Bannon And RNC Rally Cultists To “Challenge Any Vote”

The Washington Post reports:

In Michigan, a right-wing group announced it had launched “Operation Overwatch” to hunt down election-related malfeasance, issuing a press release that repeated the warning “We are watching” 10 times.

Supporters of former president Donald Trump who falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen have summoned a swarm of poll watchers and workers in battleground states to spot potential fraud this year. It is a call to action that could subject voting results around the country to an unprecedented level of suspicion and unfounded doubt.

“We’re going to be there and enforce those rules, and we’ll challenge any vote, any ballot, and you’re going to have to live with it, OK?” one-time Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon said on a recent episode of his podcast.

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Pro-Trump Republicans court election volunteers to ‘challenge any vote’ https://t.co/2XTwSltahc

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“I think what you’re setting up for is Republicans to say our people were excluded, ballots were counted that shouldn’t have been counted, challenges were not acknowledged that should have been acknowledged,” Democratic election attorney Marc Elias said.https://t.co/10a9ssHJrU

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 25, 2022

The Republican National Committee and its allies say they have staged thousands of training sessions around the country on how to monitor voting and lodge complaints about next month’s midterm elections. https://t.co/3bG7NhSFZE

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) October 25, 2022