Sadly this happens all the goddamn time. It is shockingly common.

I am glad you are so enlightened but not everyone is, and they certainly weren’t in 2020

There are orgs that do this! You need to sign up and do training in advance though

TLDR If you're voting today, it's a good day to remind yourself of what your voting rights are. /end

www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

DOJ typically does not exert that sort of influence, but given that their monitors are only being dispatched to high-profile states, and DOJ's announcement about the effort mentions "ballot security" (not, y'know, observing the implementation of the Voting Rights Act) I'm worried.
4/

Let's imagine there's a dispute during the check-in process. If the DOJ "pollwatcher" steps in to argue a certain voter should or should not be given access to the ballot, will a low level local election official feel empowered to push back against the weight of the federal government? 3/

Now, don't get me wrong, DOJ pollwatchers are a far cry from the Proud Boys.

But in an environment in which career civil servants are being purged from the govt and the DOJ is being used as a political retribution force, it's not exactly comforting, either. 2/

What struck me about Illia’s analysis is how familiar this tactic has become to the United States in such a short time; this sort of lawfare is being used by the MAGA movement to great success, particularly against disinformation researchers.

That piece is so friggin hard, I was v glad I only had two lines in it!

And Audrey in Little Shop! (This was back in 2015 👵🏻)