voter intimidation

Justice Department Sends Poll Watchers Into County Where White Voters Were Intimidated

Ryan J. Reilly | August 22, 2011, 2:00PM

Attorney General Eric Holder is sending poll watchers into a Mississippi county where white voters were previously found to have been intimidated by a Democratic official who is African-American.

The Justice Department announced Monday they were sending poll watchers to monitor runoff elections in Mississippi's Noxubee County, as well as in Bolivar, Tunica and Wilkinson counties to ensure their compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. DOJ also monitored the first primary election in Noxubee County earlier this month.

The 2005 Noxubee case was the first ever so-called "reverse" discrimination voter intimidation case in the history of the Voting Rights Act. Ike Brown, the chairman of Noxubee County's Democratic Executive Committee in Mississippi, was found to have been trying to limit the participation of white voters in local elections.

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Topics: Civil Rights Division, Civil Rights Division Voting Section, DOJ, DOJ Civil Rights Division, Eric Holder, Justice Department, New Black Panthers, Voting, Voting Rights Act, voter intimidation