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This sickness so permeates a substantial segment of the population that they hardly need an organization, now judicially restrained, to organize them into scaring voters who don’t look like them or live where they live.
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Gee I wonder if the “revised edition” is just as dishonest and Dimwit D’Stupid’s original?
“Most notably, a passage in the recalled version of the book that accused specific, named nonprofit organizations of involvement in illegal ‘ballot trafficking’ has been rewritten, softening certain claims and outright removing the names of the groups,” NPR reported. “Separately, sections of the book that purported to link election fraud to antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement have also been deleted.”
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U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tuchi immediately issued a preliminary injunction against Clean Elections USA, prohibiting them from carrying out their activities in Arizona.
Obama appointee. AZ appeals to the ninth circuit, which is way better than the 5th circuit.
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It’s astounding how much damage Toadglans mit der Bone Spurs von Queens could do, and continues to do, in so few years. It’s as if America has become one of his casinos. Of course, in a way, it has.
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Used a drop box. Surveil this, you cosplay clowns:
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…individuals caught on camera lurking by the Mesa drop box in “body armor, tactical gear, and disguises.”
Why do these brave parrots need disguises? We don’t need no stinking disguises 
Take them out into the desert, put a pink tutu on 'em and give 'em a Saguaro hug.
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All it takes is a Trojan Horse from Putinia to befoul the world.
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As a 5’, 110-lb woman of a certain age, I would LOVE to verbally confront these cowardly dickheads. Make my day, assholes.
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When we were kids we used to tie bath towels around our necks and jump from the top step imagining ourselves super heros. I suppose some of us never outgrow those shenanigans.
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I recall Lenin urging, “loot the looters!” Couldn’t Arizonans muster up some groups to “film the filmers?”
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I’ll bet that the “patriots” doing the filming have a lot more to hide than the people who are voting. Why not encourage drop-box-watcher watchers to film the thugs? Better yet, why not have the state of Arizona install automated cameras at each dropbox site? Have the “mule trackers” subsidize it via promotional emails to the Crazy People List: “Safeguard America!!!”, send $20 NOW!!! Subject to FOIA, of course.
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About 50 years ago, I crashed into a saguaro cactus and ended up with 15-20 needles stuck in my knee. I remember it vividly.
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I give it a week before someone is killed. These fucking dumbass losers see a brown face and they see an “illegal.” How long before these masked incel terrorists decide that a brown face must be dropping 10,000 votes into the box in a single envelope and justifies a shoot-out.
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@sooner our front yard has 5 large saguaro cacti in ot but I would prefer these n00bs in tactical gear play with our cholla cacti. They’re called “jumping cholla” for a reason. Get within 2 feet of them ans somehow you come away full of needles …
This is a little guy. We have them 4 to 5 feet tall an they’re not something to mess with without full armor
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Need to stop calling this “surveillance”. It’s not illegal to sit and look at a drop box. It is illegal to intimidate people casting their ballots. Call it stalking, intimidation, aggression toward voters – something less passively clandestine than surveillance.
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FTFY
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Isn’t it against the LAW to cover your license plate? Flag or not?
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Totes.
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This is how the RNC intimidated Black and Hispanic voters in NJ during the 1981 gubernatorial election.
The task force consisted of a group of armed, off-duty police officers wearing armbands, who were hired to patrol polling sites in African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods of Newark and Trenton.[3]
Initially, 45,000 letters were mailed (using an outdated voter registration list) to primarily Latino and African-American citizens.[4] Many of these letters were later returned as non-deliverable, and the 45,000 addresses were used to create a list of voters.[5] These voters were then challenged by the BSTF, a practice known as voter caging.[6]
In addition, the Republican National Committee filed a request for election supervisors to strike these voters from the rolls, but the commissioners of registration refused when they discovered that the RNC had used outdated information.[7]
On New Jersey’s election day in 1981, the BSTF posted large signs, without identification but with an official appearance, reading
WARNING
THIS AREA IS BEING PATROLLED BY THE
NATIONAL BALLOT
SECURITY TASK FORCE
IT IS A CRIME TO FALSIFY A BALLOT ORArmed members of the Task Force “were drawn from the ranks of off-duty county deputy sheriffs and local police,” who “prominently displayed revolvers, two-way radios, and BSTF armbands.”[7] BSTF patrols “challenged and questioned voters at the polls and blocked the way of some prospective voters” in predominantly African-American and Hispanic areas.[7] Democrat James J. Florio lost the gubernatorial election to Republican Thomas H. Kean by 1,797 votes.[7]
What is happening in AZ and GA is a bit of both. AZ has people watching voters drop off their ballots. And some observers are armed.
While in GA they made it possible to challenge individual voter’s registration. Not sure when the law suit will be filed to fix the state legislature’s new law. I wonder if a GA voter can look up on their county’s BOE website to see if they have challenge against them?
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