Posted on 10/17/2016 9:55:16 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has spent much of the last several days cementing in the minds of his supporters the idea that the presidential election on November 8 is on the verge of being stolen from him by a “rigged” system. He’s encouraged his supporters to turn out at polling sites where they suspect election fraud might take place in order to fight back against the shadowy cabal he insists stands between him and the White House.
In a widely read story published by the Boston Globe on Saturday, one Trump supporter said he planned to do just that.
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“Trump said to watch your precincts. I’m going to go, for sure,” Steve Webb told reporters Matt Viser and Tracy Jan. “I’ll look for . . . well, it’s called racial profiling. Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American.... I’m going to go right up behind them. I’ll do everything legally. I want to see if they are accountable. I’m not going to do anything illegal. I’m going to make them a little bit nervous.”
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Within the past day or two, I saw an article in which DEMOCRATIC operatives said they would be closely monitoring the polls on election day. Are the Fiscal Times and Yahoo worried about THEM risking jail time?
Did not know that. Thanks.
“In 2004, we had a poll watcher show up wearing 2 Kerry buttons and a Kerry hat. She stuck a Kerry lawn sign in the ground 6 feet from the polling place door and crossed her arms and just stared at us standing in line.”
Check with the laws in your state, but there’s probably a set distance from the polling place in which a person can campaign for a candidate. Clearly the “poll watcher” you mention was campaigning for Kerry.
At the polls in my county, there is absolutely no campaigning allowed within 100 ft of the polls. This includes tee shirts, buttons, and signs. There is a bit of a grey area when it comes to bumper stickers. If a person has one on their car and is just showing up to vote, they get a pass. A number of years ago when I was a poll watcher, a rat poll watcher showed up also. She had her car plastered in rat stickers and parked as close to the entrance as she could. I told her to move her car, to which she refused. I then made a few phone calls and she was told that if she didn’t move her car, which was just a rolling campaign sign, she would be arrested. I’m not sure what to tell you when the cops your dealing with refuse to enforce the laws other than depending how strongly you believe in having honest elections, you may have to risk going to jail yourself to stand up for what is right. Document everything if possible.
Would that be Hidalgo or Luna? We’ve (seemingly) made some progress in Grant at stopping much of that.
“Later run them through a face scanner.”
Do you have a source for an affordable facial recognition program?
better yet follow the bus, walk into the polling place with them and loudly announce WE ALL JUST VOTED OVER AT THE 9TH PRECINCT! WHERE DO WE VOTE AGAIN HERE?
No. Software should have been written long ago.
That www.votestand.com is a beginning. But poll watchers would take pictures, and upload those to a database.
But it would have to be a private effort, no Rep or Dem, cuz they are corrupt.
Simple app, point and click with cell camera.
better yet follow the bus, walk into the polling place with them and loudly announce WE ALL JUST VOTED OVER AT THE 9TH PRECINCT! WHERE DO WE VOTE AGAIN HERE?
Saul Alinsky tips his hat and sends his approval via smoke signals with a smile from his place in the sixth circle of hell
It was Grant County, I worked elections for several years in the 90s. I have noticed in the last several elections my deceased relatives are no longer in the book. For many years it was impossible to get them to take anyone off.
My brother was registered twice and he tried several times to bring that to their attention, at that time no one seemed to care.
Spycam.
I.N.S. is no longer, afaik.
It is now I.C.E. (Immigration & Customs Enforcement)
Twinkie is correct about civil disobedience.
Gandhi used it in 1940’s against the British rule,
and the largest democracy on earth was born.
>>Check with the laws in your state, but there’s probably a set distance from the polling place in which a person can campaign for a candidate. Clearly the “poll watcher” you mention was campaigning for Kerry.
Do ya think???
Seriously, since our county is mostly white, heavily military, and very conservative, it had been targeted as one that would be a test case for “voter disenfranchisement”. They filed suits because a black person got stopped for a speeding ticket on election day. That’s how silly 2004 was. Remember that this was the one after the “stolen” election of 2000 and the rank-and-file useful idiots were in “never again” mode!
So, the Dems got a pass on all their antics. The Supervisor of Elections was a coward for not fighting and for issuing instructions to poll guards to allow this sort of thing. I did file a complaint. Nothing came of it, that I know of. Also remember that it was 2004 so phone cameras weren’t as common as they are now. I didn’t even have a cell phone in 2004, much less a smartphone.
And in the end, we won anyway. Or at least we thought we did. The Globalist Progressives won that one, just like the 4 before it and the 2 since.
If I see a Hillary sign at the polling place door on Nov 8 2016, I will risk the trip to jail by grabbing it on my way out after I’ve voted for Trump.
I’m taking a phone picture of my ballot.
That’s called electioneering. It’s illegal in most states.
We ought to dress up exactly like that, and bring big blown-up pictures of these guys to plant or carry, in case anyone doesn’t remember this incident and doesn’t get the point.
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