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U.S. civil rights groups to fan out on Nov. 8 to fight voter intimidation
Reuters ^ | 10-18-2016 | Andy Sullivan

Posted on 10/19/2016 12:09:11 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Donald Trump supporters who plan to stake out polling sites on Election Day may find their own activities tracked closely by thousands of civil-rights activists who are mounting a nationwide effort to prevent problems at the polls.

The Republican presidential candidate, who has repeatedly said that the election is rigged, has urged his backers to monitor voting sites for evidence of fraud, raising concerns that overzealous supporters could intimidate voters in the Nov. 8 election.

They will not be the only ones out in force on Election Day. Civil rights groups say they plan to deploy thousands of volunteers on the ground in 27 states to ensure that voters will not be turned away by harassment, long lines or confusing rules. Teams of lawyers will file legal challenges if necessary.

While previous elections have been marred by irregularities, Trump's rhetoric might lead to greater problems at the polls this year, activists say.

"When Trump says, 'Go and watch certain areas of Philadelphia,' that's either intentionally reckless or it's a thinly veiled call to engage in racial profiling," said Dale Ho, the head of the American Civil Liberties Union's voting rights project. "Whether people heed it, I don't know."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aclu; fraud; illegal; soros; trump; votefraud; voterfraud
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Correct Title should be:

"Soros-Funded Orgs fan out to protect Fraudulent, Illegal Voters!"

1 posted on 10/19/2016 12:09:13 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

Good. With all this publicity, it will be difficult to conduct voter fraud. There will be a lot of people with camers (on both sides). It will be difficult to have a bus of Democrat voters shuttle around the city, voting numerous times.


2 posted on 10/19/2016 12:12:04 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: tcrlaf
Thugs:

Worship:

3 posted on 10/19/2016 12:17:45 AM PDT by Ray76
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To: Cowboy Bob

Exactly. Someone will be watching the Watchers, watch the Watchers. It sounds like an old Dean Koontz horror novel.


4 posted on 10/19/2016 12:20:35 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

The more the merrier!


5 posted on 10/19/2016 12:31:55 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Cowboy Bob

GOP’s always short on poll watchers...


6 posted on 10/19/2016 12:34:36 AM PDT by piasa
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To: tcrlaf

Any bus showing up at a polling place ought to be followed, to make sure it isn’t stopping at every polling place in the county... Well, it has been reported that that is one of the tricks the America haters use to rig the polls.


7 posted on 10/19/2016 12:53:17 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: piasa

Yes they are (always short on poll watchers). We need an ARMY of willing poll watchers as Mr. Trump says.

This is just MORE Demonrat BS in order to conduct voter fraud en masse.

I hope Mr. Trump will also have a team of lawyers lined up to contest the obvious voter fraud charges that will be put against Repub poll watchers who do get out there and help deter vote fraud.


8 posted on 10/19/2016 12:55:12 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: tcrlaf

It’s pretty well much set in stone what a poll watcher can and cannot do. Now they’re mounting an intimidation force to suppress or then interfere with legitimate poll watchers.

They’re running scared. They know there will be extra scrutiny at the polls, but I think it’s the early and mail in vote is where the big swings in numbers occur.


9 posted on 10/19/2016 1:13:11 AM PDT by Fhios ( Globalism is the new Communism - Islamism is the new Fascism.)
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To: tcrlaf
Many black voters are voting for Hillary: Before they vote, they should consider that access to President Hillary's White House will not be as easy as it was with Obama. Hillary is a very private person.

1. Before they vote for Hillary, they should think about how Hillary's middle- East refugee policy and her Mexican open-border policy will change their lives and the lives of their children forever. Maybe for the worse.

2. When they think about Hillary, Blacks should also think about the following places:

3. Dearborn, Michigan 5% black 10 miles from Detroit

Northern Virginia.

Florida, especially South Florida

4. Dearborn, Michigan is a good example of how Hillary's and Obama’s very active Middle-East Refugee Program are bad for blacks in Dearborn, Michigan and elsewhere.

5. Dearborn 100,000 population

6. Only 10 miles from heavily black Detroit.

7. 40 % claim middle-East background.

8. 5 % claim African-American background, Why isn't it larger, especially since Dearborn is only 10 miles from Detroit with its large black population? Something is wrong here.

9. If Hillary increases the number of Middle-East refugees after she is elected, I wonder how many will find their way to Dearborn and its large Mid-East population? I bet a lot.

10. MY POINT IS THIS: Under President Hillary, it will be easier for Middle-East refugees to travel from the middle-East and receive USA benefits than it is for Detroit blacks to move and work in Dearborn, only 10 miles from Detroit.

11. Just wondering: Is there some unspoken agreement among Dearborn leaders to discourage Detroit blacks from living and working in Dearborn, while, on the other hand, these same leaders encourage people from the middle-east to live and work there.

I wonder if Jews are encouraged to live and work in heavily Muslim Dearborn and the rest of Michigan, or are they discouraged from living and working in Dearborn?

NOTE: To me, Dearborn is a segregated city, no doubt about it. And nobody complains about it. only 10 miles from Detroit, and only a 5 % African-American population? The FBI should investigate.

NOTE: To blacks in Michigan, go ahead and vote for Hillary if you want more and more Muslim middle-east refugees to move to Dearborn.

12. NORTHERN VIRGINIA and how Hillary's immigration open border policy will hurt black opportunities in Virginia.

13. Northern Virginia already has one of the largest illegal immigration populations in the country. And it has one of the largest communities from El Salvador.

