Watch Steve Bannon’s War Room; he provides examples of how if we are going to save this country, we have to volunteer and get involved in local politics. For example, in Virginia in the election prior to Youngkin’s victory, the Rs had 10-15 percent of the polls covered with poll watchers. This election, there was a spontaneous uprising of volunteers and the number of polls covered went to 93 percent. Look at the results!
By the time I was in the 1st grade I knew dead people could vote.
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.
Exactly. Two words precinct project. Virginia proved that in EVEN THE INNER CITIES fraud can be addressed with enough MAGA election volunteers.
I did a post yesterday to see how many FREEPERS are following Bannon and the number is around 20% or less.
So they are not aware of the huge shift in minority polls or how great the upcoming election is looking (100 seats for 100 years!).
This explains why everyone around here is so bummed out.