(03-27-2012 01:43 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: And the people...heck...ONE person...intimidated was.............?
First way to miss the point that it is a crime to attempt to intimidate voters! You don't need to succeed to have done something wrong. No one who saw the videotape could come to any conclusion other than the NNB were trying to intimidate people at that poll.
From Congressional Testimony..
HILL: [Shabazz] immediately started with ‘What are you doing here, Cracker?’ And he and Mr. Jackson attempted to close ranks.
I went straight between them through the door to find our poll watcher, who was inside the building at the time…he was pretty shaken up…he was visibly upset.
QUESTION: What did he tell you?
HILL:
He was called a race traitor for being a poll watcher, credentialed poll watcher for the Republican Party as a black man, and that he was threatened if he stepped outside of the building, there would be hell to pay.
Intimidating poll watcher falls under voter intimidation.
But it does not end there!
THERNSTROM: But otherwise, did you see anybody at the polling place who obviously intended to vote, and didn’t end up voting because of the presence of the New Black Panther Party members?
HILL: It was two women and a gentleman….They stopped right at the corner of the driveway, circular drive, where I was standing on the phone, and they said, ‘What’s going on?’ Truthfully, I didn’t really have a good answer for them…But at that exact moment in time, those people were not going near that doorway, and ma’am, I’m not as well versed as you are in these civil rights issues, but they were intimidated.