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Were Latino Voters Intimidated Across the Country?

10:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics

9 Nov 2006

boothsmall.jpgJen had already written about Latino voters being intimidated in Cali pre-election, but now after the election more cases across the country of Latinos being intimidated are coming to light.

In Colorado, Latino voters received phone calls on Monday (similar to calls in Virginia), where callers told them they that if they voted they would go to jail.


In Tucson, legal observers with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund witnessed Latino voters being targeted outside a polling station. Staff attorney Diego Bernal told the Arizona Republic:

“As one man was going up to the voter with the clipboard, another man was videotaping the interaction. At the same time, the third man was walking around with a gun on his waist. They were being provocative. They would have conversations with each other, where they were using mock Spanish accents. It was upsetting.”

Don’t forget, as I wrote yesterday, Arizona passed several anti-immigrant propositions. Do you think maybe one had to do with the other?

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