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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: Mid-Terms Week: NJ Voter Intimidation (1981)
Description: In the run-up to the November election, we’re doing a number of episodes that may help you track and process the current news. This week, it’s Mid-Terms week, looking at a few of our favorite mid-term elections that planted historical seeds for this year’s contest.
Today, we look at an incident in 1981, where GOP-backed forces intimidated Black and Latino voters on Election Day as part of a ‘ballot security task force.” Some of the same tactics are popping up around the country in this year’s mid-term, and have throughout US history.
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