Posted on 06/07/2022 10:16:21 AM PDT by Magnatron
State and local election officials in Michigan and other political battlegrounds are gearing up to deal with a new element in this year's elections: a large influx of Republicans seeking to become poll workers, recruited by the Republican National Committee and other conservative organizations to play an active role in administering the midterm elections. The development -- and a recent story in Politico detailing GOP recruitment sessions and how some of these would-be poll workers cling to debunked claims about fraud in the 2020 election -- have raised alarms that Republican election deniers could infiltrate official election operations and undermine the process.
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"It is jarring to know that there is a political party, or a cohort of a political party, that is feeding folks misinformation and will use that as motivation to potentially interfere with our elections and with citizens' right to vote," Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, told Fredreka in a recent interview.
Benson, who said she has been following the uptick in GOP poll worker applications for weeks as part of her regular discussions with local election officials, met Monday with the state attorney general's office, the Michigan State Police and local officials to discuss, among other topics, how to protect against election interference, her aides said. 'Seat at the same table'
RNC officials say their recruitment drive has a straightforward goal: correcting a longstanding party imbalance in who serves in these roles. At Detroit's TCF Center in 2020, where election workers in the heavily Democratic city counted absentee ballots, Republicans made up 170 of the more than 5,400 poll workers, the RNC said.
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yeah, alarms among the Lefty fraudsters. “Crap, they are on to us!”
LOL, why should they worry if everything is on the up and up?
Ya, we’ve already caught them cheating and the courts won’t do their job to stop them, so now we’ll stop them from cheating in the first place, and THAT has them worried.
how are they supposed to cheat with all those prying eyes?
for about 40 years GOP weren’t allowed due to a lawsuit agreement to really do anything when it came to watching the polls, now that they plan on doing something its “alarming”...
Hopefully this is a practice run for 2024 as the big steal occurred in a half dozen Black Dem cities.
How hilarious!!! The most secure election ever just happened in 2020 without people having eyes on the stolen states. Virginia turned because of poll watchers! With poll watchers the election can only become “more secure” than 2020!! Come on ‘rats! Get with the program.
“Ohnoes! Muh VoteFraud is in jeopardy!!”
A tree in Michigan is missing its Commie.
debunked claims about fraud in the 2020 election..
and I usually stop reading right there.
BUT....
How do they know the applicants are GOP?
I am an Election Judge in my county and I have never been asked about my party affiliation.
RINOs be afraid.
Our side should of been doing this for decades.
My wife is very involved with this and we live in a red state. Wouldn’t mess with her. Lol
Bingo.
That's a headline more preferable than:
"The GOP drive to install thousands of snipers to take out mules making late night ballot drops sets off alarms"
But putting up poster-board over the counting room windows didn’t set off ANY alarms!
It does.
The consent decree would not allow it.
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