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Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocks on poll watchers
https://wausaupilotandreview.com ^ | Oct 11, 2022

Posted on 10/11/2022 8:06:05 AM PDT by 11th_VA

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission couldn’t agree Monday on what to tell the state’s local election officials about how to handle poll watchers, including where they can stand as people register to vote and check in to receive their ballots.

The commission split along party lines, with all three Republicans in support of sending a notice to clerks attempting to spell out what the law allows. All three Democrats opposed it, resulting in a deadlock vote and no change.

The issue came up less than a month after the commission voted to start the lengthy process of reviewing existing rules and writing new ones for election observers. Commission chair Don Millis said that given the process won’t be done until a year or more after the Nov. 8 election, he wanted to offer clerks clarity on the existing law now.

The unprecedented recruitment efforts are the result of heightened election skepticism and have some local clerks worried about safety at the polls, especially because reports of intimidating behavior from partisan observers have popped up across the country since 2020...

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Lawless Demoncrats ...
1 posted on 10/11/2022 8:06:05 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Democracy dies in darkness, and Democrats love their darkness.


2 posted on 10/11/2022 8:07:27 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: 11th_VA

Same day registration at the polling place is stupid, unverifiable and an open invitation to fraud.


3 posted on 10/11/2022 8:07:37 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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resulting in a deadlock vote and no change

Meaning? Whats the status quo?

4 posted on 10/11/2022 8:08:11 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: 11th_VA
"The unprecedented recruitment efforts ... have some local clerks worried about safety at the polls, especially because reports of intimidating behavior asking questions from partisan observers have popped up across the country since 2020."

For clarity.

5 posted on 10/11/2022 8:09:37 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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reports of intimidating behavior from partisan observers
You mean like asking where that box of pre-filled ballots came from?
6 posted on 10/11/2022 8:11:10 AM PDT by jdege
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To: Vigilanteman
Same day registration at the polling place is stupid, unverifiable and an open invitation to fraud.

The fraudsters always assure us that no one would EVER lie about their eligibility to vote, and that "robust" safeguards prevent unqualified people from voting.

How many of these last minute registrations to vote are actually screened after the fact? My guess is NONE. And if they were found unqualified, their ballot still gets counted.

7 posted on 10/11/2022 8:11:59 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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“intimidating behavior” = openly question obvious election fraud.


8 posted on 10/11/2022 8:14:47 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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...all three Republicans in support of sending a notice to clerks attempting to spell out what the law allows

If you want honest elections, how can you NOT support something as simple as that? That vote alone tells you everything you need to know about Democrats and fair and honest elections.

9 posted on 10/11/2022 8:15:05 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: Magnum44
Whats the status quo?

Dems can keep on cheating to steal elections.

10 posted on 10/11/2022 8:15:49 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: jdege

Q: “Where is the dumpbox, I have a trunk load of ballets to drop off”
D: “Its in the back...here is the key to the room”
R: “Huh?”


11 posted on 10/11/2022 8:18:11 AM PDT by Zathras
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Democrats desire chaos.


12 posted on 10/11/2022 8:36:14 AM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters: it’s Oz or Fetterman. Deal with it and vote accordingly.)
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Democrats desire chaos.

It's perhaps their main weapon.

13 posted on 10/11/2022 8:37:18 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Actually I think lack of integrity, honesty and a core value is their main weapon. It lets them do anything with zero guilt


14 posted on 10/11/2022 8:58:00 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: 11th_VA

The chaos is on purpose so the election thieves can do their thing.


15 posted on 10/11/2022 9:42:10 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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The Republican poll watchers should have T-shirts made with the laws and instructions printed on them that they can wear to the vote counting centers. Unless the Democrats want them to work topless, they will have to be admitted. That might actually be a pretty good media moment.


16 posted on 10/11/2022 9:54:47 AM PDT by Dave Wright
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Tell me about it. I'm in my 9th year as an election judge in one of the larger precincts in our county. It is an office I've never run for, filed for or campaigned for, but somehow I keep getting reelected with write-in votes.

Any even year election is always big turnout with a handful of people waltzing in to declare they SHOULD be registered in our precinct. I will call the county (if I can get through to them) to find out where they ARE registered and then give them to choices:

  1. They can go vote where they are registered.
  2. They can vote a provisional ballot at our precinct which the election board will then determine to count, not count or partially count according to the provisions of the election law. Which will it be?

Some of them have a few choice words for me, but I stand my ground and tell them they are welcome to vote me out of office the next time around.

17 posted on 10/11/2022 10:18:58 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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“Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocks on poll watchers”

The three-drink minimum atill applies at the private tables!

oh, you mean that other kind of poll watcher . . .


18 posted on 10/11/2022 11:01:53 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Magnum44

Dem poll watchers, wearing appropriate Democrat slogans, may bring club of their choice inside polling place.

GOP poll watchers may not engage in anything construed to be political & must remain out side of the building so they can watch it.


19 posted on 10/11/2022 11:21:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Zathras
THE MYSTERY OF BALLOT BOX 13
20 posted on 10/11/2022 12:54:41 PM PDT by jdege
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