Sending law enforcement to polling locations is designed for voter intimidation rather than election security, indistinguishable from tactics used against black voters in the Jim Crow South.
Jena Griswold: “Sending law enforcement to polling locations is designed for voter intimidation rather than election security…”
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Jena Griswold criticizes President Trump's plan to send law enforcement to polling places, equating it to historical voter intimidation tactics.
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This is another thinly-veiled attempt by the Department of Justice to intimidate election officials and coerce compliance with their efforts to unlawfully inject the federal government into States’ constitutional duty to oversee elections.
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