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Justin, Thanks for all you do to keep us up to date on the political scene, good and bad. Without your information many would be in the dark.

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Thank you, Jacqueline. Doing my best. Appreciate the support.

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It’s not illegal to pay people to register voters. Registering voters is a nonpartisan activity. You can’t control what people put in their registration form. Canvass programs will do spot checks both in the field and once the forms have been handed in to a manager. It is very easy to spot problems. Voter fraud is a smoke screen to make falls claims and undermine trust.

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Below is a Substack response from a woman who is a poll watcher at the voting place in Florida where the machete wielding young man (he was in a group of harassers) was arrested. Apparently the Florida Republican Party praised the police but, as usual, blamed the Democrats, because of the assassination attempts. Disgusting all around.

“That could have been me or one of my activist friends. I sign wave there, have been a poll watcher there and have been verbally abused by these monsters on a regular basis.

Not to mention, this is a LIBRARY. There are children there, seniors, all citizens using the library for it's intended purpose, and as a polling place. What has happened to our nation? This is what 10 years of non stop lies and hateful rhetoric cause.

It is just so tragic.”

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You talked about Lone Wolves on the podcast. I don't know if the degenerates who harass poll workers are this rational, but it occurs to me that they may act as lone wolves because if they're organized, it increases their risk (if caught and charged) of facing RICO charges - much more serious.

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Justin, sadly, I have to agree with you that it's on a war footing now. I'm worried, like many of you, that there will be violence at the polls on Election Day. In the many postcards I mailed to voters in battleground states in the past couple of months, I often suggested voting in advance at drop boxes, or by mail-in ballot - I feared people would be afraid to vote in person. Now we're hearing about 2 fires being deliberately started at drop boxes (likely by the same person). I hope voters who used those particular boxes know to follow up and learn if their ballot was destroyed so they'll have a chance to replace it.

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