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Episode 3: "The Meanest, Dirtiest, Low-Down Stuff"

Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News

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Operation Eagle Eye: The Insidious Genius of Republican Poll Watchers

Republicans would send out ordinary citizens to challenge voters at the polls. Sometimes they would wear intimidating uniforms, sometimes they would carry cameras. The Democratic National Committee obtained a memo that instructed workers to stall lions and Democratic precincts to make them go slow. In one example in 1964, Republicans hired 40 private detectives to poll watch in Baltimore.

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