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‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:10 pm
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:10 pm
Weird, first Dominion news, now this.
Almost like they are laying the groundwork for an upcoming election.
Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts: Install trained recruits as regular poll workers and put them in direct contact with party attorneys.
The plan, as outlined by a Republican National Committee staffer in Michigan, includes utilizing rules designed to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places, developing a website to connect those workers to local lawyers and establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts.
“Being a poll worker, you just have so many more rights and things you can do to stop something than [as] a poll challenger,” said Matthew Seifried, the RNC’s election integrity director for Michigan, stressing the importance of obtaining official designations as poll workers in a meeting with GOP activists in Wayne County last Nov. 6. It is one of a series of recordings of GOP meetings between summer of 2021 and May of this year obtained by POLITICO.
Backing up those front-line workers, “it’s going to be an army,” Seifried promised at an Oct. 5 training session. “We’re going to have more lawyers than we’ve ever recruited, because let’s be honest, that’s where it’s going to be fought, right?”
Seifried also said the RNC will hold “workshops” and equip poll workers with a hotline and website developed by Zendesk, a software support company used by online retailers, which will allow them to live-chat with party attorneys on Election Day. In a May 2022 training session, he said he’d achieved a goal set last winter: More than 5,600 individuals had signed up to be poll workers and, several days ago, he submitted an initial list of more than 850 names to the Detroit clerk.
Democrat Janice Winfrey, who serves as the clerk, would be bound to pick names from the list submitted by the party under a local law intended to ensure bipartisan representation and an unbiased team of precinct workers.
In the introduction graphic on his training presentation, Seifried says the RNC’s goal is to “make it easy to vote and HARD TO CHEAT.”
“This is completely unprecedented in the history of American elections that a political party would be working at this granular level to put a network together,” said Nick Penniman, founder and CEO of Issue One, an election watchdog group. “It looks like now the Trump forces are going directly after the legal system itself and that should concern everyone.”
Penniman also expressed concern about the quick-strike networks of lawyers and DAs being created, suggesting that politically motivated poll workers could simply initiate a legal conflict at the polling place that disrupts voting and then use it as a vehicle for rejecting vote counts from that precinct.
But Penniman, the election watchdog, believes the strategy is designed to create enough disputes to justify intervention by GOP-controlled state legislatures, who declined to take such steps in 2020.
“Come election day you create massive failure of certification” in Democratic precincts, Penniman said. “The real hope is that you can throw the choosing of electors to state legislatures.”
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Almost like they are laying the groundwork for an upcoming election.
Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts: Install trained recruits as regular poll workers and put them in direct contact with party attorneys.
The plan, as outlined by a Republican National Committee staffer in Michigan, includes utilizing rules designed to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places, developing a website to connect those workers to local lawyers and establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts.
“Being a poll worker, you just have so many more rights and things you can do to stop something than [as] a poll challenger,” said Matthew Seifried, the RNC’s election integrity director for Michigan, stressing the importance of obtaining official designations as poll workers in a meeting with GOP activists in Wayne County last Nov. 6. It is one of a series of recordings of GOP meetings between summer of 2021 and May of this year obtained by POLITICO.
Backing up those front-line workers, “it’s going to be an army,” Seifried promised at an Oct. 5 training session. “We’re going to have more lawyers than we’ve ever recruited, because let’s be honest, that’s where it’s going to be fought, right?”
Seifried also said the RNC will hold “workshops” and equip poll workers with a hotline and website developed by Zendesk, a software support company used by online retailers, which will allow them to live-chat with party attorneys on Election Day. In a May 2022 training session, he said he’d achieved a goal set last winter: More than 5,600 individuals had signed up to be poll workers and, several days ago, he submitted an initial list of more than 850 names to the Detroit clerk.
Democrat Janice Winfrey, who serves as the clerk, would be bound to pick names from the list submitted by the party under a local law intended to ensure bipartisan representation and an unbiased team of precinct workers.
In the introduction graphic on his training presentation, Seifried says the RNC’s goal is to “make it easy to vote and HARD TO CHEAT.”
“This is completely unprecedented in the history of American elections that a political party would be working at this granular level to put a network together,” said Nick Penniman, founder and CEO of Issue One, an election watchdog group. “It looks like now the Trump forces are going directly after the legal system itself and that should concern everyone.”
Penniman also expressed concern about the quick-strike networks of lawyers and DAs being created, suggesting that politically motivated poll workers could simply initiate a legal conflict at the polling place that disrupts voting and then use it as a vehicle for rejecting vote counts from that precinct.
