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“Stand Up. We’re Going to Induct You.”
Historically, campaigns, parties and advocacy groups have enlisted volunteer #poll #watchers to observe the process and flag concerns.
In 2020, hundreds swarmed ballot-counting centers in states where the vote was close.
On social media and in unsuccessful lawsuits, Trump claimed Republican poll watchers had witnessed fraud or were denied the chance to observe, fueling conspiracy theories that the contest had been stolen from him.
But poll watchers can only look and, in some states, raise challenges.
#Poll #workers, on the other hand, are paid to help to physically administer the election.
As temporary government employees, they may register voters, check identification, issue ballots and assist with equipment.
In Georgia and Arizona this year, they’ll also help hand-count ballots or the envelopes for absentee ballots returned on Election Day.
That direct access to the voting is exactly what the activists are promising.
In May, Wallnau brought his Courage Tour to a massive white tent an hour outside Detroit.
He moved among the crowd, clasping his arms around believers as they swayed together to worship music.
Later that day, he summoned them to their feet as he issued a holy assignment: to serve as poll workers.
“Who here is bothered about the election integrity issue?”
Wallnau asked.
“Who is interested in obeying God, election integrity and getting paid to do it? All right, stand up. We’re going to induct you.”
Dozens in the crowd stood, heads bowed and arms raised
Donald Trump's campaign,
lacking the on-the-ground muscle to match Kamala Harris' team,
has been rolling out a strategy to target swing-state voters who've shown interest in Trump but often don't vote.
Trump campaign training materials obtained by Axios offer an inside look into the strategy the ex-president's team is betting on
to turn out voters in Pennsylvania and at least six other key states.
The big picture:
The materials describe the 2020 Trump campaign's reach-out efforts as "inefficient,"
and emphasize the campaign's priorities of reaching more "quality" contacts in its race to the Nov. 5 election.
Trump's team is outgunned in sheer resources:
The campaign says it has about 27,000 top volunteers on the ground nationwide,
and "hundreds of thousands" more in various roles in battleground states.
Harris' campaign claims to have 60,000 volunteers in Pennsylvania alone,
along with hundreds of thousands more in other key states.
Trump's campaign has focused more on developing an 
"election integrity" team of 175,000 #poll #workers and poll #watchers nationwide,
a program rooted in the ex-president's #false #claims of widespread #fraud in the 2020 election was fraudulent.
Trump's campaign, like Harris', is supported by a constellation of #outside #groups that help provide additional canvassing and voter registration.
Trump's team includes thousands of volunteers outside the campaign who make calls, mail materials and engage voters on platforms such as TikTok.
The Trump campaign's internal materials
prioritize getting to "hard-to-reach, low-propensity voters"
— those who've shown interest in Trump by attending a rally, for example,
but aren't necessarily likely to show up at the polls.
The campaign's volunteers have been given a list of 25 "unreachable" and "sometimes" voters, with a goal of visiting at least 10 in person.
As they contact and engage more unlikely voters, volunteers earn rewards.
Those include T-shirts and MAGA caps and "expedited" entry into Trump rallies, and a top prize for the most active volunteers: an invitation to a party at Mar-a-Lago or Trump's inauguration, along with being dubbed a "Trump Force Precinct Caption."
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/14/trump-swing-state-voter-targets
Axios · Trump's swing-state plan targets "sometimes" voters
