Ohio Judge Blocks Trump Supporters from 'Exit Polling'

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NOV 4 2016, 5:04 PM ET
by PETE WILLIAMS

A federal judge in Ohio issued an order Friday barring supporters of Donald Trump from trying to intimidate voters.

Effective immediately and until the voting is done, they are barred from hindering or delaying a prospective voter from reaching the polling place and casting a ballot.

The order, issued by U.S. District Judge James Gwin, also applies to pro-Trump operative Roger Stone. It forbids questioning voters "under the guise of the purported 'exit polling' or 'citizen journalist' operations organized and encouraged" by Stone and a group called Stop the Steal ...

Similar lawsuits have been filed by Democrats in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, and Nevada.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/ohio-judge-blocks-trump-supporters-exit-polling-n678236

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1. In Orange County, mostly white residents heedTrump's call to be on the lookout for voter fraud (CA)

Cindy Carcamo
November 5

Linda Reedy has long been convinced that voter fraud was afoot, with ballots cast even by people who were not American citizens ...

Reedy not only trained to become an observer, she opened her home this week for others to learn from a coordinator for the private Election Integrity Project how to keep an eye out for irregularities on Tuesday.

“I just want to make sure that people who are eligible to vote are able to vote,” Reedy said. “And that they aren’t being cheated or manipulated by any party.”

She waved off studies that stated that voting fraud is rare. Those researchers, she said, just aren’t “looking in the right places” ...

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-oc-poll-observer-20161102-story.html