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Party operatives involved in this rnc effort outlined their plan. the idea is to use rules designed to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at democratic-majority polling places. and then to back up those party workers with a quote army of party-friendly lawyers and district attorneys ready to help those groups take their challenges to court. in a power point presented at one of these meetings, by the rncs mission of electi...

New reporting, that republicans are starting earlier, this time, training teams of volunteers, and poll workers, looking before, and during the election voting process. how will that impact your line of work? >> think you for having me, and for covering this very important story. to be clear, it is important. it is not a bad thing, in and of itself, to be recruiting election workers, and poll workers. we know many organizations do it. what is problematic here, as these individuals are being fed ...

Workers hold that poll watchers wouldnt? whats the distinction between those two a poll worker and a poll watcher? >> its an opinion important distinction. poll workers are deployed by the election authorities locally, they are select and appointed and answer to their employers, their local clerks and in that regard, they must follow the procedures, theyre responsible for checking in voters, checking their identification, giving them a ballot, making sure essentially that things run smooth limit...

>> what makes this plan feel like an escalation from previous plans? to me, i guess, the supposed election integrity groups, and rnc, are not just straining poll watchers, which as you say, are supposed to be political will that carry out their work, but, actual poll workers. what kind of power stew poll workers hold, that poll watchers wouldnt? what is the distinction between those two? a worker, i dont watch her? >> its an important distinction. poll workers are implied employed by the electio...

Poll workers, we know, a lost organizations do it. what is problematic here is these individuals are being fed misinformation and potentially being prepared to interfere with the elections process themselves, as you know, as the story out of virginia illustrates. from our story, we have meetings with clerks on this issue to essentially protect the integrity of the process from any interference and also recognizing that our expectation that anyone working as an election worker or poll worker in a...

How he wants members of the state legislature to be more actively involved in elections. so if you kick up this legal dust at the grassroots level in dem precincts and you have a massive failure to certify what does that do? that potentially kicks it to the board of canvassers, potentially to the state legislature. were seeing this, they have these programs in 16 different states. we also know, bri, that they are working with a group which rudy giuliani referred to in the 2020 election as a part...

In the near future to stage another offensive elsewhere in the country and the ukrainians are trying to capitalize on that with counterswifs, john. >> matthew chance for us, thank you so much, matthew. michigan republicans reportedly recruiting poll workers as the midterms approach. how theyre working to expand their partys ins fluns when voters head to the polls next. plus georgia governor brian kemp locked in an ongoing feud with president trump but a report says kemp may be ready to patch...

Train poll workers, train them, first of all, let alone train them to contest votes. now, its important also to say here that the processes that are laid out here for contesting a vote -- >> and lets pull that up because we have a full screen of a graphic that they were using in the training of how to contest a vote. tell us about this. >> okay. so the -- i think this is the other -- there you go. so these are not abnormal. as a matter of fact, theyre completely legal. the thing thats different ...

Reportedly show michigan republicans including officials in the state party at meetings to train recruits as regular poll workers, not partisan poll watchers, poll workers, and put them in direct contact with party attorneys. the plan to make sure they have more influence in some democratic-led districts both for midterms and for the 2024 election. here is one clip "politico" obtained from a meeting in october 2021 where rnc michigan director pushes baseless claims about election fraud to promot...

Election day working so that that fraud does not happen again. if we only look at 2020, it just will happen again. >> a republican-led senate committee in michigan investigated the 2020 election there, remember, and found no proof of wide-spread election fraud. joining me now is journalist heidiieidi przybyla. weve heard about steve bannon promoting the precinct strategy, you are showing us what it would look like with new recordings you obtained in michigan. can you take us through what it woul...