*Interesting read*
Voters wait in line at the Franconia Governmental Center on October 22, 2020, in Alexandria, Virginia. | Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Some concerns around poll watching don’t have to do with the people designated to be inside voting sites.
“I’m urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully because that’s what has to happen,” President Donald Trump said during the first presidential debate last month. “I am urging them to do it.”
To facilitate that, the Trump campaign has launched Army for Trump, an effort to mobilize tens of thousands of volunteers for get-out-the-vote efforts, including poll watching. A Trump campaign spokesperson told Vox that it hopes to fill 40,000 poll-watching shifts, and expects to exceed their goal of recruiting 50,000 volunteer poll watchers.
This isn’t unique to the Trump campaign; the Biden campaign is also recruiting tens of
