Thursday, September 24, 2020

Chester County PA Voter Services was overwhelmed by applications for poll workers. “Steve Bannon Urges Republicans To Sign Up As Election Officials And Contest Every Mail-In Ballot”

And, must Chester County election workers live in Chester County PA or can they be from anywhere? From what I can tell the answer is anywhere.

From Chester County Voter Services:

“Due to the large number of applications we have received for poll worker positions, we are unable to respond to all who submitted an application. If you have applied to work at the polls at the General Election and you have not heard back from us, we may have already filled the positions.”



"Former White House chief strategist and accused fraudster Steve Bannon told attendees during a Wednesday night livestream held by the Metropolitan Republican Club that they should sign up as election officials to contest every mail-in ballot in November, as he alleged a think tank called the Transition Integrity Project will “steal” the election from President Trump.


 Bannon, who faces federal charges of conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering in connection with a campaign to raise private money to build Trump’s long-promised border wall, said that 60 million to 80 million voters will cast mail-in ballots in the presidential election, which means “we need to sit there and contest every ballot,” presumably referring to Republicans."


MORE AT:

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Steve Bannon Urges Republicans To Sign Up As Election Officials And Contest Every Mail-In Ballot


Lisette Voytko 07:55pm EDT


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Updated Sep 23, 2020, 08:31pm EDT


FROM Washington Post:

Trump’s reelection campaign and the RNC are working together to recruit 50,000 volunteers to serve as “poll watchers,” according to advisers to both groups, with $20 million set aside for courtroom fights, underscoring the legal arsenal at the party’s disposal.


It gets much worse. Some of those "50,000 Republican volunteers" could be armed former police and sheriffs:

In 1981, New Jersey Republicans hired county deputy sheriffs and local police outfitted with revolvers, two-way radios and armbands reading, “National Ballot Security Task Force” to patrol majority Black and Latinx precincts in the state. A New Jersey voter who was turned away from a polling place by a task force member sued, resulting in a 1982 consent decree barring the party from intimidating voters of color and deputizing off-duty police as poll watchers.

The 2020 presidential election will be the first in nearly 40 years when the Republican National Committee (RNC) won’t be bound by the terms of the 1982 decree. The RNC already is spending millions on a renewed voter suppression scheme involving thousands of poll observers targeting predominantly Black precincts in Philadelphia, for instance, where the Trump campaign is legally challenging not only the state’s mail-in ballot procedures but also a state statute that places limits on who may serve as a poll watcher.

FROM:

Trump’s Federal Police Surge Could Provoke an Election Day Constitutional Crisis


 

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