Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Watching The Watchers, Ctd.

The plan by various Tea Party groups to prevent voter fraud intimidate voters in today’s run-off election in the Mississippi Senate race has drawn the attention of the people in charge of the election itself.

“Observers from both the Secretary of State’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office will be in Mississippi counties on Election Day,” the offices said Monday in a joint statement providing guidance on election day.

The statement also said that “there is no authority in state law for a PAC or other outside group to place ‘election observers’ in Mississippi polling places.”

That should at least give the impression that the election is on the up and up.

One bark on “Watching The Watchers, Ctd.

  1. Interesting, no, that the same people who think that less than 80% turnout in some other country’s elections is an indication of the failure of democracy, will p!ss and moan when more of Those People show up at their local polling place than they’re expecting?

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