Lara Trump Boasts RNC Will Have ‘People Who Can Physically Handle Ballots’ on Election Day

Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump said the organization will have poll watchers who “physically handle ballots” at polling stations on election day.

Her father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, is the presumptive GOP nominee. The Trumps have falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged against the ex-president, who previously alleged mail-in voting was rife with fraud, though he is now encouraging Republicans to do so.

Lara Trump has also urged Republicans to expand how they vote, including mail-in voting and early voting. She reiterated her call during a Tuesday appearance on Newsmax, where she boasted of the RNC’s operation.

“Obviously, we’ve been working really hard,” she told host Eric Bolling. “I think the most recent thing to report is that we are working hard on election integrity, and we just announced last week that we have 100,000 committed people who are going to be trained as poll workers. So, Eric, leading up to this election I think we can all see the most important thing aside from getting out the vote is protecting that vote.”

She then said the RNC will have operatives at precincts handling ballots.

“We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers – people standing in polling locations – but people who can physically handle the ballots.”

“I wanna hear this,” Bolling interrupted. “So, they will be stationed inside polling places? I didn’t even know you could do that. Tell us about it.”

Trump responded:

So, there was a moratorium for about 40 years on the RNC actually training people to work in these polling locations and the tabulation centers where the mail-in ballots come in. And last year, the judge who implemented that passed away. So, that was lifted, and that gives us a great ability as we head into what I assume everyone understands is the most important election of our lifetime. So we have this ability. These are volunteers, most of these people.

It appears she was referring to the lifting of a consent decree by a federal judge six years ago.

“The decree, which dated to 1982, arose from a Democratic National Committee lawsuit charging the RNC with seeking to discourage African-Americans from voting through targeted mailings warning about penalties for violating election laws and by posting armed, off-duty law enforcement officers at the polls in minority neighborhoods,” Politico stated in 2018.

Watch above via Newsmax.

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