Trump 'Army' of Poll Watchers Led By Veteran of Fraud Claims
Source: AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) A veteran Republican operative who got his start in politics by helping to persuade a judge to throw out hundreds of mail-in ballots is organizing an army of volunteers for President Donald Trumps campaign to monitor voting in Democratic-leaning areas on Tuesday.
Mike Roman, Trumps director of Election Day Operations, is a former White House aide from Pennsylvania who gathered claims in 1993 of voter fraud, resulting in a court ruling overturning election results and getting his candidate seated in the Pennsylvania State Senate. Its a strategy that Trump has been advocating on Twitter and on the stump.
For months the president has been trying to undercut the validity of mail-in ballots, a long-used method of voting that was up this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last week, Trump has also suggested that any votes tabulated after Election Day are suspect, even as his campaign has opposed plans by elections officials to start counting mail-in ballots early.
Roman, who previously ran the secretive in-house intelligence unit for the political network led by GOP mega-donors Charles and David Koch, has organized a purported 50,000 poll watchers, many of them through an Army For Trump website that asks his supporters to enlist in his reelection fight. The campaign also has hired full-time staff in at least 11 battleground states to organize the effort, several of them young lawyers.
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We all know that the Democrats will be up to their old dirty tricks on Election Day to make sure President Trump doesnt win. We cannot let that happen said the Trump 2020 press communications director in a video to recruit volunteers.
Mike Roman has made many unsubstantiated allegations of fraud and rigging, he has a history and general reputation as someone who stirs things up, so his presence in any Election Day issues gives me pause, said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the Univ. of Ca. Irvine, who studies elections law.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)You will deserve it.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,006 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)The word is watch, anything more and your out the door.
JohnnyRingo
(18,614 posts)They're just fired up republicans. They're lazy as anyone and when it comes time to report (st 6:00 AM), they'll find something else to do. 40,000 my ass. The ones that do show up will find out they aren't allowed to hang out in the warm building in November and will be home for lunch.
This isn't like driving around in a flag festooned bro truck blowing the horn.
BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)he'll give 'em a free ride to the free lodging.