Marc Elias launches Democracy Docket - tracking GOP election fraud

[Roland99]

https://www.democracydocket.com/

Republicans are Planning a Bigger, Much More Aggressive, Much Better-Funded Voter Suppression Program in 2020
https://www.democracydocket.com/2020/03/gop-voter-suppression/

A Trump political advisor in Wisconsin was recently caught on tape bragging about the fact that “traditionally it’s always been Republicans suppressing votes in places” and advising Republicans to “start playing offense a little bit.” He alerted: “That’s what you’re going to see in 2020. It’s going to be a much bigger program, a much more aggressive program, a much better-funded program.”

Republicans are planning a “bigger,” “more aggressive,” and “much better-funded program,” because this November will be the first presidential election since 1980 that the RNC will be unencumbered by a court monitored consent decree prohibiting gross forms of voter suppression. Though voter suppression runs deep in the Republican Party, without this consent decree, the RNC can “start playing offense” and operationalize voter suppression like we haven’t seen in 40 years.

Shortly after Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the RNC formed its National Ballot Security Task Force—a group whose mission was to suppress voters, particularly minority voters. Their first target was the off-year Gubernatorial election in New Jersey. As part of its program, the RNC’s National Ballot Security Task Force engaged in illegal voter-caging―mailing sample ballots to individuals in precincts with a high percentage of minorities and then creating lists of voters to challenge based on those whose mail was returned as undeliverable. On election day, the RNC posted signs near minority precincts that read:


(CBS News)
To further the intimidation, the RNC hired off-duty sheriffs and police officers to intimidate voters by standing at polling places, with guns and police radios visible, in minority precincts. These officers wore black armbands with “National Ballot Security Task Force” printed on them.

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[True Blue American]

1. I well remember

The RNC placing Poll watchers in the Polls to challenge voters. Paid them more than the Poll Workers.

A small Precinct, all white we had one who actually questioned why she was there, even helped us.

But in the Cities it was awful! They intimidated,questioned, caused back ups in already busy Precincts.