1. If there is going to be litigation, it is a wise idea for the poll watcher NOT to talk to the press before she gets a lawyer to advise her.
2. The lawyer will probably advise her to stay away from the press pending the litigation.
3. If and when it would not be a violation of rules 1 and 2, I would like the poll watcher to be a guest with me on "American Breakfast," nationally, though it's real early in the morning, 5 to 9 a.m. Eastern.
On the situation of the poll watcher herself, watchers are accredited to do their job, precinct by precinct, under rules established either statewide or within a county. If that is exactly what she was doing, then those who sought to prevent her from carrying out her assignment were in violation of the Civil Rights Act, Section 1988, et seq. Could be a very interesting case.
The reason for staying away from the press is not that this lady might say something wrong. She sounds very self-possessed. It is that the press might misrepresent her words, and then on the stand the attorney for the other side will waive a copy of a misquote and demand, "Isn't it true, Ms. BLANK, that on 10 November you told a reporter from the L.A. Times, that all Democrats eat babies for breakfast?" In preparing to go to court in a situation where it will be testimony against testimony, caution is the order of the day not to give the attorneys for the other side any lever, even a false one, to use for counterattack.
Congressman Billybob