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Reported at polling places in newark's north ward. republican poll watcher, some of them off-duty policemen wearing guns and arm bands were also near the polls. it was all part of the national ballot security task force set up by the republican national and state committees to guard against vote fraud. but democrats charge it was a scare campaign to intimidate voters primarily in minority neighborhoods. >> this was 1981, the new jersey governor's race that year. we reported on this monday night. this is the case where the national republican party got involved in that gubernatorial election. t...

Was going to be close that year. this group from the rnc decided they wanted to keep the vote down, so in trenton, camden, newark, they put up these big warning, warning, warning signs telling people that these voting locations would be patrolled by the ballot security task force and they brought in off-duty cops and off-duty sheriffs deputies who in many cases wore guns on their hips and these guys put on these hooptie ballot security forces arm bands which made them look quasiofficial, then they physically patrolled the voting sites in dozens of precincts that had mostly minority voters. if ...

Election. they flew in basically a goon squad of national operatives on election day and these guys flooded into minority precincts as basically vigilante poll watchers. governor's race in new jersey was going to be close that year. this group from the rnc decided they wanted to keep the vote down, so in trenton, camden, newark, they put up these big warning, warning, warning signs telling people that these voting locations would be patrolled by the ballot security task force and they brought in off-duty cops and off-duty sheriffs deputies who in many cases wore guns on their hips and these gu...

His ability to. >> i think it is credible. it is actually quite frightening for the american people. >> he is like a child. we have probably written this 500 times. steve: it's interesting. so the media goes mental. that's the headline there. there are stories in the book. i haven't read it yet. i have seen news reports who say that people who work in the west wing who they will hear the president say something and they will go we have got to think the 25th amendment where the vice president and the cabinet they essentially have a vote down in the basement. they say okay, he has got to go and ...