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White Noxubee Co. (MS) voters' rights violated, federal judge rules
WMCTV.com ^ | June 29, 2007 | AP

Posted on 06/29/2007 7:08:56 PM PDT by Islander7

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge today (Friday) is ruling that whites' voting rights were violated in Noxubee County.

US District Judge Tom S- Lee's ruling comes six months after a two-week trial in January when Lee heard arguments from both the Justice Department and the Noxubee County Democrats.

The Justice Department had alleged the Noxubee County Democratic Party, its chairman Ike Brown and the county Election Commission practiced racial discrimination against white voters and candidates.

The Justice Department has called the situation in Noxubee County "the most extreme case of racial exclusion seen by the (department's) Voting Section in decades."

(Excerpt) Read more at wmcstations.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; discrimination; election; govwatch; liberals; mississippi; votefraud; voterfraud; votingrightsact
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Noxubee County is a rural area along the Alabama line with a majority black population.
1 posted on 06/29/2007 7:08:58 PM PDT by Islander7
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To: Islander7

Mainstream media going to talk about this......?


2 posted on 06/29/2007 7:11:29 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Fred Thompson....IMWITHFRED.COM)
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To: Rick_Michael

So they (local DEMOCRATIC PARTY politicians ) are excluding whites ....

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Waiting for MSM TO respond ........

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3 posted on 06/29/2007 7:16:23 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Islander7

Details in the article would be nice.


4 posted on 06/29/2007 7:16:40 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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To: Rick_Michael

Must be an extention of the “Black Belt” here in Bama..?


5 posted on 06/29/2007 7:20:28 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
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To: GATOR NAVY
Details in the article would be nice.

Agreed. I don't read what the offense was. What did the dems do wrong?

6 posted on 06/29/2007 7:22:22 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find)
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To: GATOR NAVY
That's all there is.

I grew up not far across the line from Macon and I've heard that the gentleman in question made some outrageous remarks.

7 posted on 06/29/2007 7:24:08 PM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (If MY people who are called by MY name -- the ball's in our court, folks.)
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To: jimfree

“Mr. Brown is accused in the lawsuit and in supporting documents of paying and organizing notaries, some of whom illegally marked absentee ballots or influenced how the ballots were voted; of publishing a list of voters, all white, accompanied by a warning that they would be challenged at the polls; of importing black voters into the county; and of altering racial percentages in districts by manipulating the registration rolls.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/us/politics/11voting.html?ex=1318219200&en=974523118ca482f3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss


8 posted on 06/29/2007 7:32:20 PM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: GATOR NAVY

More info here

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5011333

And here. The New York News no less!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/us/politics/11voting.html?ex=1318219200&en=974523118ca482f3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

The Justice Department’s main focus is Ike Brown, a local power broker whose imaginative electoral tactics have for 20 years caused whisperings from here to the state capital in Jackson, 100 miles to the southwest. Mr. Brown, tall, thin, a twice-convicted felon, the chairman of the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee and its undisputed political boss, is accused by the federal government of orchestrating — with the help of others — “relentless voting-related racial discrimination” against whites, whom blacks outnumber by more than 3 to 1 in the county.

His goal, according to the government: keeping black politicians — ones supported by Mr. Brown, that is — in office.

To do that, the department says, he and his allies devised a watertight system for controlling the all-determining Democratic primary, much as segregationists did decades ago.

Mr. Brown is accused in the lawsuit and in supporting documents of paying and organizing notaries, some of whom illegally marked absentee ballots or influenced how the ballots were voted; of publishing a list of voters, all white, accompanied by a warning that they would be challenged at the polls; of importing black voters into the county; and of altering racial percentages in districts by manipulating the registration rolls.

To run against the county prosecutor — one of two white officeholders in Noxubee — Mr. Brown brought in a black lawyer from outside the county, according to the supporting documents, who never even bothered to turn on the gas or electricity at his rented apartment. That candidate was disqualified.Whites, who make up just under 30 percent of the population here, are circumspect when discussing Mr. Brown, though he remains a hero to many blacks. When he drove off to federal prison to serve a sentence for tax fraud in 1995, he received a grand farewell from his political supporters and friends, including local elected officials; whites, on the other hand, for years have seen him as a kind of occult force in determining the affairs of the county.....

-SNIP-

This has been going on for a long time and Noxubee is only the first case to make it to court.


9 posted on 06/29/2007 7:32:37 PM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: Islander7

I wonder if Hillary has sent this guy a check yet, This is right down her alley.


10 posted on 06/29/2007 7:35:26 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (http://www.imwithfred.com/index.aspx)
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To: Islander7

“Whites, who make up just under 30 percent of the population here..”

Here too. I’m selling my house and moving. It’s become an increasingly hostile environment. It’s not as bad here as in Noxubee but they are working on it.


11 posted on 06/29/2007 7:44:18 PM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: Islander7

Thanks. NPR and the NYT? I’m surprised, to say the least.


12 posted on 06/29/2007 7:44:30 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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To: Islander7; wardaddy; WileyPink; jmax; 2ndDivisionVet; somniferum; flying Elvis; MagnoliaMS; ...
Mississippi Civil Whites ping
13 posted on 06/29/2007 7:46:34 PM PDT by WKB (It's hard to tell who's more afraid of Fred Thompson; The Dims or the rudibots.)
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To: Islander7

“The Justice Department has called the situation in Noxubee County “the
most extreme case of racial exclusion seen by the (department’s)
Voting Section in decades.””

And destined for about zero coverage on ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBC I suspect.


14 posted on 06/29/2007 7:48:57 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Islander7

bump


15 posted on 06/29/2007 7:49:52 PM PDT by lowbridge (f You’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
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a twice-convicted felon, the chairman of the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee

sounds about right

16 posted on 06/29/2007 7:59:24 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ( "...but you can't fool all of the people all the time." LINCOLN)
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To: maine-iac7

Not only is Ike a twice-convicted felon but he managed to get a judge to reinstate his own voting rights. Still trying to figure that one out.


17 posted on 06/29/2007 8:03:01 PM PDT by NerdDad (Aug 7, 1981, I married my soulmate, CDBEAR. 25 years and I'm still teenager-crazy in love with her.)
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And the Mississippi elections are coming up in August and I will be excluded from the local elections because I am a Republican. Alcorn County and Ms in general doesn’t have open primaries and we have no say in local politics unless we declare ourselves as Democrats.
18 posted on 06/29/2007 8:36:13 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: sgtbono2002
Demrats have practiced this as long as I've been born. And I'm old.

As a girl I heard my family talk of this kind of stuff.
Only thing was...they were talking about Republicans! ;-)

It was shhhhhhshed talk. But.... ;-)

All of 'em were demrats.

19 posted on 06/29/2007 8:45:02 PM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Jesus is real, He will never fail...I will serve him now, and throughout all eternity! ))
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To: NerdDad

Hey fellow FReeper....How are you? ;-)


20 posted on 06/29/2007 8:46:18 PM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Jesus is real, He will never fail...I will serve him now, and throughout all eternity! ))
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