UNITED STATES CIVIL RIGHTS IMPLICATIONS OF FEDERAL VOTING FRAUD PROSECUTIONS (27 1966 HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY FIRST SESSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS IMPLICATIONS OF FEDERAL VOTING FRAUD PROSECUTIONS SEPTEMBER 26, 1985 Serial No. 55 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1986 60-621 0 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY PETER W. RODINO, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JACK BROOKS, Texas HAMILTON FISH, JR., New York ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin CARLOS J. MOORHEAD, California DON EDWARDS, California HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan THOMAS N. KINDNESS, Ohio JOHN F. SEIBERLING, Ohio DAN LUNGREN, California ROMANO L. MAZZOLI, Kentucky F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., WILLIAM J. HUGHES, New Jersey Wisconsin SAM B. HALL, JR., Texas BILL MCCOLLUM, Florida MIKE SYNAR, Oklahoma E. CLAY SHAW, JR., Florida PATRICIA SCHROEDER, Colorado GEORGE W. GEKAS, Pennsylvania DAN GLICKMAN, Kansas MICHAEL DEWINE, Ohio BARNEY FRANK, Massachusetts WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER, California GEO. W. CROCKETT, JR., Michigan HANK BROWN, Colorado CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York PATRICK L. SWINDALL, Georgia HOWARD COBLE, North Carolina M. ELAINE MIELKE, General Counsel GARNER J. CLINE, Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS DON EDWARDS, California, Chairman ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan Wisconsin PATRICIA SCHROEDER, Colorado MICHAEL DEWINE, Ohio WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER, California (II) 86-602882 Burnim, Ira A., Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, accompanied by Sweet, Dennis, attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center ....... Prepared statement ........... Keeney, John C., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, De- Sanders, Hank, Alabama State Senate, Selma, AL.............................. Prepared statement ..... ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Statement of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression ..... "Crackdown in the Black Belt” by Allen Tullos, Southern Changes, March- "Not-So Simple Justice" by Allen Tullos, Southern Changes, May June 1985.... Statement of Maryland State Senator Clarence M. Mitchell III, president, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators...... Letter to Hon. Don Edwards from John C. Keeney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice, October 2, 1985 Appendix 1.-Selected Department of Justice Documents relating to Federal prosecution of election offenses ..... Appendix 2.-Absentee ballots from Perry County, AL...... tee election manager, Perry County, AL.... Appendix 4.-Statement of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Appendix 5.-Letter to Hon. Don Edwards from John Kennard, tax assessor, (III) |