Will any of them break before November?
U.S. Probes Fla. Voter Intimidation Claims
WASHINGTON - 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 Friday.
"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.
One of the problems with this election is having the winner seen as legitimate by the losing side. Stories like this don't help much. Florida is a place that has proven itself to bear watching. The appearance of anything short of a fair election this time would be a disaster for American democracy. Whereas the story is about a federal probe, what are the chances this will fix any Florida voting problems? Between intimidation, selective voter purges and downright incompetence, these folks have taken KITV (Keep In the Vote) to a new art form.