'We Want People Who Won't Be Afraid': MPD Union Forwards Call For Ex-Cops To Serve As Poll Challenge [View all]

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Source: WCCO (CBS affiliate, Minneapolis)

'We Want People Who Won't Be Afraid': MPD (Minneapolis Police Department) Union Forwards Call For Ex-Cops To Serve As Poll Challengers

An official with the Trump campaign is looking for retired police officers to be poll challengers on Election Day.

The ask was made to the Minneapolis Police Union. Union officials then put out the call for retired officers to serve as "eyes and ears" at polling sites in problem areas across the city on Tuesday.

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Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, sent the request to federation members asking them to please share and email him if they were willing to assist.



Read more: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/10/29/you-cant-just-show-up-mpd-puts-out-call-for-ex-cops-to-serve-as-poll-challengers/

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Secretary of State Steve Simon says Minnesota has laws that limit the role of poll challengers on Election Day.

"You cant just show up and say, 'I'm here to be a poll watcher or challenger,'" he said. "The law is really clear on poll challengers. Every major political party gets one just one and they have to designate that person in writing, and once the person gets there to be a challenger they face some restrictions. They can't come within 6 feet of a voter. They cant speak to a voter."

[and more on the restrictions on poll watchers at the link ... the challenge must be based on knowledge of the voter and not on a whim or a hunch etc. etc.]

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Sample background information:

MPD union president stumps for Trump in online video, October 2, 2020
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/10/02/mpd-union-president-stumps-for-trump-in-online-video

Anyway he has a long history of being a first class asswipe and Trump political apparatchik.

As a needless reminder, it was Minneapolis police officers who killed George Floyd