voter intimidation

Arizona Court: Armed Poll Watchers are Engaged in Free Speech, Not Voter Intimidation

by Rick Hasen

Standing around a ballot drop box wearing tactical gear and carrying a semiautomatic weapon is clearly an act of voter intimidation, says a leading scholar of voting rights. 

Trump’s Claim He’ll Send Sheriffs to Polling Places is Revealing in a Lot of Unintended Ways

The pledge to send police and military personnel to watch polling places echoes conduct that resulted in a 1981 consent decree against the Republican National Committee for voter intimidation in New Jersey. This is the first year that the RNC is not bound by the decree.