Right-wing extremist groups have signaled they plan to heed the call. Extremist groups are planning actions in key states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, which has been tracking extremists on social media. Armed, far-right groups have signaled their willingness, even eagerness, to take matters into their own hands at polling places and centers of political power. “Those tactics may have worked in the Jim Crow era, but not today.”Laws ban electioneering near polling places, voter intimidationLaws in most states prohibit electioneering within buffer zones around polling places. But he cited another possibility: that extremist groups could leave their camouflage at home, put on red Make America Great Again hats, and look for sympathizers among Trump supporters.

Source: Libya Today November 03, 2020 11:26 UTC