Bullies at the Ballot Box - know your rights - stand up against 1M Tea Party Thugs

[janedrake]

Kudos to the great Melissa Harris-Perry for featuring this report on the Orwellian-named "True the Vote" and their plans to practice massive voter suppression at the citizen level:

Bullies at the Ballot Box:
http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files...-Final.pdf

Quote:As we approach the 2012 elections, every indication is that we will see an unprecedented use of voter challenges. Organizers of True the Vote claim their goal is to train one million poll watchers to challenge and confront other Americans as they go to the polls in November. They say they want to make the experience of voting “like driving and seeing the police following you.” There is a real danger that voters will face overzealous volunteers who take the law into their own hands to target voters they deem suspect. But there is no place for bullies at the ballot box.

http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files...-Final.pdf

State Laws Governing Pre-Election Day Challenges starts on Page 33 of the pdf - know your rights!

State Laws Governing Election Day Challenges starts on Page 38 of the pdf - know your rights!

State Laws Governing Poll Watchers and Poll Observers starts on Page 44 of the pdf - know your rights!

State Laws Addressing Voter Intimidation, Inside and Outside the Polls starts on Page 51 of the pdf - know your rights!

[jaxx]

Voters should call the police the minute anyone confronts them. This is intimidation and it has to be stopped.

[janedrake]

(09-15-2012 09:34 AM)jaxx Wrote:  Voters should call the police the minute anyone confronts them. This is intimidation and it has to be stopped.

I hear you, Jaxx, but it would not surprise me to learn some of these voter suppression thugs will turn out to be off-duty cops. And given the states that True the Vote plans to target the most heavily, I would imagine that a call to the police would end up being "dropped" more often than not -- but voters can fight back by knowing what the law is in their state.

[pappy]

(09-15-2012 09:34 AM)jaxx Wrote:  Voters should call the police the minute anyone confronts them. This is intimidation and it has to be stopped.

Baring that, I would demand a photo ID of the challenger and write down all necessary information letting that person understand to expect to hear from a lawyer. Throw the intimidation back at them and if they don't back down call the cops.