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Pro-Trump Christian Group’s Dark Plans on Poll Workers Exposed

newrepublic.com Pro-Trump Christian Group’s Dark Plans on Poll Workers Exposed

A new report reveals the pro-Trump group Lions of Judah is quietly installing poll workers in swing states.

A group called “Lion of Judah,” led by self-described Republican opposition researcher Joshua Standifer, is traveling the nation to recruit Christians to “key positions of influence in government like Election Workers.”

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A group that has been given tax exempt status because they are not supposed to be involved in government should absolutely need to feel the pain of violating that social construct. It's an asshole tax
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What's dark about encouraging people to work as election workers? Shouldn't both sides be doing this?
- Read the article. These aren’t dispassionate citizens doing their civic duty, these are folks going in with a preset agenda to sow chaos.
  
  The group plans to stop what they believe will be widespread election fraud in November as “the first step on the path to victory this Fall.”
  
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  To spread the gospel during his “Courage Tour,” Standifer has traveled with Christian nationalist preachers and pro-Trump figures to sow fear about election fraud in swing states, including Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan.
  
  What's wrong with preventing election fraud? If anything, wouldn't having Conservative Christians be part of the count not reassure people that fraud isn't taking place? Or am I too British to understand
- You'd have a point if this were good faith encouragement of civic duty, but it's not, it's a surreptitious attempt to gain control over the mechanisms of power at the expense of everyone else.
- In the same speech in Wisconsin, Standifer described the strategy to train Christians as election workers as “a Trojan horse.”
  
  Really saying the quiet part out loud there.
- Any religious organization that wants to influence politics needs their Tax exempt status removed retroactively to their origin. You don't get to have a say if you're not paying.
  
  I agree. An organisation like this trying to influence politics should pay tax.
- Assuming that election workers have to have a side is peak American.

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