Posted on 11/01/2004 10:56:48 AM PST by livius
I believe they sent those here in Ohio too...last night I had a GOP rep call me to see if I had received one.
Ping to some people who were interested in poll watcher topics earlier. Please ping others, especially anybody you know who is a poll watcher.
I will be pollwatching. You are only suppose to talk to the Poll Clerk who has been doing this for years, years, years. If you have a complaint about something just bring it to the poll clerk's attention, you cannot challenge anyone directely anyway.
What's the problem? Were people planning to issue baseless challenges? Or challenges based on perceived color of the voter? (Remember is was stuff like that that drove Rice's father over the GOP when the Dems did it.)
Why are people surprised .. the law only applies to repubs .. and the dem's standard mode of operation is INTIMIDATION.
It's called intimidation. I guess it's ok for them to try to intimidate poll watchers with threats of legal action. Well, guess what DemWIPES ... we've got lawyers too.
Well, I'm a poll watcher tomorrow and I couldn't agree more.
Good cause certainly includes:
I will note that if the democrats weren't famous for having dead people vote, having voter registration activists register "Mickey Mouse", "Mary Poppins", and the like, having voter registration rolls hundreds of thousands over the actual populations of the given counties, etc., then these watching wouldn't be necessary.
So, if it weren't for all of these situations, I'm fairly sure that we wouldn't have to do this. Unfortunately because of that, we do.
How is reminding you of the law a threat? It is crass certainly, but would you expect anything else from the DNC?
And, I should echo FREEPER TurtleSink's comments. Procedurally, it is correct that no poll watcher will challenge the voter in any way. The proper procedure is to alert the precinct captain/clerk as to possible discrepancies.
Hey Rats - 4Q.
Stunning? Yes. Surprising? No.
Most hard-working people wouldn't have the money to afford a lawyer.
The demoCREEPs are hoping that they 1) intimidate them from going altogether or 2) intimidate them from doing anything when they are there (i.e., rightfully challenging an inapproriate vote, such as not being a registered voter).
It's crass. But, it is intimidation too. It's, perhaps, a subtle threat, but it's a threat no less.
Any and all 'legal' letters generated by the zealots in the Kerry campaign should be ignored. At this point they are desparate and will say and do anything. They will send out mass mailings of threatening letters. They didn't choose the unqualified John Edwards for nothing. They have a strange belief that they can litigate their way into the white house, despite the wishes of the voters.
This reminds me of the terrorists when they scream, "It's a Holy site" in order to protect weapons caches and God knows what else.
Translation: You may look (with your blindfolds on), but don't mumble a word, question anything you do see, get anywhere near voting booths, or question all the extra ballots that are being wheelbarrow dumped into the voting boxes.
Send this on to John Gibson Fox News and any others you can think of!!
It's a 'nuanced' threat.
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