The Republican party media goons have told their herd to be in the polling places doing as much as they can to make voting more difficult and intimidating for those likely not vote Republican. The results are starting to come now in early voting of what is going to be a massive campaign of vote intimidation and suppression on election day.
In NC is particularly bad in Wake county were the
Voters Complain About GOP Poll Watchers In N.C. County
In Wake County, N.C., elections officials have received a couple dozen complaints about intimidating Republican poll watchers at early voting locations.
The offending observers have reportedly stood behind the registration table (where they're not allowed) and taken pictures of the license plates of voters using curbside voting (also illegal), according to the director of the Wake County elections board. In other cases, director Cherie Poucher said, it's been a matter of voters finding normal, legal observing activities intimidating.
It is not just NC, this is an organized effort to undermine the most basic right of any Democracy - the right to vote freely and in secret. Remember polls watchers do represent their political parties and are trained by them
Poll watchers shouldn't get away with hassling voters
Across the nation - from Texas, Florida, New York, Vermont and now North Carolina - complaints are rolling about poll observers who are stepping out of line. Some are talking to voters, arguing with poll workers, challenging voters over identification - all of which is illegal.
One New York county got so many complaints about poll watcher intimidation that for the first time, it issued written rules - 11 in all - that watchers must follow.
In Texas they are targeting minority neighborhoods
http://www.khou.com/...
HOUSTON -- Conservative groups are alleging Harris County’s voting system is corrupt and they’re sending hundreds of "poll watchers" to monitor voting. That’s prompting liberal groups to complain the poll watchers are so numerous—and so white---that it amounts to intimidation in mostly black neighborhoods.
In Florida they are using cell phones to record what people vote, something that they are doing in other polling places.
FL GOP Poll Watcher Allegedly Records Information On Cell Phone
More allegations are surfacing against apparently untrained poll watchers, this time in Florida, where an early voter says a Republican poll watcher improperly used a cell phone to take pictures and record information.
If you have any more links to articles about Republican intimidation or personal accounts, add them in a comment to this diary. Maybe we can bring some traffic to the issue so the main media channels pick on it.