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no bull and the aftermath.

I would say my biggest concern is that mix of people who think they're protecting their own

right combined with voter intimidation, that people who have a genuine belief that their

right to vote is being taken away and they're going to show up at the polls and exercise

that right, but that might mean coming armed.

It also might mean trying to intimidate the people they believe are fake voters who are

voting in the million.

I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast November 2nd, 2020.

Election Day is tomorrow and we're all hoping for a peaceful election day but some people

are worried about violence at the polls.

Two of them are Dan Biman and Colin Clark.

Biman as listeners know is a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East policy at Brookings.

He's also the foreign policy editor of LawFair and of course a professor at Georgetown University.

Colin Clark is a senior research fellow at the Siphon Center and assistant teaching

professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Together they have written on the Brookings Fixed Gov blog why the risk of election violence

is high.

It's an alarming piece, brief and full of facts that we probably don't want to think

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