The Conservative Partnership Institute is training its supporters by recruiting poll watchers and election staffers and creating teams of local citizens to potentially challenge voter rolls and election officials with document requests.
It’s part of a nationwide effort for a greater presence in local election offices. A number of summits encouraging members to increase poll-watching activity and challenge voter eligibility have already taken place in Georgia.
The group has become a destination for former Trump administration aides and figures linked to the January 6 insurrection. Cleta Mitchell, who was on Trump’s legal team in 2020, recently described the group’s mission as an effort to “arm the army of patriots.”
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