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Is Trump’s ‘voter fraud’ rhetoric coded racism?

Residents voted on Monday at a recreation center in Tucker, Ga. It was the first day of early voting in the state. Erik S. Lesser / European Pressphoto Agency

By The Boston Globe

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WASHINGTON — Civil rights activists are warning that Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in inner cities are really a thinly veiled racist attack, and are accusing him of injecting another incendiary element into an election that is already the most negative and divisive in modern history.

On the heels of encouraging his mostly white suburban and rural supporters to monitor polls in “other communities,” especially Philadelphia, where whites are the minority, Trump on Monday sent out a series of tweets warning of election cheats.

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