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no_hypocrisy

(53,744 posts) Wed Nov 5, 2025, 08:47 AM Nov 5

Federal Election Monitors in Passaic County, NJ

Just to refresh your memories, I'm a poll worker in a small town in Passaic County, NJ. New Jersey Republicans asked Pam Bondi's DOJ to send "monitors" to our county, and only our county, as unfounded suspicions of shenanigans were circulated.

I was too whipped last night after being a poll worker for 15+ hours to give you an update, so here it is:

No monitors in my town. Not in the polling places. Not 100 feet away on the sidewalks. We had a steady stream of voters from the town: Hispanics, Latinos, Mexicans, Muslims, etc. And everyone had a chance to vote.

And no monitors in the county seat where the Board of Elections is located. Meaning if there were any monitors, they didn't interfere or disrupt the official counting of mail-in ballots and provisional ballots and the voting tabulations on the machines.

If anything, it was entirely anticlimactic. Not that I'm complaining. We were expecting ICE to be on the sidewalks with the monitors, detaining and arresting our resident voters. But it didn't happen.

What happened in California where the DOJ elections monitors were also sent?

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Federal Election Monitors in Passaic County, NJ (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Nov 5 OP

Anticlimactic is the best 😊👋 enough Nov 5 #1

"Scare tactic" also is appropriate. gab13by13 Nov 5 #2

Thank you for the report LetMyPeopleVote Nov 5 #3

Glad it went smoothly. Thanks for your work! Liberal In Texas Nov 5 #4

Wait for it.......tRump will cry about crooked elections. multigraincracker Nov 5 #5

Here in Calif., have not yet heard of issues. I /we / many peeps drop off at blue ballot boxes or mail them in. Parking Exp Nov 5 #6

Here in Ohio I asked about poll watchers Bluejeans Nov 5 #7

enough

(13,667 posts)

1. Anticlimactic is the best 😊👋

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 08:58 AM

Nov 5

gab13by13

(30,624 posts)

2. "Scare tactic" also is appropriate.

Reply to enough (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 09:02 AM

Nov 5

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,486 posts)

3. Thank you for the report

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 09:33 AM

Nov 5

Thank you for being a poll worker. I have been an election judge (including as the head election judge for a couple of GOP primaries as a favor to the county election administrator) several times. It is a long and tiring job

Liberal In Texas

(15,806 posts)

4. Glad it went smoothly. Thanks for your work!

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 09:39 AM

Nov 5

The repugs like to intimidate voters into not coming out. Starting the election monitor stories just another one of their propaganda memes. The threat is as good as actually sending monitors.

multigraincracker

(36,697 posts)

5. Wait for it.......tRump will cry about crooked elections.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 11:52 AM

Nov 5

Exp

(681 posts)

6. Here in Calif., have not yet heard of issues. I /we / many peeps drop off at blue ballot boxes or mail them in. Parking

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 12:15 PM

Nov 5

at polling sites is usually a PITA.

Bluejeans

(136 posts)

7. Here in Ohio I asked about poll watchers

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 12:42 PM

Nov 5

When I was checking in at my polling station I asked in a loud voice “Where are the Republican poll watchers?” The poll workers were shocked until I followed up with “When I first voted in Ohio after 20 years in the Air Force, a Republican poll watcher challenged my right to vote saying “Who’s he? I don’t know him!” After hearing of my experience the poll workers told me there were no poll watchers and those kind of challenges are illegal in Ohio.

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