WASHINGTON — WHAT ARE THE RULES AROUND POLL WATCHING ON ELECTION DAY IN THE UNITED STATES?
President Donald Trump has been urging his supporters to go the polls and “watch very carefully,” raising concerns about possible voter intimidation. Monitoring the votes at polling places is allowed in most states, but rules vary and it’s not a free-for-all. States have established rules, in part, to avoid any hint that observers will harass or intimidate voters. There is a long history of whites intimidating and preventing Blacks from voting in the South. And the Republican Party had been prohibited from employing poll monitors until recently because of its own history of using them as a strategy for intimidation.
State rules vary on who can be a poll watcher, how many are allowed at polling places or local elections offices, and how they must conduct themselves inside the office or precinct. In most states, political parties, candidates and ballot issue committees can appoint poll watchers, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
This fall’s election will be the first in nearly 40 years in which the Republican National Committee will be out from under a consent decree that restricted its ability to engage in coordinated poll-watching activities. Democrats are concerned that could open the door for Republicans to engage in the same kind of voter intimidation that resulted in the consent decree in the first place in the early 1980s.
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Here in Hawaii, if you try to stand outside a polling place with a rifle, you’ll be arrested in two minutes. Anyway, we all voted by mail.
is this allowed?
How else can Democrats win? We must stop poll watchers. Dems need to cheat.
'In all cases, poll watchers are not allowed to interfere with the conduct of the election.' This needs to be strictly enforced.
Yeah, Trump domestic terrorists lurking at the polling places to intimidate and suppress the vote is illegal and I hope they get hauled off to a Graybar Hotel.
If anyone makes you feel uncomfortable at the polls, call the police. Don't wait. Most of this 'poll watching' is code for voter intimidation. We will not be intimidated!
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