• cattywampas@lemmy.world
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    Remember folks: if you’re concerned about election integrity at your polling place, you too can sign up to be an election judge and/or poll watcher! Do it now!

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      But if there are people attempting to intimidate voters, can we get them cleared out? Being able to make this complaint is at least as important

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    Any plans on having these monitors armed? Also:

    In order to reach 1,000 monitors for the upcoming election, a DOJ spokesperson told CBS News that the department will seek federal employees to volunteer for the effort. A department official added that the recruitment will target DOJ employees, including people in U.S. Attorney’s Offices throughout the country.

    What qualifications will they have?

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              Lil’ Marco is not the only one, lol:

              https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fashion-florsheim-shoes-aides-b2935206.html

              “It’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” one insider told the WSJ. “All the boys have them,” another said.

              Reported recipients include Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Communications Director Steven Cheung, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

              Vance told the WSJ that Trump then produced a Florsheim catalogue and asked everyone their size. When another man said he wore size seven shoes, Vance said, Trump “kind of leans back in his chair and says, ‘You know, you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.’”

              LOL, no you can’t.

              Anyway, long long ago I worked at a company where the owner-CEO had all this bullshit hero-worship going on around him and he wore these rather singular-looking shoes - they looked like shower shoes, except they weren’t. All of a sudden, a bunch of his little mini-me’s started wearing the exact same thing.

              I just felt embarrassed for them - adult men, doing the same thing as their hero. The whole place was downright bizarre and cult-like.

              This was during the dot-com bubble, so things were very tight, otherwise no way in hell would I have stuck around. But also: I was not going to be some monkey-see-monkey-do dumbass like these other guys. Turns out I got laid off anyway, but due that, I found a much better job.

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                Lol I remember reading the Guardians coverage on this and just laughing and shaking my head…so on brand for these clowns.

                Ha funny story and thanks for sharing, but yah its a cult. People are operating with cult like traits and its just baffling. Do they really think they will come out better off once this shit show takes a different direction lol

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            Have you seen Trump’s puffy lip fillers? He looks like he’s pouting 24/7.

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          Wow Guillfoyle or whatever her name is is looking pretty mar a lagoed in her face. Laura Loomer is the worst of them though. But Kristi Noem also is pretty gross now, she looked better before she butchered her face.

          They have to take off their faces at night and soak them in that shit they claim democrats harvest from kids to keep them young I hear.

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            Yah it’s wild isn’t it? It’s like they all went to the same doctor. And agreed, what the hell happened to Noem, when she was a senator she looked amazing but now, dear lord, yikes.

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    Time to monitor the monitors. We need to keep an eye on every single one of these poison pills.

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      No problem, volunteer to be a poll worker for your county.

      If you’re there in an official capacity they can’t complain about you loitering or ask you to leave.

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        For most states you are also paid for your time as a poll worker. Attend the training, follow directions, and you’re good to go.

        Depending on the city the paycheck varies and some pay more than others. It’s a nice way to earn some extra money and doesn’t require much more work than checking drivers licenses, using a laptop, setting up booths, and doing some light paperwork.

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          I plan on it, I’m in a small town and we need volunteers. I’m a little afraid of violence but it is what it is.

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            Don’t worry about it too much. You’re gonna be working with some no-nonsense lady named Cathy who’s been doing this for 30 years and she won’t take any guff from anyone.

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            In my experience, poll working is about as dangerous as watching paint dry. Also, about as exciting.

            Even when something does pop off - the Brooks Brother’s Riot because the only genuinely dramatic incident I could think of in the last 30 years - it’s highly localized and ultimately uneventful (from a violence perspective).

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              There was a lot that went on in 2020 as far as attempted and threatened violence against poll workers. Thousands of death threats for starters. Angry crowds outside detroit trying to bully them into stopping the vote count, and so forth. Plus their campaign against the georgia poll workers.

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      If you follow their monitors around they will have you arrested and bring you up on serious federal charges of interfering with a federal official. It doesn’t matter how demonstrably false the accusations are, federal judges are cunts.

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    These will be polling places where the election is likely to be hotly contested. Expect violence and other voter suppression tactics.