NBC News: Trump asked supporters to watch the polls. How states are countering fears of intimidation.

10.30.2020 / By Jane C. Timm
NBC News: Trump asked supporters to watch the polls. How states are countering fears of intimidation.

Suzanne Almeida, the interim executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, said "the short answer is, we’re a little bit worried about everything." But she noted that challenged voters in Pennsylvania can get a witness to verify their identity, or vote with a provisional ballot and later prove their identity. She said she is part of a large coalition of election protection groups that will have 2,000 volunteers on the ground monitoring the polls and "roving teams" deployed to any problem areas. "We are really trying to plan for every eventuality," she said. "And hope that we need to use none of our contingency plans."

President Donald Trump’s campaign appears to be using volunteers to try to prove voter fraud while simultaneously asking courts to OK further restrictions in the key presidential battleground of Pennsylvania where Joe Biden narrowly leads, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office said Thursday. …

Suzanne Almeida, the interim executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, said “the short answer is, we’re a little bit worried about everything.”

But she noted that challenged voters in Pennsylvania can get a witness to verify their identity, or vote with a provisional ballot and later prove their identity.

She said she is part of a large coalition of election protection groups that will have 2,000 volunteers on the ground monitoring the polls and “roving teams” deployed to any problem areas.

“We are really trying to plan for every eventuality,” she said. “And hope that we need to use none of our contingency plans.”

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