FBI Investigating GOP Intimidation of Democratic Voters in Virginia

Brian Zick November 7, 2006

The head of the Virginia Board of Elections, Jean Jensen, has told MSNBC that “the FBI is now investigating allegations of voter intimidation and voter suppression.” State officials have documented “dozens of phone calls that were made to heavily Democratic precincts in which the people who were receiving the calls were either given incorrect information about polling sites [or] misdirected about election laws.” Think Progress has the MSNBC video and an audio clip of one of the misleading phone messages.

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