Just telling you how it worked when I was a poll watcher. The precinct officer is an agent of the county. The poll watcher accompanies that agent to ensure that the ballot box arrives at the counting station un-tampered.
âsupposedâŚintimidationâ being the keyword here.
From every report I read, the only people "intimidatedâ by the presence of the NBPP at that Philly precinct were white Republicans, probably self-appointed âpoll watchersâ, who went to that location with no legitimate explanation for why they were there.
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If you lived in Cumberland County PA you would not be surprised.
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I cannot wait until I am able to retire from my Fed job and get involved more in elections. Hubby has been a senior election judge for years (I stayed home with kids, now with dogs, LOL). BTW, he said poll watchers can insist that local records be checked against main database which will eat up a lot of time. If they challege too much though, he can throw them out as detrimental to an orderly election.
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Someone has to take the voter machines and the ballots to the central location where the official count takes place.
Usually that someone is the head of the precinct and by definition that person is partisan but they take oaths, too.
theyâll be armed and wearing cowboy hats.
If there was time, and I was defending, Iâd require plaintiffs to produce evidence of the kind of voter fraud they allege. Just to watch them twist in the wind.
Why stop at county lines? If the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is violated by limiting poll watchers to county residents, is it not also violated by blocking out of state poll watchers?
A bogus suit filed to keep public attention on non existent voter fraud. It will be voluntarily dismissed soon after the election. Assuming the purpose of the law is to prevent organized voter intimidation, the law is rationally related to the purpose it serves, and there is no constitutional right for anyone to go anywhere to âpoll watchâ.
Election judge in my living room: "They are not counted at the poling place. . They are taken to the county and are only counted if margins are close enough. Same with absentee ballots.
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theyâve been watching too much walking dead.
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Terrific set of facts, but HOTOGâs base donât do facts. It is all about hate, mistrust, and intimidation. Anyone of his âwatchersâ that show up will not be allowed past the electioneering limits. Itâs outside that they will do their damage: in the parking lot, on the street, walking along the lines.
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Well, in Turner v. Cooper, 583 F. Supp. 1160, 1161-1162 (N. D. Illinois 1983), a federal court held that the act of poll-watching is not protected by the First Amendment.
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Speaking of RIGGED ElectionsâŚcome on Penn GoP!
In the mean time, Trump is in PA saying:
1 in 5 Americans who are working age are out of work (thatâs 20% percent unemployment â who knew?)
Voter registration = voter fraud (citing Pew Research stats about registration roles with dead people on them or where the system hasnât caught up.)
Hillary should have been precluded from running for office because the FBI and the Justice Dept. covered up her crimes
The dishonest mainstream media is also a major part of the corruption⌠because they make me look bad. They never show the massive crowd size but they talk up Hillaryâs small crowds.
3 highly respected national polls said we were in 1st place⌠but the media refuses to talk about it to suppress the Trump
His administration wonât allow ATT to buy Time-Warner which includes CNN⌠now going off on Bezos & Amazon⌠and now Comcast & NBC â and weâll break them up becauseâŚ
Now â all the women who came forward lied â and will be sued after the election.
I have unlimited resources to fight back⌠look at what theyâve done to you.
Now on to âpaid DNC operativesâ caused all the violence at my rallies⌠probably paid for by the Clinton campaign⌠and back to prosecuting Clinton after the elections⌠I look so forward to litigation.
[Note: how will that work if he wins? Or only if he loses?]
Hillary is running against change and all the American people.
[Note: low energy â he still hasnât mastered the teleprompter â and still sniffing]
25 million jobs over the next decade â now riffing on Mexico: they get the jobs & money, we get the drugs & unemployment⌠Every trade deal is horrible. All of them will be unwoundâŚ
100 Day Action Plan: Contract between Donald J. Trump and the American People
- Constitutional amendment for term limits on Congress
- Hiring freeze on all government employment
- Eliminate 2 regulations for every new regulation
- 5-year ban on government officials from lobbying
- Lifetime ban on WH officials lobbying
- A complete ban on foreign lobbyists in elections
Renegotiate NAFTA
Withdrawal from TPP
Label China as a currency manipulator
Start a trade war with all our trading partners
Lift restrictions on oil & gas production, coal, etc.
Lift restrictions on the Keystone Pipeline
Cancel UN Climate change programs â and use to fix the U.S.
Cancel all executive orders by Obama
Select a replacement for Scalia (whose widow has a Trump sign on her lawn)
Cancel all federal funding of sanctuary cities (is that a thing?)
Remove 2 million criminal illegal aliens
Cancel visas to countries that wonât take them back
Suspend from terror prone regions [off prompter â radical islamic terrorism /Clinton]
All people get extreme vetting regardless
Large tax reductions â largest for the middle class 35% for a family of 4
Tax brackets from 7 to 3
Business 35% down to 15%
Overseas companies back to 10%
School choice for everyone.
Repeal & replace Obama-care with private healthcare accounts.
Unleash drug companies from having to test before getting drugs to marketâŚ
And weâre back to building a wallâŚand 2 year prison sentence for coming in illegallyâŚ
**I canât help feeling that this might have helped if he had given this speech last month â although it might not have moved the needle too much, it could have shored up the base earlier⌠but even on this speech, he canât stay on topic in front of one his crowds⌠**
Totally agree - the judge who gets this should stamp a big âREJECTEDâ on the brief, then throw the lawyers out for wasting the courtâs time.
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Only the dead people that are paying their taxes should be allowed to vote⌠dead people that arenât paying their taxes should be unearthed and put in jail.
No, they are PARTY agents. In MD, the two election judges tally and reconcile the votes and count the provisional ballots. They phone that number in. A third party picks up the ballot boxes and provisonals but does not get the tally. The judges stay behind to close up the polling place. No one goes with the ballots, not a judge, certainly not a watcherâŚ
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This is not limited. It is a national issue for the GOP. It has been in place since 1982. Though it stemmed from GOP voter suppression in NJ, it applies to GOP voters suppression anywhere. It was supposed to be lifted next year. Thanks to Trump, no matter what happens Nov.8, this baby isnât going anywhere. My guess is there will be be additional sanctions on the GOP after this fiasco. They clearly have a deplorables issue.
from Politico, 2013:
"The lawyer who handled the case for the DNC, Angelo Genova, welcomed the high courtâs action.
âThe Supreme Court, in denying a writ of certiorari in this case, reaffirms the vital necessity of the original consent decree,â Genova said in a statement. âThe order remains integral to enforcing critical protections against minority voter suppression throughout our nation, protections that as are important today as they were thirty years ago.â
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Yes that!
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Iâm all for school choice (REAL schools, of course)âfor the progeny of Trump supporters. Schooling would only help the uniformed dontcha think?
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