Republicans in Michigan are working to take control of election proceedings by stocking polling places with “undercover agents.'
. Not for the purposes of ensuring a fair and free election, but to ensure their candidates win. In June,of meetings between Michigan GOP operatives and activists discussing plans to create an “army” of lawyers and poll watchers poised to challenge election results virtually in real time.
Jennifer Morrell, co-founder of The Elections Group, described the problem to CNN as a “group of people operating on their own, outside of the statutory requirements and procedures” and warned that the situation “creates a recipe for, at best, tense situations, and at worst, escalating to violent confrontation,” given that observers “don’t need to see something that’s an actual problem; they could record or take notes of something they don’t think looks right” and escalate the situation.
Examples of this kind of misinterpretation and escalation can be found in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Poll worker Shaye Mossfrom Trump supporters who believed she and her mother had exchanged a “USB drive” full of votes while working at the polls. When asked by Rep. Adam Schiff during her testimony before the Jan. 6 committee what her mother had passed her Moss replied “a ginger mint.” to the report with an assertion that anyone breaking election law “should think twice about it.
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