US Justice Department to monitor Arizona elections
Source: AP
The U.S. Justice Department has announced that it will monitor primary elections in Arizonas Maricopa County.
The department said Monday that federal observers will be dispatched Tuesday to make sure that Maricopa County follows the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. That law prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group.
Observers will watch and record activities during voting hours at polling locations.
Maricopa County officials, especially Sheriff Joe Arpaio, have come under fire for the treatment of Latino residents.
Read more: http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/08/27/us-justice-department-to-monitor-arizona-elections/
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)JudyM
(29,251 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)Can't they do something about that too?
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)drm604
(16,230 posts)Governor Corbett is refusing to give them the information they're requesting.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,076 posts)... harassing voters at Arizona polling places in the 60's if he didn't like the way they looked, holding up the whole process and disenfranchising many.
"Rehnquist's critics produced affidavits alleging that he harassed voters at a predominantly black and Hispanic Phoenix precinct in 1964. Rehnquist issued a blanket denial that he had challenged the qualifications of minority voters in that period. Democrats found 14 witnesses who swore they had seen Rehnquist doing exactly that; additionally, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Phoenix, James Brosnahan, testified that Rehnquist was not being truthful when he said he was at the polls merely to help "arbitrate disputes" on Election Day 1962."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1101296,00.html#ixzz24mMr7Wsf
amb123
(1,581 posts)"My Fellow Citizens, we are now an Occupied Territory. In the name of God, whom we all revere, in the name of liberty we hold so dear, in the name of decency, which we all cherish, what is happening in America?"
That's what he said when President Eisenhower called in the 101st Airborne Division to enforce desegregation in Little Rock Schools in 1957.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14654126
And you can count on Sheriff Joe calling our President a "Tyrant" for making sure that everyone in Arizona has their right to vote protected.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)the vote. I actually wrote the campaign and said use the National Guard in every state that is suppressing the vote and let the people vote. This is a Federal Election. The damn Rethugicans.
xxenderwigginxx
(146 posts)Are you sure you aren't a rethug?
Raster
(20,998 posts)...and lawful citizen is allowed to cast their ballot.
This and every election are for every citizen to be able to have their voice heard. EVERY CITIZEN. No matter what their color, their race, their religion. EVERY CITIZEN.
I find the voter suppression by the republicans ABSOLUTELY FUCKING DISGUSTING.
xxenderwigginxx
(146 posts)wait until there's a right wing POTUS wanting to "monitor" elections in liberal districts.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Every citizen should be allowed to cast their legal and lawful vote AND ANYONE THAT STANDS IN THE WAY SHOULD BE DEALT WITH IN THE MOST HARSH AND SEVERE FASHION.