Sentences with phrase «voters intimidation»

In 1981, when he was acting as adviser to then New Jersey gubernatorial candidate (later Governor) Tom Kean, the RNC assembled a ballot security force consisting of off - duty law enforcement officers wearing armbands that read «National Ballot Security Task Force» that was alleged to have engaged in voter intimidation in minority neighborhoods of Newark, Camden, Paterson, and other cities.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

The Senate confirmation hearing of Sen. Jeff Sessions, President - elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, is likely to rehash racially charged allegations that derailed his efforts to become a federal judge and made him a symbol of black - voter intimidation under the Reagan administration.

Christians do not use the US Justice Dept to aid and abet Black Panthers armed voter intimidation in Philadelphia like Obama did.

«While most of Desperate Dan's stunts, like his post office art legislation or shameless flip - flopping on sanctuary cities, are simply embarrassing, in this case he has allowed his failing campaign to cross the line into outrageous voter intimidation,» the statement went on to say.

Campaigns have already been accused of digitally manipulating photos, for instance to make a crowd at a friendly event seem larger than it actually was, and over the years political operatives have tried just about every dirty trick imaginable, from push - polling to outright voter intimidation.

But city Democrats today argued that the real «rigging» in the works are voter identification and voter intimidation efforts they claimed the GOP has turned against communities of color, the poor and college students.

Democrats will try to force votes Monday on several bills to ease voter access, including early voting, automatic voter registration and making voter intimidation a crime.

The Republican Party's observers are constrained by a consent decree that goes back to alleged voter intimidation in 1981.

But it says voter intimidation is nevertheless widespread, «with attacks being suffered by candidates and supporters on all sides.»

«It is my job to prevent voter intimidation and harassment to the extent possible.»

There are also concerns that diamond sales are funding coordinated violence and voter intimidation before next year's elections.

And when Trump indicated that he'd reject the election's results if he loses, he wasn't just whining — he was stoking his supporters» threats of violence, and encouraging voter intimidation and racial profiling at the polls.

[citation needed] Opposition candidates claimed that the elections were marred by widespread fraud, voting irregularities, the repeated arrest of opposition politicians, and a climate of voter intimidation.

On Rivers» general electoral anarchy: «Shocking cases of cold blooded killings and beheading, obstruction of votes, arson, voter intimidation, ballot snatching, missing result sheets, presenting of fake ballot papers, multiple thumb - printing, campaigning at polling units, compromise of ad - hoc staffs, absence of level playing environment, violence against media personnel and impunity were witnessed in different magnitude across the length and breadth of the state.

Donovan (R - Staten Island / South Brooklyn) told NY1 that the two unidentified men worked for his campaign and were going door - to - door checking to see if the signatures were correct, but denied any voter intimidation or harassment.

The Rochester brick; the threats to lynch the U.S. Attorney General; the voter intimidation; the guns brought to health care informational meetings; the death threats against Comptroller DiNapoli after he was first appointed; etc..)

I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O'Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O'Neill called it «voter intimidation») by Doug Hoffman supporters.

Consequently, voter intimidation and election tampering become far more difficult.

Depending upon your party affiliation, Election Day may serve as a reminder of democracy at work or, alternatively, as a reminder that our nation still hasn't eliminated the types of voter intimidation and other shenanigans that produced the Voting Rights Act.