Kos: Trump is hoping red shirts intimidate voters in minority communities

[Algernon Moncrieff]

Trump hopes that his red shirts will keep numbers down in districts where minorities turn out for Democrats. However, if that doesn’t work, plan B is already clear.

“Should Hillary get ‘elected’ she is immediately delegitimized,” said California RNC Committeeman Shawn Steel in an email. “The 1% of Wall Street Bankers, Clinton Machine and [mainstream media] including your employer, Politico, is part of a massive Left Wing Conspiracy to rig this election.”

If Trump’s goon squads can scare enough voters away from the polls, it’s all good. If not, then Hillary is “delegitimized” because everything was rigged.

It’s a can’t-lose plan. Except for all the losing.

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[MineralMan]

1. People should just say, "Hi, Santa," as they go in to vote.

[mysuzuki2]

15. "Santa Claus has a red suit, he's a communist.

He has long hair and a beard, must be a pacifist. And what's in that pipe he's smoking? ..."

[Cha]

2. What a weak ******* candidate he's shown us to be.. he'd

never make it in the big leagues.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. I don't think Trump

Can get them into those districts.

I'm trying to imagine and knuckle dragging swine from central nj even THINKING about driving into Newark or Camden. or Elizabeth . . .

They not only 'hate' black and hispanic people - they FEAR us. Nope - not gonna do it. And if they bring guns they are gonna wind up dead.

[elehhhhna]

4. And Texas is out. Folks will not even put up with that.

They tried in my precinct in 07. Sheriff and voters were up in their shit big-time.

[mythology]

5. Apparently none of them watched Star Trek

It never ends well for those in the red shirts.

[Cakes488]

6. hahahahhaha Star Trek has too much thoughtful dialogue for the likes of them.

Plus the deplorables would just want to kill all life forms they encounter so no they don't mix with the Trek mindset at all.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. GMTA

[workinclasszero]

7. I'm gonna wear a blue shirt

and hope some goober in a redshirt tries to impede my voting process in any way.

[Coyotl]

8. Gotta wear the blue cap too.

[workinclasszero]

10. LOL

[wildeyed]

9. This is an old-school dirty trick.

GOP has done this for years. Liberal groups in my state seem to be ready. They have been aggressively recruiting and training their own poll watchers since before the primary. Red shirts are one problem, but easy enough to identify. A bigger problem is poll workers intentionally or unintentionally disenfranchising legit voters. That can go under the radar if you don't have enough boots on the ground at the actual precincts.

[Coyotl]

11. Designed to also make the lines longer by slowing the whole process down.

Not just deter people from showing up, but also make the ones who do need to return to work simply turn away when these see the wait time.

[wildeyed]

13. Yes.

In my state they did away with straight ticket voting for that exact reason. It takes longer to fill out a ballot so lines are longer and a percentage of people will leave without voting.

The voter ID law was overturned by the courts. That obviously was designed to disenfranchise black voters, but it also took FOREVER to do the verification process (we did have it for the primary), so the secondary purpose was to gum up the works and cause long lines and confusion on election day.

[uponit7771]

14. NO really people, can anyone imagine tRump supporters in South Side Chi town or North Philly or

... South Side KC intimidating anyone?

Really

[Cakes488]

17. OH hell no...these "red shirts" will not dare step in the hood...they are going to go vote....take

a look around and leave...and they will chalk that up to poll monitoring.

[uponit7771]

18. Yeap, they'd vote in their upper middle class suburban area (tRumps demo) then get in

... their nearly new cars and go to 95th st .... look around... and not stop... no... roll through every red light they see on the way home.

[Stellar]

16. Red shirts?!

What's that supposed to mean?

[irisblue]

19. they did get killed first in the original Star Trek

but otherwise a mystery to me.
Red for Republican maybe?

[Wounded Bear]

21. Well...Mussonlini had black shirts. Hitler had brown shirts.

I guess all the good macho colors were already taken.

[brooklynite]

20. There'll be people with BLUE shirts outside the polls as well...I'll be one of them

[GulfCoast66]

22. Red is good

It hides blood which will be needed if they try to prevent Americans from voting.

I have not physically attacked anyone in over 30 years. But if someone tried to physically stop me from voting I am afraid my anger would get the best of me.

And there is no history of voter suppression in my white family. I can only imagine the rage that could engender in a person of color. But again, I have no real knowledge of that.

[eShirl]

23. Red is the new brown.

[DeminPennswoods]

24. voters are more informed than one might think

I was a judge of elections in Philadelphia when the city transitioned from the old mechanical level voting machines to new automated machines. The city put out all kinds of info about the new machines and even had machines stationed in libraries and other locations so voters could get acquainted with using them. The first election with the new machines happened to be the mayoral primary, so all the election board members were trained and ready to do some OJT with voters. I didn't think many Philadelphians would pay much attention to the outreach. Boy was I wrong. When voters came in, we offered to show them how the new machines worked, but nearly every voter told us they'd read the material or tried out the machines and knew what they were doing. It was extremely impressive. Voters really did pay attention! And the biggest problem? Just walking out of the booth through the curtain because they were so used to pulling the vote lever and having the curtain automatically open.

I think in Texas or wherever, voters will know before they even get to the poll what they need to do to vote.