Religious Right, Social Conservative Groups Sign Up Volunteers To Police Elections For Voter Fraud
'Religious right in drive to police election amid dubious voter fraud claims.' Rightwing groups sign up thousands of volunteers to watch for alleged fraud linked to mail-in ballots, despite scant evidence. By Peter Stone in DC, The Guardian, Sept. 11, 2020.
Religious right and social conservative groups are training thousands of volunteers in key 2020 battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to watch for alleged fraud with the expansion of mail-in ballots, plus filing lawsuits to block more voting by mail, which they claim with scant evidence will lead to sizable election fraud.
Texas-based True the Vote, a central player in the right’s anti-vote-by-mail drives, has trained about 10,000 volunteers in areas including handwriting analysis who are expected to volunteer in key counties such as Allegheny in Pennsylvania and Las Vegas in Nevada to detect voting fraud by mail and at the polls, said True the Vote’s founder, Catherine Engelbrecht.
True the Vote, which has Tea Party roots, has done training sessions with several national religious and social conservative groups such as Intercessors for America, the Thomas More Law Center and Eagle Forum, as well as a few dozen smaller local groups nationwide, said Engelbrecht. “I’m particularly concerned about mail-in voting fraud,” Engelbrecht said, though there has been little evidence produced that mail-in voting fraud has ever been a significant problem in American elections.
For Engelbrecht, however, the mission to police the 2020 electoral process is almost a religious one. That message was palpable on a 1 May monthly prayer call hosted by Intercessors, when Engelbrecht called the fight to curb mail-in voting a “spiritual battle” for “control of the free world”, according to Right Wing Watch, which tracks conservative groups for the liberal People for the American Way...
More, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/11/religious-right-polling-places-election-voter-fraud
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- 'Right Wing Christians Are Training Thousands of Volunteers To Help Interfere In The Election,' Alternet
https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/right-wing-christians-are-training-thousands-of-volunteers-to-help-interfere-in-the-election/
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