north carolina. these are parallel efforts, right? what the republicans got caught for in 1981 was organizing these supposed poll watching intimidation schemes, specifically in minority-heavy areas. what's that list look like to you for 2016? right. they only did it in new jersey in 1981, now they're all over the map. but you see the theme there. also a key element of the intimidation back in the day that they got caught for was that they used off-duty law enforcement. that helped both in terms of -- you know, these intimidating ballot security task force personnel having firearms. they're off-duty cops, off-duty sheriff sheriffs. they had firearms. that added a quasiofficial character to it. random citizens can still be intimidating on their own whether or not they're armed. but when you get law enforcement to do it, that's like the gold

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