A conservative poll worker in Georgia was removed from a polling site after her recent Twitter posts surfaced, according to reports.
Laura Kronen told The Epoch Times that her removal was politically motivated because she’s politically conservative.
“I’m a conservative, I was a Trump supporter, and I think that they did not want that there,” Kronen said.
But before voting started, Kronen said that official J. Campbell O’Keeffe told her that she had been removed from her post and needed to leave the site.
“We did everything we were supposed to do. We went to our pep rally on Sunday night for the coworker people. And then we showed up this morning at 5 a.m. To begin our poll working, we opened up all the polls, we opened up all the poll pads, we did everything we’re supposed to be doing shortly before the polls were about to open,” she said.
Kronen says O’Keeffe at first couldn’t explain why she had been removed but then told her that it was over her Twitter posts in the past few days.
“He started making phone calls and phone calls, and nobody could figure out why I was being kicked out,” she said. “Finally, somebody said, ‘It’s because of a tweet she put this morning.’”
On Nov. 3, Kronen made a tweet expressing her concern about election integrity and advising her followers to remain vigilant during the midterms.
“The only explanation for why the Democrats and all of social media is pushing the ‘election results will be delayed for a few days’ story is because they have to figure out ways to cheat,” her post read. “Stay alert! Report everything you see! Take videos of anything that you think might be shady.”
Kronen told the news outlet that she was just trying to make sure elections were fair for both parties.
“Isn’t that what we’re doing here? Like, we’re going to make sure there’s a free and fair election,” she said. “And they said it didn’t matter. ‘You are not allowed.’”
She also noted that other poll workers didn’t seem bothered by her expulsion.
“I’m pretty certain by the reaction from the people that they did not share my political beliefs,” Kronen said. “They just all stared and stood back. And they didn’t say a word, not a word to me or my child.”
