Voting rights advocates worry the effort will target and intimidate minority voters.
Republicans are recruiting an estimated 50,000 volunteers to act as"poll watchers" in November, part of a multimillion-dollar effort to police who votes and how.
The Trump campaign says the aim is to prevent voter fraud before it happens, despite researchers, academics and the president's own voter fraud commission all failing to find evidence that widespread fraud exists in years of searching. "We know that the targets of these actions, as we've seen in the past at our polls, are voters of color," said Barbara Arnwine, president and founder of Transformative Justice Coalition, in testimony to Congress in early June, in reference to the poll watchers.
"What we haven't seen in a long time — in decades — is large-scale efforts to try to question and challenge voters' eligibility at the polls," said Wendy Weiser, who directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law."The reports and the announcements that the RNC has been making suggest that that is part of the program that they're trying to mount.
"Everybody in this country who wants to vote and is eligible to vote, should be able to vote — once," he said to a chuckling crowd.History of intimidation and discrimination"Lifting of the consent decree allows the RNC to play by the same rules as Democrats. Now the RNC can work more closely with state parties and campaigns to do what we do best — ensure that more people vote through our unmatched field program," RNC spokesperson Mandi Merritt told NBC News.
"We fully expect that they're targeting all precincts that have students, Native Americans, Latinos, African Americans, refugee communities," she said, noting her group was seeking to counter the effort with voter hotlines and poll watchers of their own.
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