No reason to think something could go wrong here. Politico:
"Trump’s political operation said Thursday that it plans to deploy more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers across battleground states to monitor — and potentially challenge — vote counting in November."
This passage is equally unsettling — and unintentionally dark-humored: "Should Trump once again attempt to overturn the election, he will already have in place tens of thousands of workers who could help with that effort."
You gotta love Politico's nonchalant, business-as-usual phrasing: help with that effort. Insurrection — now just a you wash, I'll dry affair.
The man is deeply subliterate, so I have a hard time believing he's been reading Stalin. Nevertheless: "In a statement, Trump said, 'Having the right people to count the ballots is just as important as turning out voters on Election Day.'"
But here's additional news that strongly suggests Trump's "right-counting" offensive will go the way of Pickett's Charge: "Those involved in the drafting of the program included ... RNC co-chair Lara Trump."
I'll end on a non-sarcastic note. Politico reminds us that the National Conference of State Legislatures says "partisan poll workers are allowed to monitor elections but can’t interfere in the electoral process except to report issues."
The serious side of that long-understood information is this. Most (initially) intimidating among Trump's "monitoring" skulduggery is the number 100,000. Thus in every battleground state the honest opposition must start organizing, and organizing now, a counterforce two or three times greater.
Sad it is that in American politics the term battleground states might well become literal this November. But however saddening, the honest opposition can also be proud of having never asked for this fight.
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Entered here as "Quote of the Day."
Angry crowds swarmed through Lewes brandishing clubs, swords, and guns, knocking down anyone who stood in their way; and some victims lay unconscious in the street. Many residents … retreated behind closed doors. Others scampered out of town. It was election day, 1787.
— Self-governance in Sussex County, England