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Adam Griffin
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« on: November 02, 2016, 05:22:28 PM »

Why is no one on the left organizing counter mobilization to watch for voter intimidation?

Especially in areas where the Democratic Party is firmly in control, Democratic poll watchers are there every single election specifically for this reason and many others. Even in my 70% GOP Southern county, half of the precincts will have Democratic poll watchers. You just don't hear about it because we're not barred by law from coordinating these massive efforts every single cycle. It's only news when the GOP and their white nationalist friends begin coordinating in violation of the law.

In Philly, for instance, the Democratic Party is likely to have poll watchers at every single precinct. They better set up those cameras and hand out their drugs far away from the precincts, because those poll watchers will catch this crap and I'd be willing to bet that based on the machine politics in Philly and its strong union and black contingents...the instigators just might be more likely to leave white working class and black voting locations with busted kneecaps than bragging stories about disenfranchisement.
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Adam Griffin
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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2016, 05:34:35 PM »

Why is no one on the left organizing counter mobilization to watch for voter intimidation?

I like to think that we're better than such thuggery.

The hell? How is watching for thuggery thuggery?
Because this is the job of law enforcement? An armed vigilante is a thug no matter their ideology.

It's literally not the job of law enforcement: that's part of the reason the RNC consent decree exists in the first place. Law enforcement is tasked with intervening only after reports of misconduct are filed that cannot be resolved amicably...which can only be done thoroughly in the first place if you have sanctioned poll watchers at as many precincts as possible. Nobody is saying anything about "armed vigiliantes" or "thugs" except you.
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