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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,005 posts)
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 01:47 PM Oct 2016

Trump’s Call to Monitor Polls Raises Fears of Intimidation

Warning darkly of a stolen election, Donald J. Trump has called on supporters to turn out in droves on Election Day to monitor polling places, telling them they need to be vigilant against widespread voter fraud and a rigged outcome.

“Voter fraud is all too common, and then they criticize us for saying that,” he said at a rally Tuesday in Colorado Springs. “But take a look at Philadelphia, what’s been going on, take a look at Chicago, take a look at St. Louis. Take a look at some of these cities, where you see things happening that are horrendous.”

His language has stirred increasing fears of intimidation of minorities inside polling places, where their qualifications to vote could be challenged, or outside, where they would face illegal electioneering.

But as Mr. Trump casts doubt on the integrity of the presidential election, there are no signs of a wave of Trump poll watchers building. Like much else about his campaign, his call to “get everybody to go out and watch” the polls seems to be a Potemkin effort, with little or no organization behind it.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump%e2%80%99s-call-to-monitor-polls-raises-fears-of-intimidation/ar-AAj7eR4?li=BBnbcA1

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,714 posts)
2. This is disgusting, but in reality I tend to doubt
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 01:50 PM
Oct 2016

that very many of those overweight middle-aged faux patriots have the guts to show up at polling places in the inner city.

RKP5637

(67,109 posts)
4. If they bothered me, I would loudly tell them to fuck off. Also, isn't it illegal to bother
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 01:57 PM
Oct 2016

anyone within so many feet of a polling place? Maybe it varies place to place. One place I lived had signs up telling these critters to leave people alone, it was illegal to bother them.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,714 posts)
5. Most states have rules about how close so-called poll-watchers can be.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 02:05 PM
Oct 2016

Usually it's something like 100 feet, and I don't know of any place where they can actually be inside the polling place (though there might be such places) where they can approach voters. But the idea, apparently, is to stand around outside that place and look menacingly "official." It won't work, of course.

RKP5637

(67,109 posts)
7. I would never show them anything. Like they expect me to show them my driver's license,
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 02:23 PM
Oct 2016

birth certificate, whatever, like yeah, right. They're also way too stupid looking to look menacing "official. We can spot them a mile away. And many of them walk stupidly, and can't see their toes.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,714 posts)
9. Nobody should ever give any information to these goons.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 04:08 PM
Oct 2016

The only people who are entitled to any information about you are the people who are actually managing the polls, and even they can't have more than the law allows.

Cha

(297,258 posts)
3. Yeah, 'cause that's what #fubar is trying to do.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 01:52 PM
Oct 2016

Big bully predator.. he does this now. Can imagine what he'f do if.. No, I can't even write that.

gordianot

(15,238 posts)
6. I have always been curious how anyone would ever be intimidated at the polls?
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 02:08 PM
Oct 2016

Just how do you monitor an election when you you are an ignorant knuckle dragger Trump supporter and not get reported to the police standing outside the polling place enforcing no electioneering rules? At least that is the way it works where I vote. The nice little elderly Democratic and Republican poll worker volunteer ladies ask you to remove buttons before you go into the booth about as confrontational as it gets.

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