trump supporters blocking the entrance to voting site.

If they’re providing escorts, bringing in extra security and moving the line, I think that tells you everything you need to know. Looking at that video of the line of supporters waving flags, I would not want to have to walk past them or around them. Nor should any voter have to navigate through or around them.

Not only were the blocking and intimidating voters, Don the con trump told them yo to it—

“Donald Trump supporters sparked fears of voter intimidation after they protested outside a polling station in Virginia as early voting took place this weekend.
Demonstrators were seen outside the Fairfax County Government Center on Saturday as the second day of early voting took place in Fairfax, Virginia.

At least two dozen supporters of the US president held “Trump - Pence” placards and waved American flags, about 100 feet from the entrance to the polling location.

The group chanted “four more years”, The New York Times reported, as voters entered a polling location that, at one point, appeared to be blocked from voters.

Voters were said to have been forced to walk around outside the centre, in order to enter, after the protesters formed a line near the entrance.

It comes within two weeks of president Trump telling his supporters to act as “poll watchers” for November’s presidential election, whilst falsely claiming that polling stations were places of fraud.

"Gotta be careful with those ballots. Watch those ballots. I don't like it,” the president said at an event in North Carolina this month. “You know, you have a Democrat governor, you have all these Democrats watching that stuff. I don't like it,"
Telling his supporters to "watch it," he told a crowd: "Be poll watchers when you go there. Watch all the thieving and stealing and robbing they do. Because this is important.”

Election officials in Fairfax acknowledged that some voters and polling staff felt intimidated by the small protest, which required an indoor waiting area to be set-up to stop protesters harassing voters.

“Citizens coming into and leaving the building did have to go by them,” Gary Scott, the general registrar of Fairfax County, said in a statement to the NYT, whilst adding that the president’s supporters did not directly block the entrance.

“Those voters who were in line outside of the building were moved inside and we continued operations. Some voters, and elections staff, did feel intimidated by the crowd and we did provide escorts past the group,” he added. “One of the escorts was the county executive.”

The US president, who trails his Democratic opponent Joe Biden in national polls, has spent months delegitimizing both mail-in ballots and in-person voting, as he claims in-advance that November’s election outcome will be “fraudulent”.
There is no basis in his claims.”

The Independent

It’s typical Gia speak, always wordplay, semantics, Uber literal out of context.

In other words, bonanza's statement is accurate (at least for you).

If this doesn’t prove Trumpsters are bullies...smh

So, dh and I just got back from waiting 2 hours in line to vote at the Fairfax County Govt Center. And the line was just as long when we left as when we joined it. Great voter turnout!

Everyone in line, working security, election workers, people who work in other offices in the Government Center were wearing masks. They had social distancing circles on the ground for the whole length of the snaking line, and people abided by it.

When we got up to the infamous plaza, there was a Democratic tent on the right and a Republican tent on the right. The workers in the Republican tent were the only people I saw today NOT WEARING MASKS. And the women who apparently was the head of the tent, walked the line, up and down, campaigning for one of the issues NOT WEARING HER MASK. So, talking very loudly - projecting - at people who all chose to wear their masks. F’ing irresponsible idiot. And no, she wasn’t disabled. She was walking up and down the loooong line in 80 degree weather wearing heels and campaigning loudly.

I am very lucky to live in Fairfax Co, because people here follow the mask mandates. It is as safe as can be to go to grocery stores because patrons follow the governor’s mandate that masks must be worn in indoor public shopping places. Everyone today chose to wear masks in line, even though 100 minutes of it was outdoors. Everyone except for the Republican campaigners who apparently believe that masks - and not wearing them - is a political statement.

The tents - both parties had one - were set up far enough from the entrance to the building to be legal. It is an interesting set up - our Govt. Center has a front plaza area that prevents cars from coming close to the entrance for security reasons. The campaign tents were set up at the edges of the plaza. 

The line was very very long - it was a 2 hour wait to vote, with only 20 minutes of it inside the building.  Everyone was spaced 6 feet apart, so it snaked around.  

My main issue was campaigning-GOP-lady walking up and down projecting/shouting at people with her unmasked spit-laden mouth. 

Never mind the FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS of the people who stated that they felt intimidated and that the trumpers made them feel that way.

Typical Gia—always trying to spin.

The article you posted with video about 1:37 SHOWS the pathway that was OCCUPIED by voters when the trump supporters pulled in. THAT is the pathway that they blocked which shows on the videos that were posted the other day! You cannot see the voters on the path because they were a bit lower behind where the supporters where standing BLOCKING the path!! I guess you truly are dense unable to comprehend a simple concept!

What is positively ironic, hypocritical at the same time is that these same people will stomp all over the Constitution if it doesn’t benefit themselves, they’ll vote for an idiotic moron because they have such blind loyalty to him and not the USA.

They think he’s like them—and he’s a failed businessman, a serial rapist sexual predator, racist, an epic liar, a draft dodger, a misogynistic, xenophobic gaslighting dumb fuck. He has no idea what the Constitution says, does not uphold it, Rips off taxpayers, ignores and violated the law, has invited and welcomed foreign intrusion our elections.

So if he’s like them as they say, they must ge those things too.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

So much this. I am so tired of many in the conservative crowd co-opting the word “patriot” and referring to themselves as “the taxpaying public” as if they and they alone work and pay taxes. I read conservative blogs and make an effort to listen to some RW talk shows and this is a very common attitude. It is false and it is insulting.

Oh, I think she can. 😳

You got trump sending federal forces to do just the thing you say you abhorr. He is terrorizing Americans. On purpose.

Trump, his press sec, his sycophants all put out false narratives every day. Outright lies. Daily,

Republicans REFUSE to even discuss sensible gun control, and children are being assaulted in what used to be a safe place.

Trump ruins people weekly, lies about them, degenerates them, lists to all sorts of social media about them (lies), and bullies them.

Black men and other indigenous people are being killed for no reason, by police who are not held accountable.

You’re quoting the Fairfax County GOP as a reference as to whether these ass bites from the Fairfax County GOP were deliberately trying to intimidate voters or not? That’s a good one.



 



If I understand this correctly, you are cherry-picking criminal behavior by people you are characterizing as Democratic voters to weaponize against all non-Trump voters. Please explain which mainstream non-Trump voters have assaulted children, ruined people, burned people’s houses down, terrorized the population, or hunted police and Trump supporters and shot them point-blank. Those are not my people, not anyone I would vote for, support, or even associate with.

Why are you trying to hang Democrats with the actions of fringe-y, violent revolutionaries? You don’t want to be associated with white supremacists (one of whom, btw, is who hunted down and killed a couple of law enforcement officers in my neck of the woods ... not any wild-eyed liberal).

Can you answer why you think it’s okay to lump together every Biden voter with a few left-wing criminals? Where were you when armed militia men invaded the Michigan statehouse and got right up in the state troopers’ faces with their guns and threats? Did it bother you when they hanged the female governor in effigy? How about when that 17yo crossed the Wisconsin state line with an assault rifle and killed a couple of protestors? I haven’t heard a peep from the right wing about that one, other than some convoluted defenses of him.

As far as “shun and exclude” goes, we all have the right to decide for ourselves when we’ve reached our limit with people who are more interested in calling themselves patriots than actually acting like patriots.

You people don’t own patriotism or the flag. They belong to all of us. I’ll be glad when at least some of you finally come to your senses and break out of this cult you’re currently in.