RNC Warns Against Poll Watching, Citing Decades-Ol
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Posted On: 10/20/2016 5:19:21 PM
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RNC Warns Against Poll Watching, Citing Decades-Old Court Decree
Short take: "Knock of the shit fellow GOPER knuckleheads!
We're operating under a still in force consent decree imposed on us for f*cking around 34 years ago. A 'learning organization' we're not".
LOL!
Source: Talking Points Memo
By TIERNEY SNEED Published OCTOBER 20, 2016, 12:09 PM EDT
Fearful that a decades-old court order blocking the Republican Party from engaging in certain Election Day activities could be extended for many more years, the RNC is warning its members not to engage in poll watching or any other so-called "ballot security" measures.
The RNC's concerns are heightened because of the vigilante poll watching GOP nominee Donald Trump has been calling for from the stump.
A lawyer for the Republican National Committee sent a letter on the issue Wednesday to RNC members, the Wall Street Journal reported. The letter cites a 1982 consent decree the RNC agreed to after Democrats sued it for activities at polling places that they said were aimed at suppressing the minority vote.
The letter, sent to members from RNC general counsel John Ryder, said that he wanted “remind you of the restrictions placed on the RNC by the consent decree,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
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