Transcript of Vote Watch: The fight over election integrity in North Carolina

We've had a lot of reports there of people feeling intimidated.

The people huddled at this table are on the front line in the fight over election integrity.

They were chanting, Don't vote for the Black, be a bitch.

Over the past two weeks, volunteers with the non-partisan organization, Forward Justice, have been fielding calls from anxious voters in Battleground, North Carolina. Hello. This caller says she tried to help an elderly voter who could not read, and that an election worker questioned her disability. She burst out into tears.

She was a nervous wreck.

Attorney Kat Robles says they've investigated more than 200 reports and sent them to local elections offices to find solutions. What are you most concerned about?

I mean, I think just really the volume of complaints.

Anxiety so widespread, the Harris campaign has voter protection experts working across 29 state field offices. How's your conversation with others going? Like Director David Adelea.

They are trying to sow doubt about this election. So when post-election certification comes up, we'll have eyes and ears at these meetings.

And so will Republicans. Jim Womack leads the Lee County Republicans and the North Carolina election integrity team. We'll print a bunch of them. A group of more than 2,000 activists, many of whom doubt the results of the 2020 election and are poll watching and building spreadsheets of, quote, suspicious voters.

We are concerned that we have to monitor the election system to prevent any cheating from occurring.

Last week, a video of one of Womack's election integrity meetings leaked to CBS News.

You were recently seen saying that Hispanic-sounding last names were among the criteria used to identify suspicious voters. Why did you say that?

Okay, well, first off, the video was pirated from a training conversation. And what's missing in the excerpt is the fact that I said, Missing the required information recently registered and not providing a photo ID at the election.

But those are things that could apply to people of all backgrounds. That's right. Why mention Hispanic people?

Because the conversation was about the illegal immigrants that had come into the country, and the vast majority were being Hispanic. But that's not the only criteria.

Community organizer Eliana Santean says WOMAC confronted some of her Spanish-speaking team members, handing out water and non-partisan flyers at the polls on Friday, telling them they had to leave.

I think it sends the message we've been hearing, We don't belong here. Why are we here? English only.

Womack told NBC News they were mistaken and attempting to goad me into a confrontation and acting like polling officials. In the meantime, he says his movement gains dozens of new volunteers every day.

So it's not going anywhere.

Not going anywhere. It grows continuously.

Antonia Hilton, NBC News, Sanford, North Carolina.

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