While Donald Trump talks of a “rigged election,” Mike Pence may suppress the votes of nearly 50,000
While Donald Trump talks of a “rigged election,” Mike Pence may suppress the votes of nearly 50,000 African-Americans
by Sophia Tesfaye at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2016/10/17/while-donald-trump-talks-of-a-rigged-election-mike-pence-may-suppress-the-votes-of-nearly-50000-african-americans/
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Dickerson did not question Pence, however, about why Indiana State Police recently seized 45,000 voter-registration applications, most of them from black voters. So while viewers may have given Pence credit for seeming relatively reasonable compared with his running mate, alleged voter suppression in his own backyard went largely unnoticed amid the hoopla over Trump’s hysterical claims.
Indiana State Police last week raided the largest voter registration agency in the state because of just 10 confirmed cases amid 45,000 submitted voter-registration forms containing so-called fraudulent information.
Indiana’s Secretary of State Connie Lawson, a key sponsor of her state’s 2005 voter ID law (upheld by the Supreme Court), in September announced an investigation of the Indiana Voter Registration Project. On Oct. 4, state police detectives served a search warrant on the project’s Indianapolis office. The results of the search have not been released, and the affidavit and search warrant will remain sealed for 30 days, according to the Indy Star.
The D.C.-based Patriot Majority USA, which sponsored the Indiana Voter Registration Project and similar efforts to register communities of color in 13 other states, said the raid is a Republican-led effort to suppress turnout ahead of the presidential election. (Patriot Majority USA at one point this year had been affiliated with a PAC that supports Democrats in U.S. Senate races but not during this part of the election cycle.)
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