Is Trump Urging His Gun-Toting Supporters To Break Voter Intimidation Laws?

[billh58]

Donald Trump is engaging in an unprecedented campaign of voter fraud fear-mongering. Not only is he putting Americans’ trust in the bedrock of U.S. democracy at risk, but what he has urged his supporters to do -- in stump speeches across the country -- would, if carried out, likely be a form of illegal voter intimidation.

Civil rights groups are already gearing up for an especially tense Election Day. Meanwhile, the federal government has been hobbled by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling in its ability to monitor elections in places with histories of voter intimidation. Of particular concern are states with loose open carry laws, where already, some armed Trump supporters have shown an interest in making their presence known at voting sites.

“The idea that people would be standing outside the polls with guns, or even inside the polls with guns, clearly has the potential to turn people away. There’s a long history of this,” said Deuel Ross, an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which is very active in voting rights litigation.

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Two Trump supporters in Virginia last week staged a 12-hour open carry “protest” outside a Democratic campaign office, though they denied they posed any kind of threat. If that sort of the activity is the harbinger of things to come at polling places on Election Day, it could be a violation of federal law.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/is-trump-urging-his-gun-toting-supporters-to-break-voter-intimidation-laws

"Responsible" gun owners stumping for Trump. If these asswipes are claiming that they are peacefully protesting, and are not a threat, why bring their precious guns? They have no other motive than to threaten minority voters and disrupt the voting process.

When the typical Bubba (or several of them) shows up at the polls with guns, everyone is intimidated. Voter intimidation is a violation of the law and the cops should intervene.

Monitoring polling places has absolutely nothing to do with the Second Amendment, but Trump's crazy-assed, armed "enforcers" will claim their acts are just a demonstration of Constitutional Freedom and Liberty. I call bullshit on the cowardly bullies who, like Trump, are nothing but sociopaths and domestic terrorists.

[niyad]

1. yes

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Law enforcement

is going to be very busy, I fear.

[AmericanActivist]

3. Of course he is! I bookmarked this thread about the RNC's recent reminder of

a legal decree issued against Republicans for past voter intimidation; the decree could be extended if they violate the decree this year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141602622

[billh58]

4. Thanks for adding

that link, and yes the Republicans have always played dirty politics by any means possible. The intimidation by gun is a new low even for them, and a throwback to the civil rights struggle.

[Panich52]

5. Of course he is...

His "poll watchers" won't be inside keeping tabs on whether folks get their proper opportunity to vote, they'll be outside, daring anyone who's not "their kind" to enter.