The husband of a GOP nominee for Minnesota's top election post was heard on a recording calling for off-duty officers to form a 'SWAT team' to police poll workers.
, are recruiting off-duty law enforcement and ex-military personnel to serve as poll watchers.
Cassondra Knudson, the spokesperson for incumbent Secretary of State Steve Simon, told ABC News that Minnesota law does not allow law enforcement to be situated in a polling place for any purpose other than responding to a call for assistance."We're working in coordination with the [Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension] to ensure law enforcement know their role on Election Day," Knudson said.
In addition, said Morales-Doyle, "There's a history of problems with intimidation by poll watchers in this country -- specifically a history of efforts to use off-duty law enforcement and poll watchers to accomplish racially discriminatory intimidation, so it gives me concern when you see that kind of recruitment."
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