Republicans are mobilizing thousands of supporters to monitor early voting sites and ballot drop boxes in November's election, an effort that stretches the traditional definition of the roles of election observers.
WASHINGTON - Republicans are mobilizing thousands of supporters to monitor early voting sites and ballot drop boxes in November’s election, an effort that stretches the traditional definition of the roles of election observers.
State laws call observers inside polling places different things, and assign them different roles. In some places, poll “watchers” are different from “challengers,” who can point out people they suspect aren’t legal voters. In other states, poll watchers also do the challenging. In a 1999 city election in Hamtramck, Michigan, for example, challengers from a civic group called “Citizens for a Better Hamtramck” challenged 40 Arab-Americans who had “dark skin and distinctly Arabic names,” who were then forced by election officials to take an oath to prove they were citizens, according to a U.S. Justice Department consent decree. The city agreed to conduct training of its poll workers, and a federal examiner was appointed to oversee city elections through 2003.
Qualifications for poll workers also vary. They typically are supposed to be registered voters; in some states they must be certified in advance by election officials. North Carolina requires that poll workers be of “good moral character.” Generally, these advocates must keep a certain distance from the entrance, so as not to harass or intimidate voters.
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