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I was called to break up fighting at Precinct 110 in Coatesville, PA. Bob Saucier was a former high school wrestler who JBS Chapter Leader Pat Sellers used as muscle in elections. I could talk down Bob.
Bob would sit in the path of voters, put out and immediately retract his foot in an apparent effort to make them fall. I witnessed voters walk up to the polls then turn around when they saw Bob. I don’t know if they came back to vote later.
John Birch Society members Pat Sellers & Bob Saucier began their political careers as school board members in the Coatesville Area School District in Pennsylvania.
Pat Sellers influenced elections in Coatesville using Bob Saucier as muscle at the polls with West Chester Attorney Andrew Lehr moving Bob from precinct to precinct.
When my wife was judge of elections in Precinct 110 in Coatesville PA at the close of the Election Day Bob came into the polls put his hands on the table and demanded to vote. Many years before Bob lived on Olive St. in Precinct 110 but because Bob abused her (her neighbors witnessed Bob dragging her down the sidewalk by her hair.) she got a divorce. There was a court order for Bob to stay 75 feet away from the house. Bob lived in Downingtown.
There was no state constable available. My wife called Voter Services. They told her to let him vote illegally. His vote would not be counted.
In the 2022 primary election in Precinct 110 where my wife was judge of elections for 10 years Voter Services filled in as judge of elections. Long time election officers are leaving in Chester County just as they are across the nation.
Sellers also ran for the 6th Congressional District twice.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020
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Former Chester County Sheriff Carolyn “Bunny" Welsh is a high ranking Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officer Association member.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020
July 20 (Reuters) - A coalition of rightwing “constitutional sheriffs,” who claim legal power in their jurisdictions that exceeds U.S. federal and state authorities, has a new calling: investigating conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was rigged against former President Donald Trump.
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association has teamed with True the Vote, a Texas nonprofit and purveyor of debunked voter-fraud claims, to recruit like-minded sheriffs nationwide to investigate 2020 stolen-election allegations and to more aggressively police future voting.
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Right-wing U.S. sheriffs vow to probe 2020 voter-fraud claims
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On Friday night, two armed and masked men wearing tactical gear surveilled a drop box outside the Maricopa County Juvenile Court building in Mesa. Maricopa County Election Department said that the police had been called, and that the armed individuals departed the scene.
However, in a statement to VICE News, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said that after deputies responded, they “were able to determine that the individuals were not breaking any laws and were more than 75 feet away from the ballot box, as required by law.”
On Saturday night, at least one of the men returned to monitor the drop box again.
This time local sheriffs were captured on camera trying to intervene in a standoff between the armed individuals monitoring the drop boxes and those who came to observe the watchers.
The sheriff’s office did not respond to a request for comment about Saturday night’s incidents.
Maricopa County became ground zero for the efforts to overturn the 2020 election when the Senate sanctioned a bogus recount that eventually determined that President Joe Biden won by more votes than was originally thought. Now, as the midterms loom, Arizona is set to be one of the main flashpoints of the efforts to undermine democracy promoted and popularized by former President Donald Trump over the last two years."
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Armed Vigilantes Are ‘Monitoring’ Ballot Drop Boxes in Arizona Now
October 24, 2022, 11:02am
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"Election denier Melody Jennings — a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory — has been organizing a national effort harass and intimidate voters by recruiting fellow conspiracy theorists to “monitor” ballot drop boxes, which they falsely claim are susceptible to voter fraud. Jennings has acknowledged that QAnon influencers, who she has partnered with, have been instrumental in her efforts.
Jennings founded the organization behind the effort to monitor drop boxes, Clean Elections USA. According to Jennings, she was inspired by 2000 Mules, conservative figure Dinesh D’Souza’s widely debunked movie claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen via ballot stuffing at drop boxes by so-called “mules.” Jennings said that “teasers about 2000 Mules … stuck with me and I said, ‘You know, why can’t we just go put 10 people around a box, you know, in shifts around boxes?’”
Since then, Jennings has taken credit for people monitoring an Arizona drop box during the state’s primaries — which she called a “dry run” for the midterm general elections — and members of her organization have recently been reported staking out a drop box in Maricopa County, including targeting a supposed “mule” and photographing voters’ license plates. Her efforts have since been promoted by former President Donald Trump on Truth Social.
The Arizona secretary of state’s office has already received multiple complaints of alleged voter intimidation at drop boxes in Arizona, including incidents connected to Clean Elections USA. In one case, armed men in camouflage have reportedly staked out a drop box in Maricopa County wearing tactical gear, which Jennings has defended. As Jennings’ organization continues encouraging people to monitor drop boxes, a temporary restraining order has been sought against the organization."
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Clean Election USA’s Melody Jennings has collaborated with We The Media, a QAnon influencer collective, and election denial group True the Vote
Written by Alex Kaplan10/ 10/27/22 12:01 PM EDT
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