Remember folks: if you’re concerned about election integrity at your polling place, you too can sign up to be an election judge and/or poll watcher! Do it now!
But if there are people attempting to intimidate voters, can we get them cleared out? Being able to make this complaint is at least as important
Any plans on having these monitors armed? Also:
In order to reach 1,000 monitors for the upcoming election, a DOJ spokesperson told CBS News that the department will seek federal employees to volunteer for the effort. A department official added that the recruitment will target DOJ employees, including people in U.S. Attorney’s Offices throughout the country.
What qualifications will they have?
Here begins the list of qualifications.
- Loyalty
Here ends the list of qualifications.
Correction: Loyalty to Chump
What qualifications will they have?
Orange lips
A department official added that the recruitment will target DOJ employees,
Read: ICE agents.
Alternative to CBS.
Time to monitor the monitors. We need to keep an eye on every single one of these poison pills.
No problem, volunteer to be a poll worker for your county.
If you’re there in an official capacity they can’t complain about you loitering or ask you to leave.
For most states you are also paid for your time as a poll worker. Attend the training, follow directions, and you’re good to go.
Depending on the city the paycheck varies and some pay more than others. It’s a nice way to earn some extra money and doesn’t require much more work than checking drivers licenses, using a laptop, setting up booths, and doing some light paperwork.
How many Lemmyites will actually do this? Idk. Not holding my breath.
I plan on it, I’m in a small town and we need volunteers. I’m a little afraid of violence but it is what it is.
In my experience, poll working is about as dangerous as watching paint dry. Also, about as exciting.
Even when something does pop off - the Brooks Brother’s Riot because the only genuinely dramatic incident I could think of in the last 30 years - it’s highly localized and ultimately uneventful (from a violence perspective).
I hope it goes that way for me, thanks
God I wish I could have your back as an Aussie onlooker for an hour or two
Much respect
There was a lot that went on in 2020 as far as attempted and threatened violence against poll workers. Thousands of death threats for starters. Angry crowds outside detroit trying to bully them into stopping the vote count, and so forth. Plus their campaign against the georgia poll workers.
Don’t worry about it too much. You’re gonna be working with some no-nonsense lady named Cathy who’s been doing this for 30 years and she won’t take any guff from anyone.
Im doing it.
I’m getting my poll watcher certificate!
I’ve been doing it since 2020
Did it for the primary, will be there in November, standing next to the tabulator with a smile
If you follow their monitors around they will have you arrested and bring you up on serious federal charges of interfering with a federal official. It doesn’t matter how demonstrably false the accusations are, federal judges are cunts.
If you want to monitor the MAGA monitors, the ACLU is having an online training session for this at 8PM EST 5PM PST today: https://www.mobilize.us/aclu/event/996634/
These will be polling places where the election is likely to be hotly contested. Expect violence and other voter suppression tactics.
Great, perfect 😢 now what about those Epstein files?
Nice that they have jobs, I suppose.
That’s probably not even enough to cover two counties
Which side are they on?
