I volunteered to be a poll observer between 3 and 7pm today, so I personally will be on the lookout, as that will be part of my job.
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The reports from the field are numerous and offensive: Men accompanying their wives or girlfriends to the polls and insisting on standing there in the booth or at the polling station, hovering, lurking and making sure they don’t vote for Kamala Harris.
Men have been literally standing guard at election sites making sure their significant (?) others are not lying when they’ve promised their man “I’m voting for Trump!"
As it turns out, many of “their women” have had NO intention of voting for Trump — and when their watchful Eye (“Under His Eye”) catch them marking an “X” by Harris’ name or filling in the little oval bubble on the ballot, voices are raised, yelling ensues and election workers have to rush over to break up the dispute. Some men have had to be escorted away.
One poll worker commented: “At first when I saw the husband going into the booth with her, I thought it was kinda sweet. Then all of a sudden all hell breaks lose. She tried to vote for Kamala — and he wasn’t going to allow that!”
The law in every state is the same: ALL voting is private and secret. No one, not even your spouse, has the right to know how you vote. In fact, it’s illegal for anyone to try to discover how you have voted. And yet, in this election, MAGA men have bullied their way into the polls — and some election workers have had their hands full.