DOJ Probes Fla. Voter Intimidation Claims

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The Justice Department is investigating accusations that Florida law enforcement officers intimidated elderly black voters during a probe of voting fraud last spring.Sheldon Bradshaw, principal deputy assistant attorney general with the department's Civil Rights Division, disclosed the investigation after Mary Frances Berry, chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, raised the matter at a commission hearing Friday.

``We are aware, and we have opened an investigation,'' Bradshaw said. ``I'm not at liberty to discuss details'' because the probe is ongoing, he said.There have been growing calls for a federal investigation of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's response to allegations of voter fraud in Orlando's mayoral election. Democrat Buddy Dyer's narrow victory sparked accusations that a black activist may have improperly filled out absentee ballots. FDLE agents interviewed dozens of voters who cast absentee ballots.

Civil rights groups and Democrats contended the agents' presence and behavior, including allegedly displaying their guns, intimidated the minority voters they visited. Democratic Sens. Bob Graham of Florida and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, as well as Florida's three black Democratic House members, demanded an investigation in letters last month to Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The FDLE denies any intimidation occurred. FDLE spokesman Geo Morales said Friday he was unaware of a Justice Department investigation.
``There was no intimidation,'' he said. ``They went out into the community and interviewed a random sample of witnesses in an investigation of absentee ballot fraud.''



http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Voter-Intimidation.html

[flordehinojos]

1. oh, please!!!!!!!!!!!

Does anybody believe that Ashcroft's DOJ is going to make a finding against its own people?

Voter intimidation in Florida is real.

Ashcroft's justice Department will never admit it, it will always deny it, it is in bed with our delusional smirker ... what else can be said?

Not much!

[DeepModem Mom]

2. kick

[Tomee450]

3. The investigation

will go nowhere.

[Amigust]

4. Another Whitewash Being Cooked Up for the Gullible

Where would we be without our official investigations, stacked to protect the criminals they're investigating?

http://amigust.blogspot.com