Teabagger Poll Watchers in GA.

[CurtEastPoint]

This AM the AJC had a story about how the TB's plan to be at the polls 'observing'.
I am hoping I'll see them tomorrow. I just want to smack their smug faces, but alas, I cannot.
What is something clever I might say to one of them?

AJC:

"We will make sure people are qualified and eligible to vote," said Debbie Dooley, Atlanta Tea Party co-founder and a previous poll watcher. "Citizens and voters have a right to make sure the laws are followed."

Voting-rights advocates say the Election Day tea party involvement could scare off would-be voters. Among them is Edward DuBose, president of the Georgia State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

"I'm concerned whether poll watching or intimidation is their goal," DuBose said. "There are elements of the tea party that have spoken out against African-Americans, gays and President Obama. Not only should the NAACP be concerned, but all of Georgia."

Georgia tea party leaders have said there will be no confrontations or interactions with voters, least of all any form of intimidation. If something is uncovered, poll watchers will address it to election officials, and no one else.

"It's just observing," said Michael Williams of Cobb County's Georgia Tea Party. "It's not meant to be intrusive."

Poll watching is allowed in Georgia and elsewhere, but not just anyone can assume this role. People representing groups such as the NAACP and League of Women Voters are required to fill out government paperwork to gain this right or be appointed by political parties or specific candidates, which is spelled out by state law.

Poll watchers can enter a voting location to observe, but are prohibited from talking to voters, checking voter lists or using photographic or recording devices. They are furnished a badge that identifies them as a poll watcher. If they interfere with voters, election officials can remove them.

[StandingInLeftField]

1. I grew up in College Park.

Should be interesting tomorrow. Let us know how voting goes.

[AspenRose]

2. Who watches the poll watchers?

[nykym]

6. You & I

and the voting public. There are strict rules for being a poll watcher. Look them up for your state and when you go to vote be observant of the poll watchers. If you see them speaking to a voter, recording whether audio or video, report them to the Election people.

[Webster Green]

7. I do.

In my precinct, I'm responsible to make sure they don't interfere with voting.

Not many teabaggers around here though. I've never had any observers of any stripe show up at a precinct I'm running.

[DirkGently]

3. Meet the new Voter Intimidation. Same as the old Voter Intimidation.

[Brewman_Jax]

4. Teabaggers just watching?

I doubt that. I wonder where the teabaggers will be "watching", I don't think that they'll be in N. Fulton. :eyes:

[CurtEastPoint]

5. LOL! No. I'm in S. Fulton and I KNOW they will be here.

[Brewman_Jax]

9. No doubt

I'm sure that they'll be hanging around Gwinnett Co. and other places where "those people" are in numbers.

[louis-t]

8. What makes a teabagger qualified to 'watch' ANYTHING?

Do they even know what they're 'watching' for? Will they just be yammering at the election officials hoping to make anything stick?