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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney Campaign Training Poll Watchers To Mislead Voters In Wisconsin
These people have no f-ing shame:
Mitt Romneys campaign has been training poll watchers in Wisconsin with highly misleading and sometimes downright false information about voters rights.
Documents from a recent Romney poll watcher training obtained by ThinkProgress contain several misleading or untrue claims about the rights of Wisconsin voters. A source passed along the following packet of documents, which was distributed to volunteers at a Romney campaign training in Racine on October 25th. In total, six such trainings were held across the state in the past two weeks.
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The training also encouraged volunteers to deceive election workers and the public about who they were associated with. On page 3 of the packet, Romney poll workers were instructed to hide their affiliation with the campaign and told to sign in at the polls as a concerned citizen instead. As Kristina Sesek, Romneys legal counsel who just graduated from Marquette Law School last year, explained, Were going to have you sign in this election cycle as a concerned citizen. Were just trying to alleviate some of the animosity of being a Republican observer up front.
Documents from a recent Romney poll watcher training obtained by ThinkProgress contain several misleading or untrue claims about the rights of Wisconsin voters. A source passed along the following packet of documents, which was distributed to volunteers at a Romney campaign training in Racine on October 25th. In total, six such trainings were held across the state in the past two weeks.
. . .
The training also encouraged volunteers to deceive election workers and the public about who they were associated with. On page 3 of the packet, Romney poll workers were instructed to hide their affiliation with the campaign and told to sign in at the polls as a concerned citizen instead. As Kristina Sesek, Romneys legal counsel who just graduated from Marquette Law School last year, explained, Were going to have you sign in this election cycle as a concerned citizen. Were just trying to alleviate some of the animosity of being a Republican observer up front.
More at the link: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/30/1106961/romney-wisconsin-poll-watchers/
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Romney Campaign Training Poll Watchers To Mislead Voters In Wisconsin (Original Post)
Proud Public Servant
Oct 2012
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Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)1. How is this legal?
GitRDun
(1,846 posts)2. If people knew 5% of who these Republicans really are:
This election would have been over before it started. Let's hope the demographic wave buries these guys before they can do much more damage.
mzmolly
(50,993 posts)3. This sounds like a federal crime.
Blue Owl
(50,383 posts)4. Remember how Rmoney used to dress up like a cop?
Cut from the same cloth, these deceptive charlatans...