The National Socialist Movement, various factions of the Ku Klux Klan and the white nationalist American Freedom Party all are deploying members to "watch polls", either "informally" or, they say, through the Trump campaign, the Politico reported.
Neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin plans to muster thousands of poll watchers across all 50 states.
His partners at the alt-right website "the Right Stuff" are touting plans to set up hidden cameras at polling places in Philadelphia and hand out liquor and marijuana in the city's "ghetto" on Election Day to induce residents to stay home, the report said.
Energized by Republican nominee Trump's candidacy and alarmed by his warnings of a "rigged election", white nationalist, alt-right and militia movement groups are planning to come out in full force next Tuesday, creating the potential for conflict at the close of an already turbulent campaign season, the report said.
"The possibility of violence on or around Election Day is very real," Mark Potok, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, was quoted as saying.
"Donald Trump has been telling his supporters for weeks and weeks and weeks now that they are about to have the election stolen from them by evil forces on behalf of the elites," he said.
Anglin, the editor of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, was quoted as saying he had already led a "big voter registration drive" and that he was "sending an army of Alt-Right nationalists to watch the polls".
A representative of that site was quoted as saying in an email, "We are organising poll watchers in urban areas to cut down on the most traditional type of voter fraud. We also will have stationary cameras hidden at polling locations in Philadelphia, to monitor anyone that comes in to vote and make sure that the same people are not voting at multiple locations.
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