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Poll watching is very important. I was living in a purple county (now solid blue) during the Bush elections and the first thing the Dems did was send all the GOP poll watchers (you have to be registered and publicly identified) a threatening legal letter implying that they were engaging in voter intimidation. Furthermore, virtually all of the Dem poll watchers in the precincts were either attorneys or law professors from the university, who sat and stared at the GOP poll watchers.

I actually did object to one thing, which was that a nursing home aide was bringing in a group of elderly people and “voting” them, that is, saying they needed assistance so that she could go in and tell them how to vote. The staff from a large facility for the developmentally disabled was doing the same…they had all been bused there by the union to which the aides belonged. The precinct captain did intervene, because only a few of the “voters” were recorded as having requested assistance, and the aides were just going in with every one of them. Now Florida has a law against the same individual “assisting” a group of voters, since it was a common problem observed by the poll watchers.

In the post-Bush election, I was living in another county (much redder) and the Dems had little chance…so mysteriously, a couple of days before the elections, the entire poll-watcher database was destroyed. The GOP election headquarters weren’t exactly cutting edge on their security, and somehow the system had been infiltrated and the lists of the poll watchers, their credentials and their polling place assignments was destroyed.

All they had left was a list of names and email addresses, so while they told us simply to go to the nearest polling place, we weren’t official because you can only work in the polling place to which you are assigned. So we were told to report any irregularities to the RNC - in DC! Supposedly they had a hotline and were coordinating with the state and local GOP offices. They probably did have a hot-line: exactly one, because we were never able to get through.

The GOP had no plan, no technology, nothing in place to deal with any problems. And it looks like they still don’t.

After the Dems lost the second Bush election, btw, I happened to be sitting near a group of the local Dem Party heads having coffee - and I overheard one say, “we’ve got to start getting our plan together.” And they were talking about their plan for getting even more control over the next Presidentials, 4 years away.

So that’s why the Dems win. They cheat…and they plan it well in advance, fully aware that the GOP never has a plan and will never fight back.

I’m hoping that’s changing now. And it definitely needs troops on the ground…being a poll-watcher is very important. The last shift of poll watchers also accompanies the ballots and the tabulated totals to the board of elections and formally turns them over. This is very, very important.

We have to volunteer and push for local organization or we will lose due to cheating. After the Virginia election, Biden’s helpers in the press started screaming about our getting involved in elections - you KNOW this had to come from the White House and the DNC in their talking points to their slavish media followers. They are upset because it was effective. There are a number of volunteer R organizers around the country who are pushing for involvement - check out Scott Presler in Virginia who goes nationwide and was recognized by Trump at the White House. He has amazing social media talents for getting our side involved. We owe it to the 13 dead at the Kabul Airport and the tens of thousands who went before them with far greater sacrifices than showing up for a few days and volunteering to ensure the sanctity of the elections.