{"id":14107,"date":"2016-10-27T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=14107"},"modified":"2016-10-27T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:00:13","slug":"democratic-party-takes-gop-to-court-over-voter-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/elections\/democratic-party-takes-gop-to-court-over-voter-intimidation.html","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Party Takes GOP to Court Over Voter Intimidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Democratic Party Takes GOP to Court Over Voter Intimidation<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Democratic Party Takes GOP to Court Over Voter Intimidation:-<\/strong> The Democratic National Committee asked a judge to block the Republican Party from supporting efforts to discourage minorities from voting based on Donald Trump\u2019s claims that the presidential election is \u201crigged.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">In a preemptive strike against what it called a coordinated effort to intimidate voters, the Democratic Party\u2019s governing body alleged Wednesday that the Republican National Committee is violating a court order in a case that started 35 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The RNC is supporting Trump\u2019s recruitment of so-called watchers at polling places, which is in breach of consent decrees going back to 1982 that forbid the group from engaging in <\/span>ballot-security<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> measures, according to a filing in federal court in Newark, New Jersey. The DNC said the watchers are really intended to deter registered voters from casting ballots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cThe filing is completely meritless,\u201d said Lindsay Walters, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee. \u201cJust as in all prior elections in which the consent decree was in effect, the RNC strictly abides by the consent decree and does not take part directly or indirectly in any efforts to prevent or remedy vote fraud. Nor do we coordinate with the Trump campaign or any other campaign or party organization in any efforts they may make in this area.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The dispute follows years of court battles over legislation, primarily in Republican-led states, to require voters to present photo identification and curtailing practices such as early voting that tend to increase the turnout of poor and minority voters who tend to favor Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Voter Fraud<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Trump has received direct and tacit support of the RNC in his endeavors to prevent alleged rigging and voter fraud, the Democrats alleged in the filing, citing statements by Trump\u2019s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cTrump has falsely and repeatedly told his supporters that the November 8 election will be \u2018rigged\u2019 based upon fabricated claims of voter fraud in \u2019certain areas,\u2019 according to the filing. \u201cUnsurprisingly, those \u2019certain areas\u2019 are exclusively communities in which large minority voting populations reside.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The original consent decree arose from the RNC\u2019s efforts in the early 1980s to interrogate and intimidate registered voters in predominantly African-American precincts in New Jersey, according to the filing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2016-10-27\/democratic-party-sues-gop-over-trump-s-election-rigging-claims<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/elections\/democratic-party-takes-gop-to-court-over-voter-intimidation.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Party Takes GOP to Court Over Voter Intimidation Democratic Party Takes GOP to Court Over Voter Intimidation:- The Democratic National Committee asked a judge to block the Republican Party from supporting efforts to discourage minorities from voting based on Donald Trump\u2019s claims that the presidential election is \u201crigged.\u201d In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[966],"tags":[8436,5938,8599,8600],"class_list":["post-14107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","tag-democratic-national-committee","tag-democratic-party","tag-democratic-party-takes-gop-to-court-over-voter-intimidation","tag-donald-john-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}