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The Guardian - US
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Fabiola Cineas

Meet the volunteers who will observe Trump’s election monitors during the midterms

A man reads a
A man reads an informational voting rights flyer while attending a non-partisan election observer training in a church after a No Kings march on 17 October 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images

Stevie Lyn is angry at what she’s seen in her Phoenix, Arizona, neighborhood over the past year. Since US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began conducting raids all across the city, her Latino neighbors on the west side have had to hide in their homes, too scared to grocery shop, work and vote. That’s why she volunteered to become a poll observer.

“I had to take the anger, because it was eating me alive, and direct it towards a constructive activity,” she said.

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