http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/the_texas_democratic_party_expanded.phpChad Dunn, a lawyer who is representing the Texas Democratic Party, told TPMMuckraker a number of witnesses have been interviewed by Civil Rights Division lawyers already. "We've gotten a number of reports -- quite a few out of the Houston area -- that poll watchers, King Street Patriot training poll watchers, are following a voter after they've checked them out and stand right behind them," Dunn said. There's at least a dozen reports that they could confirm with witnesses, he said. "Interestingly, it's all in the polling places in Hispanic and African-American areas," he added.
Terry O'Rourke, the first assistant in the Harris County Attorney's office, told TPMMuckraker that there have been allegations of poll watchers talking to voters, which they are not allowed to do, as well as hovering over voters as they are waiting to vote. He said the complaints came from Kashmere Gardens, Moody Park, Sunnyside and other predominantly minority neighborhoods of the county.
"There are far more poll watchers in this election than we've ever had before. The Republican Party has 300 poll watchers on their ready list," O'Rourke said. He can't say for certain that they are connected to the Tea Party. "None of the people who walk in the door have Tea Party buttons on," he said.