Proud Boys can't vote intimidate mail in ballots...

[Wounded Bear]

[Hela]

1. Not everybody has that option. :-( n/t

[Wounded Bear]

2. I understand, and I worry about the women's votes in dysfunctional households...

TBH, individual intimidation might be a problem in Red households with all that fake Christian crap demanding that the man be the head of the household and the head of the wife, too.

Women got us in in 2018 and we definitely need the women's vote this year.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. I Don't Understand The Intimidation Aspect

Yeah, they can show up, pretending to be tough guys.
But, nobody knows who voted for whom, except that voter.
So, why be intimidated?
Show up, keep your mouth shut, vote, go home.
They can't do anything to anybody, except try to look scary.
It's seems like being intimidated is a choice. If one refuses to be intimidated by ultimately powerless people, they won't be intimidated.

[LisaL]

5. So if you approached your voting place, and there was a group of men

with assault weapons (which they can do in an open carry state) you'd be just fine?

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. What are they going to do?

Seriously, what are they going to actually do, except as the good Professor notes, "try to look scary"?

I absolutely plan on voting in person and getting there early, so if some asshole or group of them has a rifle or is open carrying at my polling place, I'm going to walk right up to him/them and ask what it is they are trying to prove.

Because I am not in the least bit fucking scared of people who are so terrified of other Americans that they feel the need to carry firearms with them to a voting place.

Fuck those assholes. Stand up to them. They aren't going to shoot anyone. Loudly make them look like the scared, anti-democracy dipshits they are.

[LisaL]

9. I don't know what they are going to do, but I don't want to find out.

NT

[Celerity]

13. +1000

[MineralMan]

16. I would go into my polling place and vote.

What would they be going to do, shoot me? I go to the polling place with no signs or other evidence that I will vote in any particular way. Nobody should. You just walk past them and go in and cast your vote. If they speak to you, simply ignore them and continue on your way.

If threatened, I'd call 911 on my cell phone and wait for the police to arrive.

Trump's goons are cowards with guns, but they're not going to use them.

Just ignore them and vote.

[Progressive dog]

4. No they can't

but not everyone can use mail in ballots.

[LisaL]

6. People who can vote early either in person or absentee

hopefully will try to do so.
I wouldn't wait until election day, cause who knows what Trump has in store.

[lame54]

7. They can't intimidate me standing in line either

[MagickMuffin]

10. I don't have that option in Texas

And I can't do Straight Party Ticket either. So, more time voting in the deadly pandemic.


Here's how I see these fools showing up to mostly minority polling locations.

[Miguelito Loveless]

11. No, but they can storm in

while the votes are being counted and threaten counters and/or destroy ballots.

There is certainly historical precedent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

This time they will be armed and have police support.

[Celerity]

14. +1000

[roamer65]

15. Let's pray they don't open that Pandora's box.

They won’t like what comes out of it.

[beachbumbob]

12. Sooner or later will direct them to take over specific areas

where votes are counted, like the Board of Elections and the like. Trump will signal outright attacks. Don't think he isn't capable and his followers more than willing to do so. We will see American blood spilled not since the Civil War in fighting for democracy against trump, putin and white supremacist.