Michigan GOP Trains Poll Workers To Violate Laws

September 7, 2022 Republicans, Trump cultists

CNN reports:

While volunteer partisan observers have always been trained by political parties and non-profit groups in Michigan, the Wayne County GOP had also invited poll workers — people hired and paid by the local clerk’s office. They are in charge of running the election, and their responsibilities can include checking voter IDs, counting ballots, and even securing voting equipment at the end of the day.

During the Wayne County training call, obtained by CNN, the presumption that Democrats cheat — thus justifying Republican rule-breaking — permeated the discussion. It offers a snapshot of one of the ways Trump-backing, MAGA-minded conspiracy theorists are intervening in the election process across the country, sometimes encouraging poll workers or volunteer observers to violate election rules

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Organizer Patrick Colbeck [photo] ran for Michigan governor in 2018, finishing third in the Republican primary. He was the partner of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in the production of Lindell’s election “movie.” During his time in the state senate, Colbeck was fond of mockingly referring to his salary as a “fixed income” – which critics saw as attack on the poor. In the photo below, you can see that Colbeck is flanked by what appears to be a member of the Three Percent militia. Colbeck last appeared on JMG when he got a cease-and-desist letter from Dominion Voting Systems.



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