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Neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin plans to muster thousands of poll-watchers across all 50 states. His partners at the alt-right website the Right Stuff are touting plans to set up hidden cameras at polling places in Philadelphia and hand out liquor and marijuana in the citys ghetto on Election Day to induce residents to stay home. The National Socialist Movement, various factions of the Ku Klux Klan and the white nationalist American Freedom Party all are deploying members to watch polls, either informally or, they say, through the Trump campaign.
The Oath Keepers, a group of former law enforcement and military members that often shows up in public heavily armed, is advising members to go undercover and conduct intelligence-gathering at polling places, and Donald Trump ally Roger Stone is organizing his own exit polling, aiming to monitor thousands of precincts across the country.
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Energized by Trumps candidacy and alarmed by his warnings of a rigged election, white nationalist, alt-right and militia movement groups are planning to come out in full force on Tuesday, creating the potential for conflict at the close of an already turbulent campaign season.
The possibility of violence on or around Election Day is very real, said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Donald Trump has been telling his supporters for weeks and weeks and weeks now that they are about to have the election stolen from them by evil forces on behalf of the elites.
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C_U_L8R
(45,031 posts)Either way, go ahead and goose step around our polling places in your ridiculous uniforms. Show the world who you really are - just before they cast their votes. See how that works for ya, nazis.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)It appears that they neglected to appear for those actions. Because basically they're talking turds.
I'll welcome them with open arms, if they show up at my polls in inner city Pgh.
I always love a good exhibition of "Democracy" in action.
Lithos
(26,404 posts)That is illegal intimidation..
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)if they try to limit access to the polls.
Hillary's lawyer team is on the ground in the battleground states.
We're ready here in Florida
leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)And then 10 people show up.
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)They are domestic terrorists.