It gets much worse. Some of those "50,000 Republican volunteers" could be armed former police and sheriffs:
In 1981, New Jersey Republicans hired county deputy sheriffs and local police outfitted with revolvers, two-way radios and armbands reading, “National Ballot Security Task Force” to patrol majority Black and Latinx precincts in the state. A New Jersey voter who was turned away from a polling place by a task force member sued, resulting in a 1982 consent decree barring the party from intimidating voters of color and deputizing off-duty police as poll watchers.
The 2020 presidential election will be the first in nearly 40 years when the Republican National Committee (RNC) won’t be bound by the terms of the 1982 decree. The RNC already is spending millions on a renewed voter suppression scheme involving thousands of poll observers targeting predominantly Black precincts in Philadelphia, for instance, where the Trump campaign is legally challenging not only the state’s mail-in ballot procedures but also a state statute that places limits on who may serve as a poll watcher.
FROM:
Trump’s Federal Police Surge Could Provoke an Election Day Constitutional Crisis
We don't need to worry much about anti-government extremist sheriffs in Chester County Pa now that Sheriff Carolyn "Bunny" Welsh is gone.
"The Oath Keepers, which claims tens of thousands of present and former law enforcement officials and military veterans as members, is one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the U.S. today. While it claims only to be defending the Constitution, the entire organization is based on a set of baseless conspiracy theories about the federal government working to destroy the liberties of Americans."
OATH KEEPER LIBERTY RIDER MICHAEL MARESCO WITH CHESTER COUNTY SHERIFF CAROLYN WELSH:
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