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| 11/4/2008 |
Voter intimidation |
GA |
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Fulton County (Atlanta). About 20 senior citizens, many of them using wheelchairs or walkers, were turned away from the polling place at Wheat Street Towers when it opened and told to come back later, said the manager of the senior housing complex and one of the residents. A sign was posted at the entrance to the polling place, inside the complex, that voters 75 and older could vote only between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. even though voting hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. A spokesman for the Fulton County elections office said, “That is completely incorrect.” He said voters with disabilities and 75 and older are allowed to go to the front of the line between those hours but there is no limit on when they can vote.
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| 10/27/2008 |
Voter intimidation |
NM |
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Lawsuits were filed today in U.S. Federal District Court, charging New Mexico Republicans with criminal violations of the U.S. Voting Rights Act. The lawsuits stem from a series of intimidation attempts on new, minority voters in Albuquerque.
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| 4/22/2008 |
Voter intimidation |
PA |
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A constable working the Bethesda Presbyterian Church polling place was allegedly not letting supporters of Obama inside to vote and ordering those there to leave. A court order for City Ward 13, District 8 told election officials there to "refrain from discouraging or prohibiting, in any way, any elector from entering the polling place."
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| 11/6/2007 |
Voter intimidation |
GA |
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"For the past two weeks the students of Georgia Southern University in Statesboro have been the victims of challenges to their registration, threats, intimidation, and have faced police officers stationed outside and inside early polling places all because they had the nerve to want to vote in local elections."
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| 11/7/2006 |
Voter intimidation |
AZ |
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Tuscon, Arizona, Hispanic voters intimidated with man carrying a gun, and others with video cameras.
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| 11/1/2006 |
Voter intimidation |
NY |
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Westchester County. Republican lawyers filed challenges to nearly 6,000 registered voters the previous Friday. Republican state Sen. Nicholas Spano asked the Westchester County Board of Elections not to send police officers to any voters' homes until after Nov. 7, to ensure that they are not intimidated into not voting. It appears that one/third of the challenged voters are minorities.
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| 11/15/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
PA |
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In Philadelphia, the Republican Party hired local people including down-and-out addicts as neighborhood poll watchers, paid the poll watchers to challenge their neighbors' voting, and sent visiting teams of burly enforcers in window-tinted vans in a mixed strategy of intimidation, pay and misinformation to suppress voting on November 2, according to a Brooklyn law student working with Election Protection.
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| 11/14/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
PA |
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York County. Officials received complaints of Hispanics being treated badly at the polls by poll workers.
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| 11/4/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
NH |
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Wolfeboro. Several residents with Kerry/Edwards signs in their yards found roofing nails in their driveways the morning of the election. Police started a criminal investigation.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
OH |
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Cincinnati. Long lines and some confusion met many Hamilton County voters at the polls early this morning, with polls suddenly crowded with hundreds of vote challengers and poll monitors, most of them in heavily Democratic and overwhelmingly African-American precincts.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
OH |
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Cincinnati. Voters and vote monitors complained that the GOP precinct judge was questioning every voter about his or her address and "being a jerk about it."
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| 11/2/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
FL |
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Seminole County. Complaints of voter intimidation were also reported at the Community United Methodist Church in Casselberry, Fla.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
MS |
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Jackson. Some early voters at a Hattiesburg precinct were wrongly informed Tuesday they couldn't vote if they were wearing clothing promoting the University of Southern Mississippi, election officials said.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
SD |
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Republican poll workers in Lake Andes were intimidating Native American voters on Monday, a federal judge ruled early today.
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| 10/31/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
SC |
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Charleston County election officials warned voters Friday to ignore a fake letter that purports to be from the NAACP. The letter threatens voters who have outstanding parking tickets or have failed to pay child support with arrest.
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| 10/29/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
US |
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In opposition to the first Amendment and decades of precedents set by both the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, the U.S. Attorney General is arguing that only the Justice Department, and not voters themselves, may sue to enforce the voting rights set out in the Help America Vote Act.
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| 10/28/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
CA |
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Napa County. Registrar John Tuteur has declared that people who don't want to use the e-voting machines will be asked to wait for everyone else in line at the time to cast their votes before they will be given a paper ballot. Story Archive |
| 10/23/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
FL |
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Campaigners are harassing voters in counties across the state. A loophole in the state law fails to prevent campaigners from approaching voters during early voting. Story Archive |
| 9/9/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
AZ |
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Pima County Voter Registrar Chris Roads said on the program that out-of-state students are committing a felony if they register to vote in Arizona and they don't intend on remaining in the state "indefinitely." Students consulted attorneys and held a press conference last week declaring that it was perfectly legal for out-of-state students to vote in Pima County as long as they've lived here 29 days. Even Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez backpedaled from Roads' statement in comments last week to the Arizona Daily Wildcat.
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