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RandySF

(70,156 posts) Fri Sep 6, 2024, 07:13 PM Sep 6

RNC Wants This Rabid Conspiracy Theorist Training Poll Workers

The guy who pushed the #Pizzagate conspiracy theory in 2016 and the #StoptheSteal lie in 2020 is a part of the official Republican “protect the vote” initiative—because of course he is.

According to an email shared by HuffPost politics reporter Igor Bobic, RNC’s Election Integrity Department is advertising a webinar with Jack Posobiec to teach Wisconsinites “how YOU can help protect the vote.”

The effort is part of the RNC’s “Protect the Vote” project, a battleground state initiative to recruit and train “thousands of poll watchers” for the November election. But their surrogates are just as sketchy as you might imagine.

Posobiec, whom the RNC calls a “great patriot,” is a political operative who has “collaborated with white nationalists, antigovernment extremists, members of the Proud Boys, and neo-Nazis in his capacity as an operative,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is probably most remembered for his role in Pizzagate, in which he spread the 2016 conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians like Hillary Clinton were running a pedophilic sex dungeon below a D.C. pizza joint. His story led to a gunman opening fire inside the pizzeria.

https://newrepublic.com/post/185688/rnc-conspiracy-theorist-jack-posobiec-poll-workers

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Fri Sep 6, 2024, 07:59 PM

Sep 6

I understand there is a need for new poll workers in several districts, and that these MAGA trainees could soon be working the polls with their shenanigans.

But, how much they'll accomplish is debatable.

Here's why: There will be veteran poll workers working alongside of them. And municipal clerks popping in on a regular basis to make sure operations are going smoothly.

And if the newbies try to abuse their positions at the expense of running a competent election, the veterans and the clerks will take care of them. Their antics won't be disguised and/or tolerated.

I know this as I've been a poll worker for more than a decade. If I make even an innocuous mistake, boy do I hear it from all sides. I am corrected; I am monitored; sometimes my transgression will be recorded in a book that goes to the county election bureau.

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