Intimidating voters
11-Nov-2019 13:32
See our Privacy Policy and Third Party Partners to learn more about the use of data and your rights. Tampers or interferes with property, having no right to do so nor reasonable ground to believe that the person has such right, with the intent to cause substantial inconvenience to another because of the person’s perception of the other’s race, color, religion, sexual orientation, disability or national origin; Intentionally, because of the person’s perception of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, disability or national origin of another or of a member of the other’s family, subjects the other person to alarm by threatening: It is constitutionally permissible to punish otherwise criminal conduct more severely when it is motivated by racial, ethnic or religious hatred than when it is motivated by individual animosity. Beebe, 67 Or App 738, 680 P2d 11 (1984), Sup Ct review denied Where defendant and another were charged and jointly tried for intimidation in first degree and other person was acquitted, defendant could be convicted and sentenced only for intimidation in second degree. Martin, 109 Or App 483, 8 (1991) 18 WLR 197 (1982); 28 WLR 455 (1992); 71 OLR 689 (1992); 72 OLR 157 (1993) Legislative Counsel Committee, CHAPTER 166—Offenses Against Public Order; Firearms and Other Weapons; Racketeering, https:// (2017) (last accessed Mar. Legislative Counsel Committee, Annotations to the Oregon Revised Statutes, Cumulative Supplement - 2017, Chapter 166, https:// (2017) (last accessed Mar. Oregon assembles these lists by analyzing references between Sections.The New Black Panther Party was back at the polls Tuesday in Philadelphia, where its members provoked a complaint of voter intimidation in 2008.A reporter for Philadelphia Magazine found a “uniformed member of the New Black Panther Party” Tuesday morning at the entrance to a polling place in the 1200 block of Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia.Shapiro says workers at the polling place in North Philadelphia became aggressive with a voter and also told another voter that a voting machine was broken, although investigators later found that it had been operational all day.
Sometimes he says “specific areas”; on one occasion, during an appearance in Pennsylvania, he called out Philadelphia. As experts explain in the Boston Globe article, it’s one thing to have election monitors stationed at polling places to make sure poll workers and campaign volunteers aren’t breaking election law; it’s quite another to encourage groups of vigilantes to hang out at polling places in unfamiliar neighborhoods, with the stated goal of making people feel too uncomfortable to vote if they look like they shouldn’t be voting.
But at least some of his supporters are picking up on the subtext. As Jamelle Bouie wrote this week for Slate, America has a history of Election Day violence.