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Well, the election was one week ago and former vice president Joe Biden has finally been declared the winner by the media. Many Republicans are understandably disappointed that President Trump apparently lost his bid for reelection. But many more are upset at how the President lost the election. I say in my podcast Watercooler Politics that I don’t personally believe there were enough shenanigans to actually change the outcome of the election. There were other factors that contributed to the President’s close loss. But the shenanigans on election night in Pennsylvania and Michigan, – and the new revelation that the...

I attended the Trump Rally in NH on Sunday, it was a great day. The following info was provided to Trump supporters who want to become trained poll watchers / challengers. You can sign up to be an official Poll Watcher on Election Day, Nov 3, or to be an watcher during the Absentee Ballot votes activity happening Oct. 31 (Sat.).

MADISON, Wis. – Leave it to the Dem-heavy City of Milwaukee Election Commission to ban a 78-year-old poll observer for doing her job, a draconian punishment one election official described as nothing short of partisan “intimidation” in the remaining days before Wisconsin’s tightly contested gubernatorial election. Now, the commission’s executive director has turned in Marguerite Ingold to the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office, the same agency that has spent the past four years drag-netting conservatives in secret, politically charged John Doe investigations. The reason, according to Ingold: The election director believed this Muskego great-grandmother could have become “violent and stormed...

For the last two elections, I have been a poll watcher for the Republican party. There are never enough volunteers, even though it is one of the most important and effective things you can do to protect our Constitution and society. The clearest thing that we saw, was that when we had poll watchers in place, the voting percentages changed significantly in favor of Republicans. In Yuma, as in many counties around the country, there has been a history of suspected fraud on the part of Democrats. In Yuma, it is mostly concerned with cross border voting and intimidation of...

I have a ritual on elections. I volunteer to be a pollwatcher. I have done this several times. It makes me feel like I am “doing something” even though it is probably, on the margin, nothing. I am in a state of suppressed hysteria and can’t sit still or focus on Election Day, anyway. This time I signed up with the Republican Lawyers Committee. They had a meeting a week or so before the election at the Union League club. It was a class, basically a primer on election law. It had CLE credit, too. Woo hoo. I went to...

I've been a freeper for quite a while but this is the the first I have been actively involved in a campaign. I volunteered for Scott Walker this year and since June 1 I have been making calls for the campaign which brings me to my questions. I talked to or met many poll workers and poll watchers. This is an incomplete list of my questions, I'll probably add more if anyone is willing to respond. 1. What is the difference between a poll worker and a poll watcher? 2. Are either positions paid? 3. How are absentee ballots handled...

You would think that after the nightmare that was the 2000 election, all the stops would have been pulled out to make sure it didn't happen again. It seems that what has happened instead, is that a certain party has seized on it as an opportunity to fine tune their election fraud techniques. Already stories abound of vote swapping, buying and selling, of "mistakes" on the absentee ballots and "problems" resolving conflicts about who would actually be on the ballot that have prevented absentee ballots reaching our troops serving overseas in a timely manner. There are stories of tens of...

A Poll Watchers Tale My story of my experience training for, and working as a poll watcher applies specifically to Texas. This is my first time working an election of any sort, in any capacity. Those of you experienced in these matters may find some mistakes on my part, and those of you unfamiliar may find it eye opening. I was appointed as a Poll Watcher by the John Cornyn campaign after attending a training session Tuesday, October 29. The session was organized by David Hagy, as part of his work with the Harris County campaign for John Cornyn....