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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...bomb_for_racial_violence_on_election_day.html
http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...ennsylvania-polls-voters-trump-clinton-214297
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/lp/volunteer-to-be-a-trump-election-observer
A few different articles on the topic, which boil down to this... with Donald Trump actively suggesting that the US electoral system is fraudulent and rigged, and suggesting that his supporters go out and "monitor" other voters to try and prevent this supposed fraud... wtf is election day going to look like this year at the polls.
My state is open carry... I do not have a hard time at all picturing white men with long guns showing up at polling places in districts that are predominantly African American or Latino. We (Texas) are already on notice for violating a court order as regards our new voting laws which were struck down previously in the year for intentional disenfranchisement.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...les-texas-defied-court-order-on-voter-id-law/
https://www.thenation.com/article/t...ws-are-straight-out-of-the-jim-crow-playbook/
Harris County (Houston)'s clerk may even be investigated for voter intimidation as regards how far he took his remarks in regards to threatening voters who act in accordance with the court ruling rather than the now unenforcable Texas law.
This whole thing is shaping up to be a powder keg. I've not once ever worried about violence on presidential election day, but this year is different. I'm not big enough of a history buff to know if this is how things started in countries that transitioned to less democratic forms of government from more Democratic ones, but it feels that way...