looked like he was there to 'prove' that you could vote at that location without being registered, and to make the point that HE had repug-approved voter ID, so he should be allowed to vote unlike the residents there who didn't have the id the state gop was now trying to make mandatory for voters.
Fear of their crazy threats shouldn't be overwhelming, I don't think, but people should be ready for them to try to pull whatever stupid and unreasonable thing they think they can get away with, anywhere in the country. Just like every other election where the repug party is involved. I don't know what you're referring to that Nader did, Goth, but have followed the changes the R controlled states have pushed through the second the VRA enforcement was nullified by the 5 Supreme Court gopers. They haven't gotten away with any new restrictions in PA, but we dumped our repug gov 2 years ago, so they couldn't change things here as they've done elsewhere where they're completely in charge.
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