'This election cycle is unique': Officials prepare for voter intimidation threats

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Election officials across the country have begun reviewing security plans at early and Election Day voting sites, strengthening ties with local law enforcement and training poll workers to prepare for voter intimidation tactics.

Even before the presidential debate, when President Donald Trump urged his supporters to “go into the polls and watch very carefully,” Michelle Wilcox, the director of elections in Auglaize County, Ohio, was concerned about disruptions at the polls this year.



https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/17/election-officials-see-voter-intimidation-threats-harassment-tactics/3677238001/

[underpants]

1. I get the anecdotes but 80% of the way through the article they finally

get to the relevant part

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/Voting-republicans-trump.html

[Johnny2X2X]

2. 25 million people have already voted!

They better get to intimidating quick!

https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html

These early and absentee voting numbers are staggering and completely destroy the Cons plans to suppress the vote on Election Day. There’s a very good chance Biden has 50-60 million votes before Election Day.

[Rice4VP]

3. Exactly

The only people they will encounter is republicans who think that only Election Day votes count.

[GulfCoast66]

4. Republicans living in the past. The country has changed since 1980. I know because I remember 1980

Back then having goons at the polls might have given some people pause. Today they will be told to Fuck Off.

Trying to keep people from voting at the polling place is a good way to get a beat down.