Some (Mississippi) Counties Report Party Interference With Voting

[Fovea]

This in from the Jackson Channel

http://www.thejacksonchannel.com/news/2609859/detail.html

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Secretary of state spokesman David Blount said several counties -- including Madison, Copiah and Lafayette -- have reported problems with party representatives interfering with poll workers.

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Clark said his office also has received complaints about the use of videotaping equipment at polling places, in violation of federal law, and reports of poll watchers going uninvited into voting booths with voters.
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No mention of which parties are involved in which counties...

I am sure we will hear more of this.

[revco2k2]

1. voter intimidation by the "poll watchers"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/mississippi.election.letter.pdf

[Noordam]

2. Whites video taping blacks ...

you can guess what parties from that.

[FRAFG]

6. Video taping

Is there anything illegal about video taping people going and coming from the polls? It's proballity just considered open to the public to stand ont the sidewalk in front of the building. I just don't know how a political party could challenge it if nothing techically illegal is going on.

[Alenne]

7. It is against the law

At the end of the article it sates that it is in violation of federal law.

"Clark said his office also has received complaints about the use of videotaping equipment at polling places, in violation of federal law, and reports of poll watchers going uninvited into voting booths with voters."

[Mountainman]

3. By the time anyone does anything about it the polls are closed

Then we have to have an investigation which gathers facts and then the plaintifs settle for next to nothing and the damage is done.

[schultzee]

4. Can't charges be filed instead of settling for $ our of court?

The NAACP should have never taken $$$ in Florida but insisted upon prosecution.

[TacticalPeek]

8. There it is.

[kayell]

5. I expect we will be seeing more of this too

:-(

[lovedems]

9. Well hell

This just totally sucks! I guess it worked for them in Florida so why not go nation wide! If they can't scare people with a war and terror threats I guess they will scare them in the voting booth. They are evil!

[DrWeird]

10. Fucking nazi sons of bitches.

I'd call for a boycott of Mississippi and Florida until they end apartheid, but already not getting my money anyway.

[salin]

11. radical regressionists want to take us back to 1950.

hell it didn't stop a voter intimidator from becoming a Supreme Court Chief Justice...

This is the legacy of silence - where the rest of the dem party let the Congressional Black Caucus and NAACP stand alone in protesting voter disenfranchisement in Florida.