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10/03/2004:
"New investigation uncovers more racism"
New investigation uncovers more racism, voter intimidation and faulty poll machinesBLACK people intimidated at the polling booth. Voting machines that register ballots wrongly. Welcome to the disaster-waiting-to-happen that is the US presidential election of November 2004.
An investigation by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) into voter intimidation recounts a catalogue of incidents designed to suppress the black vote.
In Kentucky, county Republican party chairman Jack Richardson said he wanted to put "voter challengers" – people who check that voters are who they say they are and are eligible to vote – in predominantly Democratic precincts which have a large African-American population. Other Republicans called the plan "rogue and racist behaviour".
In Detroit, John Pappageorge, a Republican member of the House of Representatives, said: "If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election." Black people make up 83% of Detroit’s population.
Full Article : sundayherald.com
