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Absolute disgrace. election materials and election nearing inside the polling place are prohibited by state law. this can been interpreted as trying to influence voters inside the polling place. also in philadelphia, one member of the new black panthers party was back. in 2008, another carried a nightstick. but democratic poll watcher stood silently as we tried to get him to talk. >> have you been around a lot today? [ no response ] what is your purpose of being here? >> one election protection ...

>> i would take that poll with a grain of salt. they had romney up six now theyve closed it up to romney just one. that approval rating at 52% has to be encouraging. theres been for a while this gap between the national polls and the state polls, where it looked like the president had an electoral college lead but in the popular vote was trailing 20 mitt romney. now the two sets of polls have converged so it does like the president has a slight lead and at the state level. the hope was that the ...

Rating of 52. there have been times when the approval number has not had a 5 as a first digit. that is more worrying, i would think. >> i would take that poll with a grain of salt. they had romney up six now theyve closed it up to romney just one. that approval rating at 52% has to be encouraging. theres been for a while this gap between the national polls and the state polls, where it looked like the president had an electoral college lead but in the popular vote was trailing 20 mitt romney. no...

For a group women for liberty. making sure there are no violations of election law. as for the official observers the department of justice monitoring 23 states with 780 observers. perhaps the best known private group is true to vote, houston based organization it wants to ensure an honest election. they are engaged in intimidation and voter suppression but the founder told us they want to protect voter integrity. >> you might see instances where proper identification isnt prevented or asked for...

A little while. >> thats exactly right. the information that is on that -- regarding that persons voting has to be verified by local election officials. what that means is that the persons vote is called into question because maybe they showed up at the wrong precinct or maybe they didnt have proper i.d. or maybe a poll watcher said something is going on. i can tell you, whether its mickey mouse going in and voting under the name of someone who died 30 days ago. >> rick: or adolph hitler. >> it ...

Bring warm clothes, bring water, and keep in touch. >> and the law protects you. >> yes, it does. >> karen, its not just voter deception, also voter intimidation because we learned this week that a wisconsin venture capitalist, a man who has given money to dick armeys freedom works is behind billboards in poor areas of ohio and wisconsin warning residents they could be arrest fd they commit voter fraud. why would he be doing that? >> i cant imagine. yet here we have been hearing all these intere...

Wisconsinites in this situation who romney are encouraging poll watchers to say are ineligible voters. >> who was the woman on the tape we played? her name is christina. we have her linkedin page. republican party of wisconsin. who is she? >> a 2011 graduate of marquette law school, legal counsel for romney party in the state of wisconsin. appears shes been conducting these poll watcher trainings across the state in places like racine and green bay. theyll fan out on election day, even though th...

Here tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> scott, what can you tell us about your reporting? anything from the campaign? >> think progress obtained this document that is being used in romney poll watcher trainings around the state. we identified as many as 17 such trainings that occurred in the last month. not only are they being instrucked to sign in at the polls as a concerned citizen rather than mentioned -- or disclose any affiliation with the romney campaign or the republican party, theyre a...

They are doing that is growing. its this. true the vote. they call it an anti-voter fraud. you can see theyre recruiting, right? you can donate, volunteer. need voter id, do you? true the votes motto is equipping citizens to take a stand for free and fair elections. we got a first like after they were founded no to 12 in houston. >> the county attorney says its received numerous complaints about overzealous poll watchers and heavily minority locations which a poll watcher said he was recruited b...