Detroiters complain of being frisked at polling location that opened late
Source: Detroit News
August 7, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Detroiters complain of being frisked at polling location that opened late
By Tony Briscoe and Christine Ferretti
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Darnell Wright, executive director of the Detroit NAACP, said he spent about 40 minutes at the high school Tuesday morning after a number of calls came in to its election protection hotline, complaining that the polls weren't open and that there was an individual dressed in "Army fatigues and combat boots" checking bags of voters attempting to gain admittance to the school.
Wright said the NAACP immediately was in contact with school officials to ensure "no voters were harassed, intimidated or impeded from voting today" at the building or any of the 14 other school locations being used as polling sites
"That kind of presence very well could lead to voters being intimidated and not wanting to approach the school building," said Wright, adding he didn't believe the intimidation was intentional. "The gentleman was nice in demeanor and wasn't abrasive, other than his image being abrasive to the situation. He was there to do a job, but extra sensitivity was needed
today is Election Day."
Wright said the issue was promptly sorted out with the assistance of the clerk's office and school officials. He said the searches were being conducted by one individual. The school, he said, had contracted a private security firm.
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Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120807/POLITICS01/208070365#ixzz22stagzbU
Is anyone surprised by this?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)How many ways do you want to suppress votes.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)... to get off its ass and start taking names
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Creepy!
Some freak show "militia" type? There to volunteer to stop all that "voter fraud"?
Creepy.
And it's harassment and intimidation.
When the hell is this shit going to the Supreme Court? Of course, that in and of itself would be a major crap shoot.
It seems simple...Americans have the RIGHT to vote. Period.
They_Live
(3,236 posts)computer code? cell phones?
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)If it weren't so sadly correct
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)If he really discovered illegal weapons, why didn't he call the police?
And why the battlefield "Army fatigues and combat boots"?
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)And all poll workers will have to go through it, too.
What? "Hostility to social out-groups" is one of the main personality traits of the kind of people who shoot up public gatherings.
Our deterrence lacks credibility!