Specter of election day violence looms as Trump spurs vigilante poll watchers

[uawchild]

Source: The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump’s claims of “large-scale” voter fraud have prompted officials across the political spectrum to warn about the dangers of vigilante poll monitors amid fears of confrontations or even violence on US election day.

As opinion polls tightened this week between Trump and Hillary Clinton ahead of Tuesday’s presidential vote, there are concerns of chaos following his claims, without serious evidence, that the election could be “rigged” and his refusal to say if he will accept the outcome.


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The Democrat party has launched a series of legal challenges around the country alleging voter intimidation, and on Friday in the battleground state of Ohio a judge issued a temporary restraining order against Trump’s campaign and his unofficial adviser Roger Stone. The ruling said anyone who engaged in intimidation or harassment inside or near Ohio polling places would face contempt of court charges.

Republican leaders in some battleground states are reporting a surge of volunteers signing up to serve as official poll watchers, and in an unprecedented move, the Trump campaign itself has since August been requesting that volunteers sign up as “election observers” to “Help Me Stop Crooked Hillary From Rigging This Election!”. Stone, meanwhile, has said he has helped recruit people to do “exit polls” to tackle voter fraud and denies .


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/05/election-day-violence-donald-trump-poll-watchers

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This is madness and outright incitement of hate groups to harass voters.

From the article:

"The nation’s most prominent anti-government militia and a neo-Nazi group have also announced plans to send their members to monitor for voter fraud outside the polls."

[BumRushDaShow]

1. "The Democrat party" - The Guardian ought to be ASHAMED of themselves

[uawchild]

2. Good Catch, but I think its a typo...

From Wikipedia:

"The Guardian was also named Newspaper of the Year in the 2014 British Press Awards for reporting on government surveillance.[12]

The paper is still occasionally referred to by its nickname of The Grauniad, given originally for the purported frequency of its typographical errors.[13]"

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

But who knows... Again, good catch.

[Odin2005]

10. That's a common British screw-up.

In the UK there is a party called the Liberal Democrat Party and so the usage gets confused easily.

[Doc_Technical]

3. Direct quote from Guardian article,

"The Democratic party has launched a series of legal challenges around the country alleging voter intimidation..."

[anamandujano]

4. "This is madness and outright incitement of hate groups to harass voters." They see it. Why

do authorities here not see it? Incitement of violence has been all over tRump's campaign. Why does he not have to answer for it?

[AwakeAtLast]

5. My school is a polling site

For the FIRST TIME my principal sent a TEN POINT list of strategies for Tuesday. Basically we will be on a hard lockdown the entire day, and police presence on site.

[Amonester]

6. Reads like an article about an obscure banana republic

[forest444]

8. Well put.

So much, since Citizens United, has when it comes to our electoral politics. A crying shame really.

[forest444]

7. And now that Señor Vázquez greenlighted the RNC's voter harassment campaign,

just wait until 2018!

[liberalhistorian]

9. I'd like to see those fuckers

try any of that shit here on the western Indian reservation where I live. They'd regret it really quick!