As voters gear up for election day, the 30,000 Minnesotans who will volunteer to work the polls are preparing too. They’re officially called election judges, and they’re the temporary employees who process voter registrations, hand out ballots and report vote totals at the end of the night.
But some are planning to do more than that.
Conservative groups that have cast doubt on America’s elections are training poll workers to gather evidence of supposed irregularities this year. And the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office says in some cases, the groups may be training poll workers to break the law.
Curtis Gilbert is with APM Reports, the investigative reporting group based at American Public Media. He has been looking into these groups, and he joined Cathy Wurzer to talk about it.
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