Reports of Siskiyou County sheriff intimidating voters (xpost from GD)
By Damon Arthur of the Redding Record Searchlight
Updated: Yesterday 4:03 p.m.
... Attorney Generals Office representatives are in Siskiyou County today after reports Sheriff Jon Lopey has been intimidating residents of Hmong descent to keep them from voting in todays election ...
Lori Shellenberger, the American Civil Liberties Unions director of the California Voting Rights Project, said she was contacted last week by a representative of the Hmong community that residents were being intimidated by the Sheriffs Office.
Shellenberger said the Sheriffs Office set up a checkpoint outside a subdivision near Hornbrook and stopped cars being driven by Hmongs only and asked them whether they were registered to vote ...
Lopey was not available for comment Tuesday and has not returned a message left at his office ...
http://www.redding.com/news/local/Siskiyou-sheriff-accused-of-intimidating-voters-382134091.html?d=mobile
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