U.S. Investigates Alleged Voter Intimidation
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.
“We are aware, and we have opened an investigation,” Bradshaw said. “I’m not at liberty to discuss details” because the probe is ongoing, he said.
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