Veronica Roth Quotes
It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
Roth, Veronica. Divergent. Katherine Tegen Books, 2011.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Veronica Anne Roth is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her bestseller Divergent trilogy, which was subsequently filmed.