But Penniman, the election watchdog, believes the strategy is designed to create enough disputes to justify intervention by GOP-controlled state legislatures, who declined to take such steps in 2020.
“Come election day you create massive failure of certification” in Democratic precincts, Penniman said. “The real hope is that you can throw the choosing of electors to state legislatures.”
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Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:12 pm to Jbird
The GOP has been working to make sure that 2020 doesn't repeat itself....more poll workers and educating them on what to do when frickery shows up.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:13 pm to Jbird
As if Marc Elias isn’t doing the exact same thing except more douchey
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:13 pm to Wtodd
Correct, the media on the other hand is setting this up for future attack on the GOP
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:14 pm to Jbird
quote:
“This is completely unprecedented in the history of American elections that a political party would be working at this granular level to put a network together,” said Nick Penniman, founder and CEO of Issue One, an election watchdog group.
I'm not sure he knows what "unprecedented" means.
quote:
“It looks like now the Trump forces are going directly after the legal system itself and that should concern everyone.”
The legal system has failed the American people.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:15 pm to Jbird
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“This is completely unprecedented in the history of American elections that a political party would be working at this granular level to put a network together,”
Fat Stacy says hi.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:19 pm to Jbird
If your not at least 6' 5" and 255 lbs and trained in marital arts then you have zero business as a poll watcher.
Someone has to stop the cardboard over the windows deal and the little ole lady as a poll watcher nonsense isn't going to cut it anymore.
Heads need to be seriously cracked when cheating right out in the open happens.
Someone has to stop the cardboard over the windows deal and the little ole lady as a poll watcher nonsense isn't going to cut it anymore.
Heads need to be seriously cracked when cheating right out in the open happens.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:20 pm to Jbird
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The plan, as outlined by a Republican National Committee staffer in Michigan, includes utilizing rules designed to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places, developing a website to connect those workers to local lawyers and establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts.
Omg omg omg omg omg omg omg.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:21 pm to Jbird
quote:
“It looks like now the Trump forces are going directly after the legal system itself and that should concern everyone.”
Imagine white knighting for our corrupt, broken two-tiered legal system
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:25 pm to TulaneFan
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Imagine white knighting for our corrupt, broken two-tiered legal system
And having the nerve to call yourself an “election watchdog”
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:44 pm to Jbird
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Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections
For the people who don't want to read the long OP - this is not Republicans politicians in DC doing this. They don't have the balls. It's the RNC and the people who actually give a shite about fair elections doing this.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:50 pm to Jbird
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But Penniman, the election watchdog, believes the strategy is designed to create enough disputes to justify intervention by GOP-controlled state legislatures, who declined to take such steps in 2020.
Yeah, the GOPe won't do shite to intervene in 2022 or 2024 either. Why would they upheave the very system that ensures they stay in power?
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:50 pm to Jbird
So, it is unprecedented that the GOP is assembling such a network but not that the DNC already has an existing one which is in general left over from the old “machine” days?
Posted on 6/1/22 at 1:09 pm to Jbird
Anyone have a pic of the election workers taping paper over the windows so that people can't watch them steal the election?
Doors should be kicked down if it happens again.
Doors should be kicked down if it happens again.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 1:12 pm to Jbird
quote:liar.
“This is completely unprecedented in the history of American elections that a political party would be working at this granular level to put a network together,” said Nick Penniman, founder and CEO of Issue One, an election watchdog group.
"If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear"
This post was edited on 6/1/22 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 6/1/22 at 1:12 pm to Jbird
Whats going to be amazing is how they plan to do some of the same things the dems did in 2020, but will be called racist, oppressive, fascist, etc for doing it
Posted on 6/1/22 at 1:31 pm to Jbird
The GOPe are slick but no one seems to ever really see it.
They kill 2 birds with one stone with this. Win when THEY want to win & make it look like they aren't gigantic wussies and appease Trump about real election fraud happening and NOW they are stopping it.
They kill 2 birds with one stone with this. Win when THEY want to win & make it look like they aren't gigantic wussies and appease Trump about real election fraud happening and NOW they are stopping it.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 1:40 pm to cajunangelle
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Win
if that's what they even want. They probably want to lose, but to be able to say that this time it was definitely a clean election. I don't trust any of these people anymore.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 1:42 pm to Jbird
"DEMOCRATS CREATE ARMY OF CHEATERS SO REPUBLICANS CREATE ARMY OF REFEREES"
There is how the headline should read.
There is how the headline should read.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 1:44 pm to Wtodd
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more poll workers and educating them on what to do when frickery shows up.
The headlines will be VOTER INTIMIDATION and racism.
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