Experts are warning local officials that conspiracy believers and right-wing extremists are likely to try and disrupt the midterm elections on Tuesday.
in which the audience is unlikely to receive or credit contradictory information from those outlets.
It’s within this media bubble that intelligence analysts, journalists and voting rights groups are looking for evidence that extremists are plotting to sow chaos on Election Day.
“Over past few weeks and months, Bannon is using his platform as an organizing hub for dozens of election denial groups that are recruiting volunteers to participate in the election process, both externally and also has through government positions such as poll workers and watchers,” Peltz said in an interview withBannon’s fans and other right-wing audiences are explicitly being called to challenge the vote in Democratic strongholds, Peltz added.
Various state laws govern what designated “poll watchers” are allowed to do inside the polls, including challenge a voter’s ballot. Even if your qualification to vote is challenged by a “watcher” or observer at the polls on Election Day, voting rights groups say
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