The new GOP National Ballot Security Task Force is ready to harass voters.

While the media devotes much hand wringing to Republican vulnerability in this November's election because of abortion,

virtually no attention is paid to what's been that part. in this from voting. This year it appears voter purchase, signature challenges,

in election worker intimidation are how the GOP thinks they can overcome

America's distaste for their support of criminalized abortion.

So why is there virtually no reporting on this?

Is it because there's no both sides of reporting possible

because the Democratic Party encourages

rather than discourages voting?

Is it because reporters don't think it's a big enough

story? Or could it be the Democrats aren't raising enough hell about GOP dirty

tricks to try to get the media interested.

In the run-up to New Jersey's 1981 gubernatorial election, Republicans in that state put together

what they called the National Ballot Security Task Force.

They recruited hundreds of off-duty cops and private security guards arming them with guns, walkie-talkies, and armbands that said task force. Large signs were posted that said warning this area is being patrolled by the National

Ballot Security Task Force. It is a crime to falsify or to violate

election laws. In slightly smaller print the posters reference state laws

about voter eligibility and then proclaimed in bold type $1,000 reward

for information leading to arrest and conviction of persons violating New Jersey's election

law along with a voter fraud tip line phone number.

White voters in New Jersey rarely encountered the task force.

Instead, the Vigilantes targeted majority black neighborhoods in Newark, East Orange, Bridged in Vineland, and

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