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Republican state legislators, including dozens tied to the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), are pushing to loosen restrictions on poll watching, which has historically been aimed at preventing Black Americans from voting.
These poll watching initiatives are part of a broader movement to suppress voting in the wake of a presidential election and violent insurrection that didn t achieve what these lawmakers wanted.
The Republican Party s use of poll watching as an intimidation tactic has a particularly notorious history, and was essentially prohibited in 1982 when a federal judge brokered a consent decree between the Republican and Democratic national committees barring the GOP from engaging in ballot security and voter intimidation efforts without prior judicial approval. Before then, the RNC had hired armed, off-duty police officers to patrol majority-minority precincts wearing National Ballot Security Task Force armbands.
An obscure Texas security company helped persuade Americans that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump
By Emma Brown, Aaron C. Davis, Jon Swaine and Josh Dawsey The Washington Post,Updated May 9, 2021, 9:52 p.m.
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Russell Ramsland delivered presentations on electronic voting in this airplane hangar in Addison, Texas, where the company Allied Security Operations Group has offices.Aaron Davis/The Washington Post
ADDISON, Texas - Key elements of the baseless assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump took shape in an airplane hangar here two years earlier, promoted by a Republican businessman who has sold many things, from Tex-Mex food in London to a wellness technology that beams light into the human bloodstream.
An obscure Texas security company helped persuade many Americans that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump Author: Emma Brown, Aaron C. Davis, Jon Swaine, Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post Updated: 5 days ago Published 5 days ago
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Print article ADDISON, Texas - Key elements of the baseless assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump took shape in an airplane hangar here two years earlier, promoted by a Republican businessman who has sold many things, from Tex-Mex food in London to a wellness technology that beams light into the human bloodstream. At meetings beginning late in 2018, as Republicans were smarting from midterm losses in Texas and across the country, Russell Ramsland and his associates delivered alarming presentations on electronic voting to a procession of conservative lawmakers, activists and donors.
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