GA Republicans Take Action After Blue Strongholds Extend Deadlines, Lock Out Poll Watchers

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GA Republicans Take Action After Blue Strongholds Extend Deadlines, Lock Out Poll Watchers

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By Cullen McCue
November 2, 2024

Republicans in Georgia are taking action after a number of counties in the state announced that they would be accepting ballots after the state’s early voting deadline of November 1. An email reportedly sent by Fulton County Registration Manager Kathryn Glenn instructs election officials to bar poll watchers from polling locations, a flagrant violation of Georgia election law, Republicans have said.

“FYI – There are NO WATCHERS approved for ballot drop off! Do not let them in the building,” reads the email, which was sent to Fulton County election officials. “If they want to observe from the parking lot, you can’t stop that but they are not allowed to sit in the building. Have your security detail enforce it!!”

In response to the email, Georgia Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon condemned the “blatant violation of Georgia poll watching law.”

“Emboldened by the failure of our judicial branch to stop their changing election rules days before Election Day, Georgia Democrats and their allies in Fulton County are banning poll watchers from observing their ‘special’ weekend operations to try to bank more Democrat absentee ballots,” McKoon wrote in a statement.

“We all know what is going on — Democrats are panicked by the incredible Republican turnout in early voting and will do anything to try to catch up even if it means doing it under the cover of darkness and stiff arming any independent observation of whatever the hell is going on in their four ‘special voting locations’ open today with no notice or approval by anyone authorized to oversee elections administration,” the statement continued.

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[Free Vulcan]

Being the State is GOP controlled - time for the leadership to step up. This is as flagrant as it gets.

Add: Looks like from the article the are.

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Poll workers DO NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY to 'ban' watchers.
I do not understand why the watchers do not simply ignore them.
Is it going to get physical? Anything other than physical force should be ignored.

[Free Vulcan]

Poll workers DO NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY to 'ban' watchers.
I do not understand why the watchers do not simply ignore them.
Is it going to get physical? Anything other than physical force should be ignored.

This is where  ambush and escalation forces their hand. Walk in unannounced with watchers and lawyers as backup, with the State on speed dial. They will respond with threats and maybe call the local po po.

You then trump that with state officials and arrest any of them that resist, including and especially the po po. Man the place with a state controlled security force and scrutinize everything that is done till the last vote is counted.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Being the State is GOP controlled - time for the leadership to step up. This is as flagrant as it gets.

Add: Looks like from the article the are.

No, the Party is taking action, but the GOP controlled state authorities are not.  They are complicit as a fellow member insightfully pointed out here
https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,420356.msg3093502.html#msg3093502