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“We have to call up law enforcement,” Trump said at the speech in Altoona in August, “and we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everybody watching.” But in Pennsylvania, police and sheriffs are banned from coming within 100 feet of a polling place on Election Day, unless they’re asked by election workers or three different voters to quell a disturbance. The law, meant to prevent voter intimidation, applies to police in and out of uniform, unless they’re voting.

Trump’s vision of police watching the polls, and his vague call for supporters to “go down to certain areas and watch,” sounds a lot like an aggressive and notorious voter intimidation campaign during New Jersey’s 1981 governor’s race.
That year, Republicans challenged voters at the polls in minority precincts, and they dispatched armed, off-duty police and deputy sheriffs to patrol polling places in minority neighborhoods wearing armbands that read, “National Ballot Security Task Force.” Ever since, a federal court order has barred the Republican National Committee from organizing ballot integrity or anti-fraud efforts that target minority neighborhoods. The order doesn’t apply to candidates, but it could limit Trump, because candidates usually turn to local parties to find poll watchers.