Civil Rights Implications of Federal Voting Fraud Prosecutions: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... September 26, 1985, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 348 páginas |
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Página 15
... asked the Justice Department over the years to look into it . What the Justice Department said to us - they said , in effect , that there are no real laws against that . That is a gray area . What you have to do is learn to use the ...
... asked the Justice Department over the years to look into it . What the Justice Department said to us - they said , in effect , that there are no real laws against that . That is a gray area . What you have to do is learn to use the ...
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... asked the Justice Department in 1972 to get involved . The Justice Department apparently had a rule that said they couldn't get involved unless there was a Federal official involved , that it af- fected a Federal election , and they set ...
... asked the Justice Department in 1972 to get involved . The Justice Department apparently had a rule that said they couldn't get involved unless there was a Federal official involved , that it af- fected a Federal election , and they set ...
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... asked for assist- ance , that we begged for assistance from the Justice Department , and it was the Justice Department that said the laws are so vague you can't do anything about that ; that what you have to do in those situations is ...
... asked for assist- ance , that we begged for assistance from the Justice Department , and it was the Justice Department that said the laws are so vague you can't do anything about that ; that what you have to do in those situations is ...
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... asked them had refused to pre- clear that the Justice Department went back and changed its ruling and said that it would not , it didn't need to be precleared . Then we had to go into court and get a three - judge panel in order to get ...
... asked them had refused to pre- clear that the Justice Department went back and changed its ruling and said that it would not , it didn't need to be precleared . Then we had to go into court and get a three - judge panel in order to get ...
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... asked them : " Is this your ballot or did you vote this way ? " They said , " Well , you see my name there , or you see - I assume this is my ballot . " What I am saying is that there was no indication that any wrongdoing had been done ...
... asked them : " Is this your ballot or did you vote this way ? " They said , " Well , you see my name there , or you see - I assume this is my ballot . " What I am saying is that there was no indication that any wrongdoing had been done ...
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absentee ballot ABSENTEE ELECTION MANAGER accompanying this ballot AFFIDAVIT OF ABSENTEE Alabama County ALABAMA DEMOCRATIC PARTY Albert Turner AUBURTIN ballot voluntarily BILLINGSLEA Black Belt black voters candidates CHARLES WAYNE BORDEN civil rights Comm CONGRESS THE LIBRARY conspiracy contests CONYERS County Commission Pl DAN MCCOY DEMOCRATIC PARTY PERRY District Attorney DONSANTO EDWARDS elected officials election crime election day election fraud FBI agents federal elections FRANK ROSS further swear going Government grand jury Greene County HOWARD For Member HOWELL HEFLIN illegally by absentee indictments investigation involved ISHIMARU Justice Department KEENEY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Marion marked the enclosed MARY G OFFICIAL ABSENTEE PRIMARY PARTY OFFICIAL ABSENTEE Perry County PERRY COUNTY Instructions Place 1-Vote political polls precinct primary election prosecution Public Integrity Section Reverend DOBYNES RIGHT ALABAMA DEMOCRATIC Sanders Senator SENSENBRENNER swear or affirm United States Attorney United States Senator-Vote vote absentee vote fraud vote in person Voting Rights Act zip code
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Página 163 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose...
Página 171 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Página 163 - ... other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, or Member of the House of Representatives, Delegates or Commissioners from the Territories or possessions, at any general, special, or primary election held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting or electing any such candidate.
Página 163 - ... persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years or both. If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the...
Página 177 - Price that when § 241 speaks of "any right or privilege secured ... by the Constitution or laws of the United States,
Página 181 - ... inequality vis-a-vis voters in irrationally favored counties. A citizen's right to a vote free of arbitrary impairment by state action has been judicially recognized as a right secured by the Constitution, when such impairment resulted from dilution by a false tally, cf.
Página 163 - Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address, or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both...
Página 178 - ... vis-a-vis voters in irrationally favored counties. A citizen's right to a vote free of arbitrary impairment by state action has been judicially recognized as a right secured by the Constitution, when such impairment resulted from dilution by a false tally, cf . United States v. Classic, 313 US 299; or by a refusal to count votes from arbitrarily selected precincts, cf.
Página 170 - The first is the oftcited rule that " 'ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity.
Página 182 - Undeniably the Constitution of the United States protects the right of all qualified citizens to vote, in state as well as in federal elections. A consistent line of decisions by this Court in cases involving attempts to deny or restrict the right of suffrage has made this indelibly clear. It has been repeatedly recognized that all qualified voters have a constitutionally protected right to vote, Ex parte Yarbrough, 110 US 651, and to have their votes counted, United States v.