The GOP Is Recruiting an “Army” to Monitor the Vote – Mother Jones

"Recent history offers proof: In 2020, mostly white Republican poll watchers—including five activists linked to the Trump campaign—heckled mostly Black election workers in Detroit and spread disproven rumors of fraud, chanting "stop the count," as NBC News recently investigated. A recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that more than a quarter of Republicans—compared with 14 percent of independents and 12 percent of Democrats—believe poll watchers should be armed. And nearly a fifth of Republicans surveyed said that if Trump loses, he should contest the results and do "whatever it takes" to assume the presidency—compared with 12 percent of Democrats saying the same of Harris..."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/gop-rnc-poll-watchers-republican-election-army/

plans to disrupt voting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFBTtDTFaLs

GOP to step up 2022 poll watching efforts in Michigan and across US

…Mark Brewer, a former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party who specializes in election law, said Findlay is correct that many Republican poll watchers in Michigan "had no idea what they were doing." They do need better training, he said. But under the federal consent order, "what they were hampered from doing was harassing Black voters," Brewer said...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/25/republican-poll-watching-election-integrity-mackinac/5864524001/

Raphael Warnock’s plan to save voting rights in Georgia, explained - Vox

…GOP lawmakers in some states, including Texas, are pushing legislation making it harder for election workers to remove partisan observers who disrupt an election. Warnock's bill would subject the worst-behaved election observers to criminal charges...

https://www.vox.com/22616752/raphael-warnock-georgia-sb202-voter-suppresion-voting-rights-supreme-court-atlanta-fulton-county