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Into Intimidation at the Polls

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Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

President Trump wants tens of thousands of poll watchers. Experts point to the past and worry it could veer into voter intimidation.

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0:00.0

The election day is less than three weeks away, but millions of Americans are already voting.

0:10.9

This week, President Donald Trump took the Twitter to urge his supporters to volunteer

0:15.9

as election poll watchers, as part of what the campaign calls the Army for Trump.

0:22.4

That echoes what he said in the first presidential debate.

0:25.1

President Trump, you've got problems.

0:26.1

I'm urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully, because that's

0:31.6

what has to happen.

0:32.6

I am urging them to do it.

0:34.7

And what he's repeated on the campaign trail.

0:36.7

Gotta be careful with those ballots.

0:38.5

Watch those ballots.

0:40.6

I don't like it.

0:41.6

You know you have a Democrat governor, you have all these Democrats watching that stuff.

0:46.1

I don't like it.

0:47.5

Earlier this year, the Republican National Committee set a goal of recruiting 50,000 poll

0:53.1

watchers across the country.

0:55.4

The RNC and Trump campaign say it's all the name of ballot security, and that these

1:00.4

monitors are necessary to combat possible voter fraud, which, by the way, is actually

1:06.0

very rare.

1:07.7

But election officials and advocates worry that these tactics could intimidate Democratic

1:12.4

voters, especially in black and brown communities.

1:16.8

And there is a ripe example in my home state of New Jersey, where once upon a time, misconduct

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