🚨 Keep a watchful eye out for nefarious schemes by partisan groups to pressure people into voting against their preferences or not vote at all.
by the Georgetown institute also said such crimes are often subtle and"context-dependent," including the following behaviors at polling sites as broad examples:Confronting voters while wearing military-style or official-looking uniformsAggressively approaching voters' vehicles or writing down voters' license plate numbersHarassing voters, aggressively questioning them about their qualifications to voteAccording to the, a legal organization that aims to eliminate gun violence,...
That said, other rules may prohibit guns at polls on a case-by-case basis. For example, if elections officials are hosting a poll on school property, where federal law preemptively bans firearms, people would risk arrest if they brought a gun to vote. Nonetheless, the federal laws prohibiting voter intimidation described above make it illegal for anyone to use a gun to threaten a voter, per the Georgetown institute. It concluded:
"Even where guns are not explicitly prohibited, they may not be used to intimidate voters. Nor may armed groups of individuals patrol polling locations or otherwise engage in activities reserved for law enforcement or official state militias."State laws allow some forms of"poll watching" or"election observing" by means of which people can legally monitor the voting process at polling places and report what they see to political party leaders.
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