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Evidence of Latino Voter Intimidation in California, Colorado, Virginia and Arizona
The letter sent to 14,000 voters with Spanish surnames in California's 47th district last month wasn't the only episode of voter intimidation targeting Latino voters this election cycle.
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, prompting Democratic senator Ken Salazar to make a call of his own own telling them that they could.
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."
Clearly things are getting worse for Latinos in Arizona, where voters yesterday overwhelmingly passed four anti-immigration propositions. But in California there was at least some justice yesterday. Tan Nugyen, whose campaign was behind that now infamous letter (and who is also an immigrant, yeah, go figure) got trounced at the polls, losing 62% to 38% to Rep. Loretta Sanchez.
—Amaya Rivera
"WASHINGTON (AP) ? Almost 79 million people voted in Tuesday's election, with Democrats drawing more support than Republicans for the first time in a midterm election since 1990.
The overall turnout rate, reflecting a percentage of voting age population, was 40.4 percent, compared with 39.7 percent in 2002, according to an Associated Press vote count and an analysis by American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate."
20 plus % of eligible American voters, confronted with a power mad president and the most corrupt congress in my lifetime had enough sense to throw a monkey wrench into the Rabid Right's machinery of world domination. 19% of eligible American voters were so content with the Bush regime, they voted to stay the course. An illegal, immoral and insane war of aggression didn't shake their faith in conservative ideology one bit.
60% of eligible voters didn't even bother to vote.
The good news is, our quasi-democratic state has survived another year of relentless attack from the Rabid Right. The bad news is, our country has moved so far to the right, if the world was flat, we'd standing with our left foot on earth and our right foot dangling in space.
Good luck, America.
"WASHINGTON (AP) ? Almost 79 million people voted in Tuesday's election, with Democrats drawing more support than Republicans for the first time in a midterm election since 1990.
The overall turnout rate, reflecting a percentage of voting age population, was 40.4 percent, compared with 39.7 percent in 2002, according to an Associated Press vote count and an analysis by American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate."
20 plus % of eligible American voters, confronted with a power mad president and the most corrupt congress in my lifetime had enough sense to throw a monkey wrench into the Rabid Right's machinery of world domination. 19% of eligible American voters were so content with the Bush regime, they voted to stay the course. An illegal, immoral and insane war of aggression didn't shake their faith in conservative ideology one bit.
60% of eligible voters didn't even bother to vote.
The good news is, our quasi-democratic state has survived another year of relentless attack from the Rabid Right. The bad news is, our country has moved so far to the right, if the world was flat, we'd standing with our left foot on earth and our right foot dangling in space.
Good luck, America.
"WASHINGTON (AP) Almost 79 million people voted in Tuesday's election, with Democrats drawing more support than Republicans for the first time in a midterm election since 1990.
The overall turnout rate, reflecting a percentage of voting age population, was 40.4 percent, compared with 39.7 percent in 2002, according to an Associated Press vote count and an analysis by American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate."
20 plus % of eligible American voters, confronted with a power mad president and the most corrupt congress in my lifetime had enough sense to throw a monkey wrench into the Rabid Right's machinery of world domination. 19% of eligible American voters were so content with the Bush regime, they voted to stay the course. An illegal, immoral and insane war of aggression didn't shake their faith in conservative ideology one bit.
60% of eligible voters didn't even bother to vote.
The good news is, our quasi-democratic state has survived another year of relentless attack from the Rabid Right. The bad news is, our country has moved so far to the right, if the world was flat, we'd standing with our left foot on earth and our right foot dangling in space.
Good luck, America.