“Who Watches the Poll Watchers?”

Dahlia Lithwick:

In an election year that has brought out the very worst in us, the mounting anxiety around the act of voting itself should hardly surprise us. Taking cues from the Republican National Committee’s decades-old playbook, Donald Trump’s campaign and his supporters are subtly pushing an agenda of voter suppression, intimidation, and harassment. If America’s new “silent majority” of Hillary Clinton voters is afraid of its own polling places, that only benefits Trump and the Republican Party. The fact that voter intimidation imperils democracy itself? A feature, not a bug.

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