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Politics
Jon Skolnik

Trump's recruiting an election "army"

U.S. President Donald Trump | Judge Robert Rosenberg of the Broward County Canvassing Board uses a magnifying glass to examine a dimpled chad on a punch card ballot November 24, 2000 during a vote recount in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Getty Images/Salon

Republicans are gearing up to wage an electoral war at the polls in future elections, hiring scores of trained recruits to challenge voters in Democratic-leaning precincts and connecting them with a vast network of district attorneys who could theoretically stall election proceedings indefinitely. 

This broad-ranging campaign, reported by Politico, is primarily being organized by the Republican National Committee (RNC), which is set to host "workshops" directing prospective poll workers to a hotline for reporting voting irregularities in swing states like Michigan. The committee is also reportedly developing a website dedicated to opening a line of communication between poll workers and district attorneys on Election. 

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