The Tea Party Plan To Disrupt Delaware’s Election
Apparently the Tea Party is not ready to accept Christine O’Donnell’s likely defeat. The Albany Tea Party is recruiting out-of-state volunteers to be “poll watchers” in several states, including Delaware.
Here is what the poll watchers plan to do:
Information about Poll Watching
Tea Party Patriots powered by our friends at Let Freedom Ring are looking for super-volunteers who will be technology-empowered poll watchers helping turnout every single Tea-Party friendly voter and bringing sunlight and accountability into the polling place on Election Day.
With our GOTV test program we need super-volunteers with either a smart-phone or internet connected lap top to take a four hour shift at polls in one of 21 congressional districts in 8 key states. We need volunteers in all fifty states who can focus on voting integrity.
Obviously our carpetbagger candidate needs to bring out-of-state volunteers in to drag her over the finish line. She’s not catching on in the state, judging by reports of the less than a dozen “Hispanics for O’Donnell” that showed up at her event last night (before her security guards threw out Ginger Gibson).
In the past, Republican poll watchers have challenged Democratic voters and can make voting a real hassle. I expect they will be placed in mostly Democratic areas, probably low-income districts.
Tags: Christine O'Donnell, DE-Sen, Delaware, Teabaggers
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good lord, jason. that is a disturbing link. It’s like these people cant wait for a second civil war.
I wonder what those JV Klansmen would have done to people protesting Miller.
We can only hope this debate is the final nail in her proverbial coffin–there are no words!
No one will disrupt voting if Mongo is at the polling place. But Mongo is but one man. We must be ready to respond if anyone tries to anyone tries shenanigans. The party should give everyone a number to call in case the tea hits the fan.
How else can we anticipate and nullify this threat?
Mongo
Add more “mongos” at the polls
More Aoines too. And Jasons. Etc….
It’s about time Ginger got bounced. Never has anything good to say about Christine in her articles. And you all shouldn’t feel threatened by a few outsiders working the polls. Coons has her beat by double digits, right?
What is DE election law regarding this? Can someone who is not a DE resident challenge a DE voter? Can you challenge a challenger? Demand to see a challenger’s ID? Photograph a challenger?
Anyone working the polls on Election Day should have Democratic HQ, 911, and the Department of Elections phone numbers in their speed dials to counter any BS the teabaggers pull. And have either a video camera or a still camera to record everything.
Everything Ginger Gibson ever wrote about O’Donnell was absolutely accurate and true. The lien, not having a degree, the foreclosure, every bit of it.
O’Donnell turned around and spread her whisper lie campaign that Gibson got taken off the Bobby Jindal beat in LA, when the truth was that Gibson actually GRADUATED COLLEGE and left LA to GET A JOB, two things that COD has floundered at for decades.
I would vote for Ginger Gibson to go to the US Senate before that liar and pathetic rumor mongerer Christine O’Donnell.
Help! The Teabaggers are coming! Help! Help! They’re trying to steal our votes! Help!
IN case you’ve never voted, Delbert, each party has someone stationed at every polling place to challenge voters they suspect are not eligible.
It’s about time Ginger got bounced.
Delaware is just about the only market where a journalist takes a step UP by moving to Newark, New Jersey.
After voting early, I’ll hang at my polling place with a pleasant smile at a discreet distance.
Tea-people hassling anyone will be dealt with.
It’s ironic, really, that only razor wire will flourish if we should meet under adverse circumstance.
GOP now paying wingnut GW undergrads to come to Delaware and fuck with our election.
…with either a smart-phone or internet connected lap top…
I believe in Delaware, that right there would get you evicted from the inside of a polling location, provided that they are turned on and being actively used.
“Checker-Challengers” in Delaware have been provided by the major parties for eons. For the most part (I’m sure some exceptions exist somewhere), the challenges are mild and mostly just mistakes. To clarify, these are the admirable souls who more or less volunteer their entire election day (except for when they go and vote themselves) to sit behind the DOE officials, off in the background, simply to cross off names and provide the tear-sheets to the runners who then work the GOTV effort on those whose names have not yet been stricken. This is actually a technological improvement (/snark) over the index card method of many years ago. Yes, they can challenge, but it’s not often to happen. Most challenges come from the DOE-hired officials that you see on the ‘front-lines’ where they check your ID, etc.
If any DE D or R committee wants to “outsource” to an out-of-stater group for that role, then they are selling themselves out and purely foolish. Doing so individually, because person A knows person B from PA, is one thing, but what’s covered here would be stupid.
Unless this group overthrows the DOE and inserts themselves on those front-lines, their best plan of attack will be outside with all the greeters and that may not last too long.
What a ridiculous post, even for you guys. BOTH parties routinely have checker-challengers at all or nearly all polling places, and, incidentally, enough, that’s what the law allows. Third-party groups, however, are not permitted to hang out in the polling place.