Election officials fear that a surge of conspiracy believers are signing up for the positions this year and are being trained by others who have propagated the lie spread by former President Donald Trump.
, Jim Marchant, denies President Joe Biden's 2020 victory and was a featured speaker at a party poll watcher training.
“The whole tension that we're expecting to see at polling places is something we're talking to election officials about, something we're talking to law enforcement about,” said Harvey, who is advising a group of election officials and law enforcement before November. Mitchell said her organization, the Election Integrity Network, is just trying to ensure that everyone follows the law.
In addition to the poll watcher who had to be ejected, Risku said another Republican poll watcher in her district waited after hours in the parking lot of the Mount Olive Train Depot early voting site until Chief Judge Susan Wiley began carrying boxes of marked ballots to her car. The North Carolina GOP chairman, Michael Whatley, said that's not what the party is teaching its poll watchers.
As in many states, poll watchers are only permitted in North Carolina if they have been designated by the major parties. But in Michigan, organizations that register with local election offices also can provide poll watchers. A coalition of groups that have questioned the 2020 election are scrambling to get as many of their members in place as possible in the politically critical state.
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