GOP planning to disrupt elections [View all]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758

The GOP is implementing "...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 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."

"But election watchdog groups and legal experts say many of these recruits are answering the RNC’s call because they falsely believe fraud was committed in the 2020 election, so installing them as the supposedly unbiased officials who oversee voting at the precinct level could create chaos in such heavily Democratic precincts."

"...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."

"Democratic National Committee spokesperson Ammar Moussa said the DNC “trains poll watchers to help every eligible voter cast a ballot,” but neither the DNC nor the state party trains poll workers. The DNC did help recruit poll workers in 2020 due to a drop-off in older workers amid the pandemic; but he says it is not currently doing so and has never trained poll workers to contest votes."

This is why we'll probably lose big this year and again in '24: The DNC is not responding in-kind to this unprecedented Republican power grab. Dems must recruit and train poll workers and get Dem-friendly lawyers on speed-dial at every location where Repubs are staffing up. We should have a one-for-one defense set up and ready to go. Republicans are going for minority rule. They'll be successful and we'll be screwed.