Originally published at: California’s Dem Senators Write to SoS Expressing ‘Grave Concerns’ About Tina Peters
Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Election officials in Shasta County — a deep red California county that has been plagued by election denialism and election conspiracy theories since the aftermath of the 2020 election — have decided that it would be a really terrific idea to hire election denier and recently-released-from-prison ex-elections administrator…
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Who’s waiting to hear that each ‘election monitor’ will be accompanied by twenty or so ‘concerned citizen volunteers’ who have been given pre-emptive pardons for… anything that might happen.
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Tina Peters is a committed insurrectionist. Her actions, trial, and conviction prove that fact.
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California wouldn’t be facing the Tina Peters problem if CO Governor Jared Polis hadn’t given in to Trump’s pressure and pardoned her even though she never admitted wrongdoing or expressed the least bit of remorse. He’s just exported his problem to another state. I hope CO voters remember this.
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Trump Admin to Send 1,000 Federal Monitors to Polling Sites in the Fall
I have trained as a poll worker in Pima County. The staffing at a polling location here consists of:
- One Election Inspector,
- One Election Marshall
- Two Election Judges, one from each party,
- Two Election Observers, one from each party
- A number of Elections Clerks
- Possibly an Equipment Specialist (they tend to rotate among polling locations)
Other than the Observers, all staff are sworn in.
These are the only non-voters allowed inside the 75’ limit. The Election Observers are not allowed to interact with anyone other than the Inspector. They may not speak with voters, Clerks, Judges or the Marshall.
If they violate this, the Inspector can have the Marshall remove them. The Marshall can summon law enforcement, if needed.
Other jurisdictions may have different rules, but I understand this is a general outline of polling place staffing and rules across the country.
So bring it on, scheissksopf.
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Shasta County is RED RED RED. Always has been. It’s beautiful, but I wouldn’t want to spend any time there.
73% white, 13% Hispanic or Latino, 7.8% speak a language other than English at home.
Don’t understand what the point is of bringing in Tina Peters to “consult.” Maybe ol’ Clint just has a crush on her.
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We have a lot more here:
Two head judges.
Two Greeter judges
Multiple Roster judges - they check the voter is registered
Two Registrations judges - if not registered, they register the voter
A Demonstration judges (how to fill out the ballot)
Two Ballot judges (we have to double initial and count each ballot sheet to ensure the counts match at the end)
One Ballot Counter judge (monitors the scanner)
There is a distribution of two parties, so that if there’re any issues, both parties are represented in the event of an issue.
If there is curb-side voting needed (which it wasn’t the day I worked), each party has to be represented.
We have a larger boundary outside of which any non-voters or judges have to stay.
The good news - our polling place for the two precincts in our town is housed in the same building as the city police. So good luck trying to interfere here.
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Same point as joining the State of Jefferson movement, seceding from California to form a state poorer and more dependent on welfare than Mississippi (but I digress): Sedition and generally throwing ones weight around is a tonic for those who feel ignored, particularly when richly deserved because they are ignorant, emotionally juvenile, vindictive asshats like Clint et al.
Not really on topic but somehow it fits (and it made me laugh):
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This whole Tina Peters thing, besides being sketchy as hell, isn’t confirmed. 1. She can’t leave the state of Colorado and 2. Shasta County has said Clint does not have the authority to hire her without an authorization for funds. 3. Turner, who has been on medical leave, is planning on returning to work, despite what has been claimed and finally 4. All of sudden, her “she’s accepted and is coming” has turned into “Oh, I guess she’s thinking about it.”
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The moment Governor Polis granted this parole and the curious reasons behind it it was understood this kind of nonsense would ensue.She was convicted of crimes and should be in jail.This simply opens the door to revisit the rhetoric and activity that got here convicted.
He won’t be running again.
Her release is an excuse to unleash the false narrative and nonsense from 2020…which is part of the point…obfuscation and lies…
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