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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 12:36 AM Sep 2016

What Are The Chances That Trump Poll Watchers Show Up Armed?

This election is getting so hateful and incendiary you almost dread election day. In Colorado voting is by mail so that risk is less here. But in other states where there is open carry law you wonder if some poll watchers that Trump is calling on will be armed. There is that risk and such a situation could be dicey.

Each time Trump/Pence and their allies say that it is a rigged election if Trump loses increases risk. And the other possibility is that they want to scare people from voting altogether by suggesting they will be confronted. And if some voters believe that these goons might be armed they may not show up at all. It just looks like there is a strategy to suppress the voter by open intimidation like we have never seen before. We are dealing with some very dangerous people.

I am not suggesting anything but I am wondering what is up. It just seem odd that under the radar the Trump and his cronies are telling people to monitor the polls.

This election looks like it is developing into a very screwball event.

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What Are The Chances That Trump Poll Watchers Show Up Armed? (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Sep 2016 OP
Won't surprise me in the open carry States. misterhighwasted Sep 2016 #1
if it's screwballed, Trump's involved. Yes, I'm sure some will come with guns, somehwhere... n/t Divine Discontent Sep 2016 #2
It wouldn't surprise me if yuiyoshida Sep 2016 #3
Colorado Is An Open Carry State. But We Vote By Mail. So The Risk I Much Less. TheMastersNemesis Sep 2016 #4
California also has vote by mail yuiyoshida Sep 2016 #9
You call 911 on them if they do. roamer65 Sep 2016 #5
I'm gonna go vote guns or no guns fuck'em undergroundpanther Sep 2016 #6
Maybe they are concerned sarisataka Sep 2016 #7
Always assumed canetoad Sep 2016 #8
100% get the red out Sep 2016 #10
Who cares...vote with a smile. ileus Sep 2016 #11
In some area? 100% nt Are_grits_groceries Sep 2016 #12

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
3. It wouldn't surprise me if
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 01:10 AM
Sep 2016

(Kami sama) forbid, someone is shot, wounded or Killed at the poll, over a political argument. In these strange times, its very likely.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
4. Colorado Is An Open Carry State. But We Vote By Mail. So The Risk I Much Less.
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 01:13 AM
Sep 2016

We also have a progressive registration process. And we do not have restrictive voter ID laws.

sarisataka

(18,633 posts)
7. Maybe they are concerned
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 01:35 AM
Sep 2016

about those who calling them "the enemy" and saying "his supporters should be thrashed and punished severely" or "committed yo an insane asylum"...

Sadly hyperbolic hate is not unique to the right

canetoad

(17,153 posts)
8. Always assumed
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 01:36 AM
Sep 2016

that would happen after Trump called for poll "watchers". He wants intimidators not watchers.

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