Posted on 10/30/2026 11:51:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Citizens groups are volunteering to guard against possible federal interference nationwide
CHANDLER, Ariz. — At balloon-adorned tables in red, white and blue, a handful of voters inside a church gymnasium listened as Medina Moore explained what to do if federal agents show up at the polls.
Call a hotline, she told volunteers, where attorneys will be ready to respond. Take videos, report what you see and remove yourself from any situation that becomes intense, she advised.
It was one of Moore’s final poll monitor trainings in the Phoenix area before election day, preparing a few new “peacekeepers” to join the ranks of about 200 she has recruited from local faith groups in the Phoenix area to greet voters, answer questions and keep an eye out for problems at voting sites on Tuesday.
“It feels very urgent this year,” said Moore, the voting rights organizer for the Arizona Faith Network, a coalition of religious groups. “We’re in an era of information overload. Being able to educate voters on what’s true and what’s not is very important.”
As lawyers nationwide prepare defenses against possible election interference by the Trump administration and election officials train for worst-case scenarios, ordinary citizens across the country are also readying to help. Through nonpartisan groups, parents are training to be poll monitors, law students are staffing legal hotlines, veterans are holding voting events and business owners are signing pledges to back local election officials.
The grassroots efforts, underpinned by various voting and democracy nonprofits, amount to a striking push by American voters to help uphold the nation’s election system in the face of possible threats from its own government. More than 21,000 people nationwide have been trained as nonpartisan poll monitors through the Election Protection coalition, the program that Moore used, along with thousands...
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Smells like insurrection.
Corruption protection.
How dare you interfere with the Dems cheating in the elections.
RE: preparing a few new “peacekeepers” to join the ranks
Here again is the polling place protection we all need, thanks to the armed Black Panthers. /S
another democrat brainwashing operation probably paid for with tax-dollars.
The coast is not clear!!!
The coast is not clear!!!
This shit started when o💩 hired black panthers to intimidate voters in Philadelphia.
Why do they keep using such a nonsensical term? No one denies there was an election, they just dispute the results.
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