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With the drop boxes, the transcript says there were issues associated with what was going on in polling places. It also states that in the mid-1980s, a federal district court judge in New Jersey entered a consent decree preventing Republicans from being poll watchers. From the mid-1980s until 2020, Republicans were reportedly not allowed to serve as poll watchers on national elections.
According to the transcript, the judge later died, and the Democrats/DNC had to renew the injunction every five to eight years. When the judge was replaced by an “Obama judge,” the DNC reportedly returned to the court to request that the consent decree remain in place, keeping Republicans from being poll watchers and from participating in the process. The Obama judge reportedly responded that the request was unconstitutional and refused to renew the consent decree and refused to renew the injunction.
The transcript then claims that 2020 was one of the first years with professional Republican poll watchers in these elections. It lists locations including Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia, saying this was the first time Republicans could really see what was happening in polling places.
The transcript concludes that this ability to observe likely indicates many “shenanigans” may have been occurring for a long time, but that there had been no Republicans present to report on them.