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" (Optional video accompaniment to this blog post...)      My guess is that there are a couple thousand of these kind of scams being prepared in various states and completely under the radar. We&amp;#039;re not going to know that many of them even existed until they get put into play next Tuesday. I have been telling people for months that a lot of these &amp;quot;citizen activist&amp;quot; poll-watchers \u2014 and keep an eye on them, because one of them may be the next William Rehnquist \u2014 are sucking around to get dough-popped by some other citizen who just wanted to come in an vote without some piece of Velveeta with a clipboard horning in and making a pest of himself. Then, of course, Fox News will have the &amp;quot;DEMOCRAT THUGS TAKE OVER POLLING PLACE WITH VIOLENT UPRISING&amp;quot; headline of its dreams. Remember, two black guys in berets once stood outside a polling place, in front of a woman chatting away on her cellphone who didn&amp;#039;t seem to notice them at all, and these people have turned that into the Newark Riots for the past two years. Imagine what they can do if actual punches are thrown. The only solution is to be smarter than they are. The only solution is to be more than they are. The only solution is to know your rights and to assert them confidently and politely. Bear in mind, most of the people who have attended Nuisance Boot Camps like the one described in the ThinkProgress report generally know precisely how far they can take things without breaking the law. The people trying to vote have to be just as well-informed. And the most heartbreaking part of the story? Well, it&amp;#039;s got to be this: As Kristina Sesek, Romney&amp;#039;s legal counsel who just graduated from Marquette Law School last year, explained, &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re going to have you sign in this election cycle as a &amp;#039;concerned citizen.&amp;#039; We&amp;#039;re just trying to alleviate some of the animosity of being a Republican observer up front.&amp;quot; Even if that sentence tracked grammatically, it would still make me sad. CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE AND ONGOING COVERAGE OF VOTING RIGHTS IN 2012 &amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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