“On election day in November, some polling places could be patrolled by off-duty police officers and veterans, according to a plan hatched by Republican operatives” theintercept.com/2020/04/11/rep…
“Using former soldiers and law enforcement as poll watchers was banned in 1981 by a judicial consent decree imposed on the Republican Party, but that ban was lifted in 2018 when a New Jersey judge declined to renew it.“
“The ban came explicitly in response to an effort by the RNC to intimidate voters in African American communities by creating a so-called Ballot Security Task Force, threatening arrest and a $1,000 fine for improper voting.”
