Wisconsin GOPers, Like RNC, Signing Up, Paying Pole Watchers
View Source | September 20, 2022 4:48 pm
- In Wisconsin’s Brown County, the local Republican Party says it has signed up 100-plus poll watchers and is working to recruit more volunteers
- The Wisconsin effort appears just part of a larger GOP initiative.
- The Republican National Committee reportedly has started a multimillion-dollar effort to recruit tens of thousands of poll watchers and workers and has hired dozens of staff to monitor voting.
- Many Republican voters remain skeptical about the results of the 2020 election in which then-GOP President Trump lost reelection.
- Supporters of the polls watching argue the efforts helps ensure the GOP’s turn-out-the-vote efforts.
- Democrats are raising concerns that having partisan volunteers could intimidate voters or election officials.
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