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i read the mit romney campaign is training poll watchers to mislead voters
in wisconsin
we covered this kind of ten jen chile in the past not specifically in wisconsin
and now think progress has obtained imagine that i even after this may rest
we still site think progress because they do do good work when they're not
sneering do you do
i'm smart funny when people use a
that were twice in a row they do do good work
it is a little weird when it when i hear myself there
moving on up
there's documents that have been uncovered by think progress which
indicated that these poll watchers are being trained
which is flatly wrong information here's an example captains on page five of the
training package
it tells watcher poll watchers that anyone who has been convicted of treason
a felony or bribery is not eligible to vote
it's just not true
ones haven't wisconsin voter has been convicted of a felony
and they complete whatever sentence was assigned to them they are eligible to
vote that's one example concerning
yes definitely let's go on
uh... there's three other incredibly misleading was on page eight
it lists items as the only acceptable proofs of residency
the reality is that the list is very very lacking in terms of its it's uh...
completion
there are a number of document not listed there that people can use as
proof of residency including a letter from the public school
student loans papered the student loan papers are number of other things again
poll watchers are being trained incorrectly
and what's the real goal here
just to create confusion to create conflict to contest votes to get people
maybe could be intimidated and we've you know what this is all about louis
this is about getting less people to vote for obama
alexi here's another example is the handicap the voters are able to come in
to the polls and assistant can deliver the ballot to the voter
if it is verified that they are uh... residence
the real
law is that under wisconsin law the chief election inspector does not have
to verify proof of residence
as long as the voter is registered again
we're talking about
bringing down the electorate a little bit we're talking first about people who
are uh... handicapped voters
as written by the law then we're talking about uh... people who may have uh...
of whom it may have committed a felony record talking about a few percentage
here a few percentage here reduce the number of people who might vote as much
as you possibly can
another claim election observers should not assist voters that's on page ten of
the stamp but the reality is
that the voter can ask resist assistance from anyone including poll watchers as
long as the voter initiates that request
who is that going to target people who may be is the first time voting eighty
elderly people while little bit of direction about where exactly is of my
precinct where exactly should i be standing where do i go is there a place
where i can sit and fill out my ballot all of these things again making it
making it appear so that if someone asks for help one of these incorrectly
trained poll watchers is gonna run over and say no no no you can't do that one
or two percent a year you're talking about maybe affecting eight or ten
percent of the electorate significant stuff
and uh...
of course
no surprise the state that it's happening in
is should they should be
completely illegal and they should be
people going after
this type of activity but unfortunately
it so i mean if falls in kind of a gray area where it's not really
what's the word
misinformation worries there is you know you think there's no catalyst really for
six days before the election to start prosecuting this brand it would take a
long enough but it's just it the effect is being done
but look what happened uh... look what happened
a few elections ago look what happened
uh... in the carey election right annie will happen in florida