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Seems to be crap brewing over tactics, intimidating and interrogating voters in Maricopa County, Az. Voter rights continue to be under the gun.
Voter rights groups say they may sue over pick of Arizona election auditing firms | Politics | pinalcentral.com
Jared Davidson, counsel for Project Democracy, said there is a crucial -- and legal difference -- between what is done by political interest groups and what Cyber Ninjas is doing here.
"Political canvassing, encouraging people to go out and vote in your community, that is not intimidating,'' he said. "But having an arm of the government, in this case a contractor with the Senate, going out and interrogating voters under the implication that there's somehow been illegality is absolutely intimidating.'
"So you have a group that's acting under color of state law ... going door to door, interrogating voters about their voting conduct,'' she told Capitol Media Services. And that, she said, can have no purpose or effect other than to intimidate voters by having them believe that they are somehow being investigated for their actions in casting a ballot, deterring them from going to the polls in the future.
Voter rights groups say they may sue over pick of Arizona election auditing firms | Politics | pinalcentral.com
Jared Davidson, counsel for Project Democracy, said there is a crucial -- and legal difference -- between what is done by political interest groups and what Cyber Ninjas is doing here.
"Political canvassing, encouraging people to go out and vote in your community, that is not intimidating,'' he said. "But having an arm of the government, in this case a contractor with the Senate, going out and interrogating voters under the implication that there's somehow been illegality is absolutely intimidating.'
"So you have a group that's acting under color of state law ... going door to door, interrogating voters about their voting conduct,'' she told Capitol Media Services. And that, she said, can have no purpose or effect other than to intimidate voters by having them believe that they are somehow being investigated for their actions in casting a ballot, deterring them from going to the polls in the future.