Emboldened Republican poll watchers, including many who embrace former President Donald Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election, are expected to flood election offices and polling places.
GOLDSBORO, N.C. — The situation with the poll watcher had gotten so bad that Anne Risku, the election director in North Carolina's Wayne County, had to intervene via speakerphone.
"It becomes complete babysitting,” Risku said in an interview. “The back and forth for the precinct officials, having somebody constantly on you for every little thing that you do — not because you’re doing it wrong, but because they don’t agree with what you’re doing.” Chris Harvey, who was Georgia's election director in 2020 when Trump claimed the election was being stolen from him, recalled how swarms of Trump backers came as self-appointed poll watchers to observe the state's manual recounts, harassing election workers and disrupting the process. Harvey fears a repeat this year.
Mitchell said her organization, the Election Integrity Network, is just trying to ensure that everyone follows the law. On two occasions, the man tried to follow her back to the elections office in Goldsboro, about a 20-minute drive. He has declined to allow reporters to attend the training sessions, which he said have trained 7,000 potential poll watchers so far this year.
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