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To: Dale Baker who wrote (148244)	10/28/2010 12:01:28 AM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (1) of 542603

That voter later argued that members of the New Black Panther Party -- which the Bush administration saw as too meaningless to pursue -- Well that's not true according to this Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org "In January 2009, less than two weeks before the Bush administration left office, the civil rights division of the Department of Justice filed suit under the voting rights act against both men who had stood outside the polling station, as well as against the party and its chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz.[3] The lawsuit accused them of using uniforms, racial insults and a weapon to intimidate voters and those who were there to assist them.[2] In March or April 2009 Bartie Bull, a former civil rights lawyer who was serving as a poll watcher at the polling station where the incident occurred, submitted an affidavit at Justice's request supporting the lawsuit, stating that he considered it to have been the most severe instance of voter intimidation he had ever encountered.[2][5] When none of the defendants appeared in court or made any other attempt to answer the charges, the career attorneys pursuing the lawsuit assumed that they would win it by default. However in May 2009 Loretta King, who was then the head of the division, voluntarily dismissed the charges against the party, Jerry Jackson and Malik Zulu Shabazz." Whether Holder had a hand in the dismissal of the case is another matter.

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