Poll Challengers Defended by Witnesses in House Election Hearing

Election integrity activist Lynn Taylor came before Congress on March 23 “to set the record straight.”
Taylor, the president of the Virginia Institute of Public Policy, ripped into the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), nonprofit organizations, and the media for “misleading the American people for the past two years” by portraying election poll watchers as a “problem.”
“There has been a steady drumbeat of the media, the current administration, and partisan organizations advancing the false narrative that citizen poll watchers are unnecessary and even a ‘threat to democracy,’” said Taylor.
In both verbal and written sworn testimony, Taylor told the hearing of the House Subcommittee on Elections, “Before U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland defined parents attending school board meetings as ‘domestic terrorists,’” he and FBI Director Christopher Wray had already set up a national hotline to receive complaints of threats against elections officials….}