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Controversial Pro-Trump Group Warns Members to Avoid Election Day Meddling
Source: ABC News
Controversial Pro-Trump Group Warns Members to Avoid Election Day Meddling
By JOHN KRUZEL - Nov 7, 2016, 6:41 PM ET
Stop the Steal, a controversial political group affiliated with Trump backer Roger Stone and the target of active Democratic lawsuits, has issued fresh guidance ahead of Election Day to a network of volunteer poll monitors, in an apparent effort to avoid running afoul of voting rights laws.
For weeks, the group has used incendiary rhetoric to motivate members to turn up at contested areas tomorrow to participate in a survey of voters leaving polling places. But after Democrats sued the group for alleged conspiracy to intimidate minority voters, Stop the Steal is now warning poll monitors against speaking to voters before ballots are cast, entering polling places, or wearing displays that promote a candidate.
Stop the Steal and Stone have come under intense scrutiny recently after attorneys for Democratic plaintiffs filed several lawsuits against them, along with the Trump campaign and various Republican state parties. Democrats have accused the defendants of conspiring to interfere with the votes of racial minorities in violation of longstanding civil rights laws dating to the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era through the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
In court filings, Democrats argue Stop the Steal’s exit polling operation serves no legitimate purpose, but is merely a pretext for harassing and intimidating likely Democratic voters of color. They say the ruse goes hand-in-hand with Donald Trump's heated, racially-tinged accusations of vote-rigging and his calls for supporters to monitor voting in “certain areas,” which Democrats argue is code for minority communities.
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But in a sworn affidavit to a Nevada federal court yesterday, Stone promised that Stop the Steal would issue guidance to its volunteers warning against certain conduct that could interfere with voters at polling places, and a list of rules Stone submitted to the court were later posted to stopthesteal.org.
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By JOHN KRUZEL - Nov 7, 2016, 6:41 PM ET
Stop the Steal, a controversial political group affiliated with Trump backer Roger Stone and the target of active Democratic lawsuits, has issued fresh guidance ahead of Election Day to a network of volunteer poll monitors, in an apparent effort to avoid running afoul of voting rights laws.
For weeks, the group has used incendiary rhetoric to motivate members to turn up at contested areas tomorrow to participate in a survey of voters leaving polling places. But after Democrats sued the group for alleged conspiracy to intimidate minority voters, Stop the Steal is now warning poll monitors against speaking to voters before ballots are cast, entering polling places, or wearing displays that promote a candidate.
Stop the Steal and Stone have come under intense scrutiny recently after attorneys for Democratic plaintiffs filed several lawsuits against them, along with the Trump campaign and various Republican state parties. Democrats have accused the defendants of conspiring to interfere with the votes of racial minorities in violation of longstanding civil rights laws dating to the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era through the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
In court filings, Democrats argue Stop the Steal’s exit polling operation serves no legitimate purpose, but is merely a pretext for harassing and intimidating likely Democratic voters of color. They say the ruse goes hand-in-hand with Donald Trump's heated, racially-tinged accusations of vote-rigging and his calls for supporters to monitor voting in “certain areas,” which Democrats argue is code for minority communities.
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But in a sworn affidavit to a Nevada federal court yesterday, Stone promised that Stop the Steal would issue guidance to its volunteers warning against certain conduct that could interfere with voters at polling places, and a list of rules Stone submitted to the court were later posted to stopthesteal.org.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/controversial-pro-trump-group-warns-members-avoid-election/story?id=43372037
