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A grassroots pro-democracy group led by a Republican former state senator is trying to build trust in elections by hosting forums in small towns throughout Wisconsin

Kim Pytleski could barely sleep the night before. She replayed the PowerPoint slides in her head, packed her notebook and took a deep breath.

The clerk from a rural Wisconsin county north of Green Bay was preparing for a public meeting to explain the election process to residents. She didn’t know who she would encounter. Would some deny the results of the last presidential election? Would the conversation get combative? Most importantly, would she get through to anyone?

They were questions Pytleski never expected to ask herself when she started the job in Oconto County more than 14 years ago. But since then, election conspiracy theories have taken root in the rural, heavily Republican county in northeastern Wisconsin. It's among large swaths of the country where distrust of voting and ballot-counting, fanned by former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, maintains a stubborn grasp.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Connie Streckenback, from Howard, a town of about 20,000 just outside Suamico, said she “saw cheating” while serving as a poll observer in the Green Bay area. For example, she said she saw over a dozen women register to vote with the same address. When she later drove by the building, she saw a single-family home.

You know what it's not your job to do as a poll observer? Driving by the addresses people register under.

Local officials offered possible explanations, such as that the women could have been roommates, but Streckenback, 59, remained convinced they could not have all lived in the same home.

“It was fraud,” she said. “Everyone was very nice, but people were acting like I was making a big deal out of nothing. ... I don’t believe the explanations.”

It is entirely possible that twelve people all have residence in the same single family home, depending on how many square feet the home is and how it is partitioned inside. It's also entirely possible that she was looking at the wrong building.

If you are a poll observer, it is your job to observe. If you see something that raises a concern, you should absolutely report that to someone who can arrange a proper investigation, where (if your concerns are shown to be valid) appropriate consequences can be applied.

Fucking idiots.

[–] dragonflyteaparty 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is the exact same story that's been told for years about immigrants to justify racism. "These twelve kids list the same address as their house and the teacher drove by the address to find that no house existed. These kids are brown and must be illegal immigrants and are taking away from my children!"

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