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“WASHINGTON — It is perhaps a metaphor for the times that even the volunteer who checked you into the polls in November now has a legal defense committee.
The Election Official Legal Defense Network, which made its public debut on Sept. 7, offers to represent more than just poll workers, of course. Formed to counter the waves of political pressure and public bullying that election workers have faced in the last year, the organization pledges free legal services to anyone involved in the voting process, from secretaries of state to local election officials and volunteers….
The network is the creation of two powerhouses in Republican and Democratic legal circles, Benjamin L. Ginsberg and Bob Bauer. In a Washington Post opinion piece this month, the two — Mr. Ginsberg was a premier G.O.P. lawyer for 38 years and Mr. Bauer was both a Democratic Party lawyer and White House counsel in the Obama administration…
One third of election workers say they feel unsafe in their jobs, according to a survey released this summer by the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. In Colorado, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and other states, ardent believers in Mr. Trump’s stolen-election lies have threatened state and local election officials and their families with violence and even death. Some election workers have gone into hiding or sought police protection.”
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it is friggin disgusting that volunteer poll workers are so under siege that they need a legal defense fund. Desperate Republicans have passed law subjecting election workers to prosecution or massive civil penalties for failing to follow new absurd voting laws to a tee. Then on top of that you have lunatics threatening them and their families, just how pathetic is that. These Trumpers have it backward. What needs to be done is to impose high civil penalties and make mandatory sentences for those that threatened poll wokers.
The Election Official Legal Defense Network, which made its public debut on Sept. 7, offers to represent more than just poll workers, of course. Formed to counter the waves of political pressure and public bullying that election workers have faced in the last year, the organization pledges free legal services to anyone involved in the voting process, from secretaries of state to local election officials and volunteers….
The network is the creation of two powerhouses in Republican and Democratic legal circles, Benjamin L. Ginsberg and Bob Bauer. In a Washington Post opinion piece this month, the two — Mr. Ginsberg was a premier G.O.P. lawyer for 38 years and Mr. Bauer was both a Democratic Party lawyer and White House counsel in the Obama administration…
One third of election workers say they feel unsafe in their jobs, according to a survey released this summer by the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. In Colorado, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and other states, ardent believers in Mr. Trump’s stolen-election lies have threatened state and local election officials and their families with violence and even death. Some election workers have gone into hiding or sought police protection.”
Harassed and Harangued, Poll Workers Now Have a New Form of Defense (Published 2021)
Threatened by extremists and under fire by politicians, election workers now have their own legal defense network. It’s a perk they never expected to need.
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it is friggin disgusting that volunteer poll workers are so under siege that they need a legal defense fund. Desperate Republicans have passed law subjecting election workers to prosecution or massive civil penalties for failing to follow new absurd voting laws to a tee. Then on top of that you have lunatics threatening them and their families, just how pathetic is that. These Trumpers have it backward. What needs to be done is to impose high civil penalties and make mandatory sentences for those that threatened poll wokers.
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