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The Velveteen Ocelot

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2. What are they supposed to be doing? Poll *watchers* are illegal in Minnesota.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2020, 02:40 PM

Oct 2020

And nobody who isn't there to vote can stand around a polling place anyhow:

"204C.06 CONDUCT IN AND NEAR POLLING PLACES.
§Subdivision 1.Persons allowed near polling place. An individual shall be allowed to go to and from the polling place for the purpose of voting without unlawful interference. No one except an election official or an individual who is waiting to register or to vote or an individual who is conducting exit polling shall stand within 100 feet of the building in which a polling place is located. "

Poll challengers must have personal knowledge that an individual is ineligible to vote in that location.
https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/election-day-voting/rules-for-challengers/

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Former Special Forces sought by business group to guard polling sites in Minnesota, company says ... [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2020 OP

ahhh, new rat fuckery.... Thomas Hurt Oct 2020 #1

What are they supposed to be doing? Poll *watchers* are illegal in Minnesota. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2020 #2

I received an email from the DFL about being a poll watcher dflprincess Oct 2020 #7

The Secretary of State's web site makes the distinction: The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2020 #8

I think the DFL was using the term watcher because it's what most people have heard dflprincess Oct 2020 #10

I wonder what polling sites they plan to "guard"? dflprincess Oct 2020 #3

Repugs are cutting back on ads, so they can spend money on this instead. Hmm progree Oct 2020 #4

Who is the company? geardaddy Oct 2020 #5

One of Trump's kids was in Becker recently Randomthought Oct 2020 #11

Secretary of State responds progree Oct 2020 #6

I wondered about the gun thing dflprincess Oct 2020 #9