Whatever the ultimate outcome of the 2020 presidential race — as of Thursday morning, November 5, the vote-counting continues in Pennsylvania, Georgia and a few other states — President Donald Trump can say with certainty that he won Florida’s 29 electoral votes. What Trump won’tsay is that at Florida polling places, the behavior of some of his supporters was atrocious. And attorney/poll worker Jeffrey A. Kasky, in a November 4 op-edfor Florida’s Sun-Sentinel, describes some of the abuse and harassment MAGA extremists subjected him to in West Boca Raton.
“I did not sign up for this,” Kasky complains in his op-ed. “When I registered to be a poll worker, I looked at it as an active, nonpartisan way to contribute to our democracy. I thought that working the polls was essential to helping others — particularly those whose votes are often suppressed — have access to open and fully staffed polling places where they could exercise one of the foundations of our democracy by voting for president.”
According to Kasky — who has no party affiliation and is neither a Republican nor a Democrat — the actions of Trump supporters in Palm Beach County were inexcusable. Continue reading.