House Republicans Dispel Democrats’ Lie Smearing GOP Poll Watchers As Threats To Democracy

Witnesses at the House Republicans commission hearing on Thursday emphasized the significance of poll watchers to elections and refuted Democrats’ false accusations that they pose a danger to democracy.

According to Florida GOP Rep. Laurel Lee and the Subcommittee on Elections,” Election study offers an impartial viewpoint of the vote management process, to convince voters of its integrity, or sign issues for correction.” We applaud the numerous state and local election officials and poll watchers across the nation who worked hard in 2022 to make this important election integrity process work appropriately.” It’s easy: A fresh election system includes significant election observer access.”

Conservative groups across the nation made it a priority to involve regular citizens in the electoral process after tainting the 2020 presidential election with mass mail-in( and unsupervised ) balloting and hundreds of millions of” Zuckbucks” pouring into government election offices. In order to” help deliver the election transparency that voters deserve” before the 2022 midterm elections, organizations like the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) enlisted more than 70,000 poll watchers and poll workers as a result of this nationwide initiative.

Democrats were furious despite the fact that Americans were perfectly legitimate and lawful in overseeing election administration. Left-wing protesters posing as” editors” published piece after piece warning that Democrat” election creationists” were planning to destroy national election districts on Election Day and scare voters in the weeks leading up to the 2022 election. Like the majority of other manufactured marketing stories, the story previously came to pass.

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Several witnesses argued against these fabrications during Tuesday’s House hear by highlighting the significance of voter election study.

” Poll monitors are an essential component of almost every state’s election rules.” However, Lynn Taylor, chairman of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, asserted that the false claim that voter poll watchers are unnecessary or even a danger to democracy has been relentlessly promoted by the media, the present administration, and political nonprofit organizations. ” Observers of voter polls play a crucial role in safeguarding our nation, which is the truth and reality of the matter.”

Similar views were expressed by Josh Findlay, the national director of election integrity for the RNC, who elaborated on the organization’s efforts to boost voter participation in the polling system prior to the 2022 midterm elections.

In reference to the RNC’s election integrity sector, Findlay said,” We created an organized program aimed at making it easier to ballot and harder to steal.” ” Once we constructed this framework, we discovered that many Americans wanted to participate in the process by becoming surveys observers.” The RNC screened potential volunteers, and we prepared those who were chosen to serve as poll observers after passing the screening system.

Democratic volunteers received materials outlining the RNC’s” principles watching principles” during poll observer trainings, according to Findlay. Among them were instructions to” do not connect with voters ,”” be respectful and courteous to other individuals and election officials ,” and” don’t destroy, hinder, or tamper with the ballot process.”

House Democrats, as expected, used the audience to rant about their party’s tired talking points. Terri Sewell, a ranking member of the committees and an Alabama Democrat representative, used her allotted time to question witnesses about whether they thought the 2020 and 2022 votes were” fair and secure” in addition to promoting the” election people are under battle” story used by legacy media. The similar” gotcha” strategy was used by New York Democrat Rep. Joe Morelle when he asked testimony if they thought” Joe Biden won the 2020 vote.”

Shawn Fleetwood is a people author for The Federalist and an undergraduate of Mary Washington University. Additionally, he writes say glad for Convention of States Action, and his work has appeared in a number of publications, including Conservative Review, RealClearPolitics. Follow him @ ShawnFleetwood on Twitter.