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Justice Department to send a record 1,000 monitors to polling places in midterm elections (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Time to monitor the monitors. We need to keep an eye on every single one of these poison pills.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    No problem, volunteer to be a poll worker for your county.

    If you're there in an official capacity they can't complain about you loitering or ask you to leave.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago*

    For most states you are also paid for your time as a poll worker. Attend the training, follow directions, and you're good to go.

    Depending on the city the paycheck varies and some pay more than others. It's a nice way to earn some extra money and doesn't require much more work than checking drivers licenses, using a laptop, setting up booths, and doing some light paperwork.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (5 children)

    How many Lemmyites will actually do this? Idk. Not holding my breath.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I plan on it, I'm in a small town and we need volunteers. I'm a little afraid of violence but it is what it is.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    In my experience, poll working is about as dangerous as watching paint dry. Also, about as exciting.

    Even when something does pop off - the Brooks Brother's Riot because the only genuinely dramatic incident I could think of in the last 30 years - it's highly localized and ultimately uneventful (from a violence perspective).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    There was a lot that went on in 2020 as far as attempted and threatened violence against poll workers. Thousands of death threats for starters. Angry crowds outside detroit trying to bully them into stopping the vote count, and so forth. Plus their campaign against the georgia poll workers.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    If you follow their monitors around they will have you arrested and bring you up on serious federal charges of interfering with a federal official. It doesn't matter how demonstrably false the accusations are, federal judges are cunts.

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