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The polling places are being conducted correctly. >> that's part of this that i've been trying to get a handle on. i'm glad to hear you explain it that way, because on the one hand what the republican party got nailed for in the '80s was comic book egregious, but i haven't really understood what -- i'm assuming the republican party doesn't want to do the arm bands and off-duty guns, i'm assuming, although we could -- no, we won't make that argument. let's assume that the republican party doesn't. what does the republican party want to do that's not racist, that's not egregious, that's not supp...

Places are being handled correctly. >> i'm glad to hear you explain it that way. because what the republican party got nailed for in the '80s was comic book egregious. i assume they don't want to do the off-duty cops and arm bands like in trenton again. let's assume, what does the republican party want to do that's not racist, that's not egregious, that's not oppressive? why do they feel so constrained? actual activities by any rnc personnel. so there's a difference between overheated political rhetoric and the actual activities. >> do we have to wait until election day to see those activities...

Prezpr precincts in 1981. many of them wore guns, they wore these ballot security task force arm bands and they patrolled voting sites in dozens of precincts that had mostly minority voters. and the republicans did very, very, very narrowly win that governor's race in new jersey that year. but the democratic party sued over this ballot security task force thing. and the democrats won that case. and the republicans signed on to a consent decree because of it. and now, 35 years later, the republican party is still trying to get out from under the legal restrictions that were put on them because ...

Reputationaly, which is why the democrats or pursuing this consent decree, but also really politically. and so all in all, this is a moment that the republican national committee wants to get beyond so that it can engage with its state parties in the permissible looking at the elections. an important component of being sure that the voters understand that the election is fair and is not rigged and the practices in the polling places are being conducted correctly. >> that's part of this that i've been trying to get a handle on. i'm glad to hear you explain it that way, because on the one hand w...

An important component of being sure that the voters understand that the election is fair and is not rigged and the practices in the polling places are being conducted correctly. >> that's part of this that i've been trying to get a handle on. i'm glad to hear you explain it that way, because on the one hand what the republican party got nailed for in the '80s was comic book egregious, but i haven't really understood what -- i'm assuming the republican party doesn't want to do the arm bands and off-duty guns, i'm assuming, although we could -- no, we won't make that argument. let's assume that...