Saturday, September 18, 2004

Feds Probe Voter Intimidation in Florida

Feds Probe Voter Intimidation in Florida
By Staff and Wire Reports
Sep 18, 2004
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_5275.shtml
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....