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Promote Democracy: Serve as a Poll Worker Before each statewide election, thousands of Californians sign up to help put on the single most important event we hold in a democracy. County elections officials depend on reliable, dedicated teams of poll workers to make every Election Day run smoothly. Who can be a poll worker? To serve as a poll worker you must be: A United States citizen or legal permanent resident; An eligible high school student What does a poll worker do? Sets up and closes a polling place Helps voters understand their rights Protects ballots and voting equipment Why...

The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday secured a settlement from the city of Detroit, which includes hiring more Republican poll workers ahead of next month's presidential election. The settlement comes after the RNC, Michigan GOP, and chairs of Wayne County Republican committee sued Detroit in August over hiring over seven times more Democratic poll workers than Republican ones in the state's primary election, in an alleged violation of state law.Michigan law requires that the number of poll workers from each major political party be "an equal number, as nearly as possible," and that each location in Detroit has at...

The result was a legal challenge by the DNC and an eventual consent decree against the RNC forbidding them from challenging any election result. Those limitations against the republican party lasted from 1982 until 2017. Again, in 2016 a generally unapproved candidate, Donald Trump, wins the election. The response, yet another legal challenge by activist democrats seeking yet another consent decree against the RNC and Trump campaign. If successful, any challenge to the 2024 election would have to be approved by left-wing federal courts in Washington DC. Seeding the proactive narrative, the New York Times recently said the results from...

Menu Building an Election Watchdog Army: RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump Announces New Program to Train 100,000 Poll Workers and 500 Lawyers to Safeguard 2024 Election in November By Jim Hᴏft Jun. 15, 2024 11:40 am232 Comments TruthTweetShareGettrGabTelegram Screenshot: TPUSA In a groundbreaking announcement made last Friday in Detroit, Michigan, Lara Trump, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), revealed plans to build a formidable watchdog army. This force will be tasked with safeguarding the integrity of our elections this coming November. “Our other top priority is election integrity,” said Lara Trump. “If we don’t have free, fair, and transparent...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: GARLAND TO LAUNCH 'ELECTION THREAT TASK FORCE' TO GO AFTER ANYONE QUESTIONING ELECTION INTEGRITY IN 2024 HE WILL CREATE FBI ATTACK TEAMS TO TARGET ANYONE ATTEMPTING TO VERIFY OUR ELECTION PROCESS

The Biden administration carved out paid administrative leave to encourage federal bureaucrats and other employees—seen as a loyal Democrat constituency—to volunteer as poll workers. The administration also requires federal agencies to grant four hours of leave for voting to employees, according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project obtained the documents. The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation. “In recent years, more and more private sector employers have provided time off to their employees to vote,” OPM Director Kiran Ahuja writes in...

The only explanation for the mandate is that it was implemented to deter right-leaning poll workers from overseeing election procedures. ... The city of Madison is requiring that election inspectors and poll workers “Provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test, or obtain a medical or religious exemption in advance of working the polls.” Mark Jefferson, the executive director of the Wisconsin Republican Party, told The Federalist that Madison originally had a blanket Covid mandate with no exceptions at the start of this year. However, after the Republican Party began pursuing legal recourse,...

As they say, life moves fast.On Monday, the New York Times published a story about a “small group of election deniers” who pushed a “conspiracy theory” that “a small American election software company, Konnech, had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had given the Chinese government backdoor access to personal data about two million poll workers in the United States.”On Tuesday, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced that Eugene Yu, Konnech’s CEO, had been arrested in Michigan “as part of an investigation into the possible theft of personal identifying information of [LA County election] workers” and that...

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...

Poll workers in Georgia who raised concerns about election irregularities were informed this week that their contracts are not being renewed, according to letters obtained by Epoch Media Group.Bridget Thorne and Susan Voyles say they witnessed abnormal actions taken during the election in Fulton County. They’ve spoken to news outlets and state legislators about what they saw.In the new letters, Dwight Brower, elections consultant for the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections, informs the women that Georgia law enables officials to appoint poll managers, and managers must be reappointed for each election event.“There are many factors (management skills, performance,...