14. My point is this: If blacks in Virginia think it is hard to find a job and decent housing in northern Virginia now,
especially if they don't speak Spanish, they will see how harder it will be to find a decent job once Hillary's open door policy along the Mexican border goes into effect and her amnesty plan floods Virginia with immigrants from Central America and the middle -East.

15. Again, if you are a black person in Virginia who moves to Northern Virginia looking for work and housing, forget it once Hillary opens the borders to anyone from Central America.

16. So if you are a black person in Virginia and you want to make it harder to find a job in northern Virginia, then go ahead and vote for Hillary and her open border policy.

17. FLORIDA especially South Florida: New immigrants will make it much harder for blacks to compete for jobs and housing, especially if they don't speak Spanish.

18. Are blacks in Florida finding it difficult to find a decent job, especially if they don't speak Spanish.
19. Let's take a quick look at how Hillary's open door immigration policy and amnesty policy will do damage to black lives in Florida.

20. To blacks in Florida, I say this: Where do you think the immigrants from the following countries will be headed after they cross the border? It is not California or Texas. Most of them will go to Florida.

Haitians: I understand that there is a large group of Haitians waiting on the Mexican border getting ready to enter the United States when President Hillary says it is alright.

a. Guatemala

b. El Salvador

c. Honduras

d. Nicaragua

e. Panama

21. Once they arrive in Florida. They have to live somewhere. At first, they will move into cheaper historically black neighborhoods. Do you think that they will move into historically white-Cuban neighborhoods.

I don't think that white Cuban neighborhoods will greet these new immigrants with open arms just because they speak Spanish. They might even have trouble moving into growing Puerto Rican neighborhoods.

They have to work somewhere, so they will take jobs that were historically held by African-Americans.

A warning: If you are black in Florida and you work for a company owned by a Spanish -speaking person, get ready to look for another job once Hillary opens the floodgates along the Mexican border, because the Spanish-speaking owner will want to hire other Spanish-speaking workers.

I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary's government pays Spanish-speaking owners a fee to hire new immigrants.

22. My point is this: once blacks are forced out of historically black neighborhoods in Florida by new immigrants, where will they go?

Will Hillary's open border policies and amnesty program force Florida blacks from their historically black neighborhoods and from their jobs?

23. To black voters for Hillary in Florida: Go ahead and vote for Hillary if you were happy under 8 years of Obama’s policies, and if you want your historically black neighborhoods to disappear under Hillary's open-door immigration policy on the Mexican border?

24. What is going on in Hillary's diabolical mind?

I think that President Hillary is going to THROW BLACKS UNDER THE BUS who live in Michigan, Virginia, and Florida in order to put her Central American immigration and her middle-eastern refugee program into action, while at the same time, she avoids compensating blacks in those states to help them deal with their new housing and financial problems.

( Do African-Americans really believe that Bill and Abedin care about what happens to African-Americans?) I don't think so. They care more about Central American immigrants and muslim refugees from the middle East.

Remember blacks in Michigan, Virginia, and Florida: If you vote for Hillary, you are voting for what I call the 3-headed monster of Hillary, bill, and Abedin. So Good luck if you vote for Hillary.

10 posted on 10/19/2016 1:16:16 AM PDT by john mirse
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I’m fed up with Democrats. They’re taking one of our most sacred rights as Americans, the right to vote, and making an absolute mockery of it. That Democrat bus in Georgia caught dumping human waste is so symbolic, isn’t it? Democrats are committing massive fraud and everybody and their mother knows it, but they don’t give a sh** because they know nobody on our side is going to stop them.


11 posted on 10/19/2016 1:17:26 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: tcrlaf

Having poll watchers to fight fraud is a constitutionally-guaranteed right.


12 posted on 10/19/2016 1:25:09 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: tcrlaf
civil-rights activists

Apparently Trump supporters don't have 'civil-rights'

13 posted on 10/19/2016 1:25:14 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: dowcaet

You’re so right.

In our county in NC, (Wake County - near Raleigh) voter fraud was found during the Bush election cycles by poll watchers. (I don’t remember it all but I know that illegals were bused into polling places - and drove up to do curbside voting where ballots were passed around inside a van full of illegals) and at some polling places in certain neighborhoods, voters had outsiders come alongside of them and walk them into a voting booth to “help” them vote for Algore.

These instances and others were reported but the only thing that happened that I can remember is the Board of Elections had an investigation AFTER the election. NOTHING HAPPENED about the fraud.


14 posted on 10/19/2016 1:35:16 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: tcrlaf

This is a damn joke after democrat goons have disrupted the political process by planting operatives at Trump rallies to incite violence and blame Trump supporters.


15 posted on 10/19/2016 2:19:31 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Stay ignorant, my friends! (if you watch mainstream media, you will!))
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16 posted on 10/19/2016 2:22:20 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: tcrlaf

They want to be sure no one needs to prove eligibility to vote Leftist.


17 posted on 10/19/2016 2:28:44 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: lee martell
Thy don't want us to catch them committing voter fraud so Soros will probably dispatch his BLM'ers to swarm the polling places to provide cover for thousands of illegals bused in from Mexico full of newly registered illegals. We almost need cams inside the polling places looking out to deal with a situation like that. Funny what lengths the Dems will go to, to cheat. Then to top it off the supreme lying commander in chief, master of art of cheating has the gall to tell Trump he's worrying about nothing because it doesnt happen:
18 posted on 10/19/2016 2:38:15 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: tcrlaf

I think their real purpose is to intimidate poll watchers. They’re going to steal the election.


19 posted on 10/19/2016 3:32:41 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: tcrlaf

Having Trump supporters could scare away the Soros supporters and possible voter away.


20 posted on 10/19/2016 3:50:34 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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