Indiana officials are trying to block almost 45,000 black citizens from voting

[KamaAina]

https://thinkprogress.org/indiana-registration-raid-51a6a7a83f37

Roughly 45,000 newly registered voters in Indiana — almost all of whom are black — may not be allowed to vote next month after state police targeted the state’s largest voter registration drive, forcing it to shut down its operation.

Police raided the Indiana Voter Registration Project (IVRP) offices on October 4, seizing documents and equipment and forcing the group to cease its get-out-the-vote efforts one week before the end of the state’s registration period. Bill Buck, a spokesperson for the liberal nonprofit Patriot Majority USA which runs the IVRP, told ThinkProgress that IVRP could have registered about 5,000 more voters in that additional week....

Patriot Majority alleges the investigation and raid were political moves, and that Lawson worked closely with Gov. Mike Pence (R), who has pushed the “voter fraud” conspiracy on the campaign trail alongside Donald Trump....

“It’s clear that the governor or the governor’s staff are very aware and involved in what’s happening,” he continued. “It fits into the Trump/Pence narrative that in certain neighborhoods, you have to watch how many times people show up to vote and how things happen.”

[BSdetect]

1. What a good example to show the rest of the world.

Unbelievable oppression.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Perhaps Pence is permitting election fraud

What was the excuse for the raid??

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Voter registration fraud

....allegedly.


I suspect, however, that, despite all of the high news drama that ensued with the raid (which occurred around the time that voter registration closed- convenient timing) the matter will be quietly dropped after the election and no wrongdoing will have been found. This particular group was particularly focused on registering African-Americans to vote, which was probably the real "crime".

[Angry Dragon]

9. VWB ................ voting while black

[oasis]

3. Time for Omarosa, Ben Carson and Milwaukee Sheriff Clark to speak up.

where are they?

[Panich52]

4. Fascism has been relatively quiet f/ 70 years

Worrisome that it's rearing its ugly head w/ renewed fervor here and in Europe.

[anneboleyn]

5. Repubs are TERRIFIED about Evan Bayh, and this crap reveals it. They thought Indiana was safe

and now it looks like Bayh has a very, very good chance of winning. I personally think Bayh will win and be part of the senate flip.

[Fast Walker 52]

8. a ton of money being poured into that race

I live in Indiana, and just saw the same commercial against Bayh played twice during the same break in the world series, and have seen SO many other ads. The Republican candidate is gross and Bayh is so much better... have to wonder how much effect the ads will have.

[Fast Walker 52]

7. Fuck Pence.... UGH!

Indiana was the first state to start enacting ridiculous voter ID laws too...