Georgia Senate Judiciary subcommittee heard new jaw-dropping allegations of alleged election fraud in the state from several people including President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani. The supposed videotape evidence alleges proof of ballots being counted without oversight. A subcommittee comprised of both Republicans and Democrats held a hearing at the State Capitol for perhaps the biggest bombshell presented to lawmakers from inside State Farm Arena. For the first time, the president’s legal team, led by Giuliani, presented surveillance video from the state’s largest voting center. The video allegedly shows people taking out at least four boxes of ballots from underneath...

Earlier today Cristina Laila reported on the explosive video that was revealed during the Georgia ballot counting at the State Farm Arena where crooked Democrats pulled out suitcases full of ballots and began counting those ballots without election monitors in the room.Trump’s legal team showed a video from the State Farm Arena tabulation center when poll workers were told to leave at 10:25 PM.A few “workers” stayed behind and were seen pulling suitcases full of ballots out from under tables to be tabulated!This was the most explosive video of the entire campaign season!WATCH: Video footage from Georgia shows suitcases filled...

Our republic stands on knife edge. As Gandalf said, "So it begins, the great battle of our time." Pray God it stays cool. A great battle fought genteelly and calmly in the courts and legislative halls, by lawyers and computer geeks, auditors and congressmen, whistleblowers and prayer warriors. Tonight I'm worried about something else. Not about whether or not Trump will be Triumphant because we all know he will be. Heck! Even Kamala knows! If she believed otherwise, she would've resigned her Senate seat already! No, what's got me worried is the fact that there are thousands and thousands of...

More than $1 million awarded to P.I.E. Management LLC, created by former Kwame Kilpatrick aide William A. Phillips. When the city of Detroit needed workers to staff its election center this fall, it turned to a familiar figure in city politics: lawyer and entrepreneur William A. Phillips, whose name a few years earlier appeared often in the corruption case of disgraced and still-imprisoned ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. On Sept. 22, the city council approved a $1 million contract for Phillips' staffing firm P.I.E. Management, LLC to hire up to 2,000 workers to work the polls and staff the ballot counting machines....

County and municipal clerks and poll workers across Wisconsin may have unlawfully altered witness statements on thousands of mail-in ballots across the state, "The Dan O'Donnell Show" has learned. Wisconsin Statute 6.86 provides that an absentee ballot must be signed by a witness, who is also required to list his or her address. If a witness address is not listed, then the ballot is considered invalid and must be returned to the voter to have the witness correct. Instead, multiple sources tell "The Dan O'Donnell Show," municipal clerks and vote counters across the state simply filled out witness signatures themselves....

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NBA star LeBron James’s voting rights organization is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to recruit young poll workers in Black communities for the November election. More Than A Vote, which consists of athletes, state election officials and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, will work to draft activists to work the polls in southern and battleground states including Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Louisiana Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina, ABC News reported. "There are a lot of people who grew up in the inner city who are afraid to vote," James told reporters from the NBA bubble in Orlando,...

Police arrested an armed worker Tuesday at a Cleveland polling station. . . He also faces a marijuana possession charge as police found a small amount of marijuana in his pocket when he was arrested . . The man got into an argument with a fellow poll worker and pulled a .380 pistol out of his backpack, Ciaccia said.

Some poll workers in Dallas have decided to sit out Election Day 2014 citing worries over Ebola, according to the Dallas County Elections Administrator. Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole told C&E that some poll workers “have decided they are not going to work the elections,” and the Dallas County Elections Department has also received numerous calls from voters concerned about heading to the polls. “We don’t have a cure for this, but we are going to provide health kits with sanitizer and we will provide gloves—the only things we can provide in our traditional health kit we give to workers,” says Pippins-Poole....

After spending the weekend golfing, President Barack Obama flew to Chicago Monday to vote in the 2014 midterm elections. Reporters were there to film the event. At one point one of the workers tells Obama to “Vote Democrat.” Of course, this is against the law. Cook County is a Campaign-Free Zone – asking voters to vote a particular way is strictly prohibited..