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California warns local election officials to prepare for potential disruption, threats at polls
ktla ^ | 10/08/2020

Posted on 10/09/2020 7:51:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin

In a tense political climate, California is taking an unusual step and warning local election officials to prepare for disruption at polling places and potential cases of voters being intimidated or blocked from casting ballots.

In a memo this week, the Secretary of State’s office reminded county election officials it is a felony for any person to possess a firearm at a voting location or in the immediate vicinity, unless authorized.

It’s also illegal to threaten anyone in an attempt to discourage them from voting.

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


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: disruption; electionday; polls; threats

1 posted on 10/09/2020 7:51:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I’m surprised about this. I thought that the authorities in California would describe such behaviour as peaceful protests.


2 posted on 10/09/2020 7:53:20 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: BenLurkin

Funny how this crap only happens in leftist states. And they continue to call us the violent ones.


3 posted on 10/09/2020 7:53:39 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot acceptI)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Maybe I should volunteer to be a poll watcher. Hmm.


4 posted on 10/09/2020 7:53:55 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: BenLurkin

So they’re going to shut down Republican district voting with pretended “threats” perceived by Dem actors.

Got it.

They want you to mail in your votes so they can throw them away.


5 posted on 10/09/2020 7:55:37 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: OttawaFreeper

They are not talking about “urban” voting places. Or when the violence is threatened by the left.


6 posted on 10/09/2020 7:55:47 AM PDT by henkster ("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
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To: BenLurkin

Meanwhile in my little slice of North Dakota, there will be an elderly couple offering coffee and cookies to people waiting in line to vote.


7 posted on 10/09/2020 7:57:10 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: LIConFem
"And they continue to call us the violent ones."

But of course that's their modus operandi. It's straight out of Rules for Radicals to accuse the other side of what you're doing.

8 posted on 10/09/2020 8:03:19 AM PDT by Savage Beast (America is in a Manichaean struggle between Good and Evil. Pray for the triumph of President Trump.)
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To: BenLurkin

If they block Trump voters or disrupt one’s ability to cast a ballot for President Trump, they and their candidate should be charged with a federal crime.


9 posted on 10/09/2020 8:11:09 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: LIConFem

The “wargames” sessions which John Podesta attended included these-——

David Brooks’s in NYT, “What Will You Do if Trump Doesn’t Leave?” .... “If Trump claims a victory that is not rightly his, a few marches in the streets will not be an adequate response....” “There may have to be a sustained campaign of civic action, as in Hong Kong and Belarus, to rally the majority that wants to preserve democracy, that isolates those who would undo it.”

And also this pre-violence scenario discussed by NYT writer Ben Smith
Aug.2, 2020 (on his Twitter account)
....(here reported by New Republic ——
“ During the Transition Integrity Project’s simulation of this election in June, Podesta played a Joe Biden who’d won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College, just as Clinton did. He refused to concede.

“In that scenario, California, Oregon, and Washington then threatened to secede from the United States if Mr. Trump took office as planned,” The New York Times’ Ben Smith wrote last month. “The House named Mr. Biden president; the Senate and White House stuck with Mr. Trump. At that point in the scenario, the nation stopped looking to the media for cues, and waited to see what the military would do.”


10 posted on 10/09/2020 8:19:19 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger
California, Oregon, and Washington then threatened to secede


11 posted on 10/09/2020 8:26:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: olivia3boys

Yes, please do. Anyone who is available to needs to volunteer as poll watchers or workers.

You can be a poll watcher too as an independent citizen there ot record any concerns. Don’t need permission, I wouldn’t think. As long as not interfering with legal process or influencing voters.


12 posted on 10/09/2020 8:33:27 AM PDT by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump)
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To: BenLurkin

This is a great graphic


13 posted on 10/09/2020 8:39:17 AM PDT by funfan
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To: BenLurkin

RE: CA,OR,WA threatened to secede reply gif “well....”
//////////////////////
LOL.

Somebody interviewed about secession possibilities a few weeks ago quipped: “If California really does secede I doubt all over America people will say No, No, don’t do it. Come back, California. Come back.”

No offense to our beloved CA FReepers and homebase. All in fun.


14 posted on 10/09/2020 8:40:18 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

If California secedes from the Union, then a large part of the state will secede from California, calling it the state of “Jefferson”.

(That’s how West Virginia was created).


15 posted on 10/09/2020 8:50:05 AM PDT by reagandemocrat (Living underground in Vichy California)
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To: reagandemocrat

Yes, part of the new three CA states with 2 Senators each, federal aid, and electoral votes.

Proudly standing with Samoa, Puerto Rico and DC in the new Marxist Peoples’ Socialist Union of North America.


16 posted on 10/09/2020 8:58:15 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: BenLurkin

Liberals can surgically pinpoint where and when ‘violence’ and disruption can be expected... because THEY are planning it.

See?


17 posted on 10/09/2020 9:02:41 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Barbarism is the absence of standards to which an appeal can be made" Y Gasset)
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To: frank ballenger

“ Come back, California. Come back.”

They will be returned as territories, cleansed of illegals, and under control of appointed territorial governors an the US Army. Only handfuls of people will need to be interned and fewer hanged.


18 posted on 10/09/2020 2:48:52 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: VanShuyten

Sounds like a good novel plot except we have gone through less shocking twists and turns in the past 2 years. So makes sense.


19 posted on 10/09/2020 3:45:48 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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