“......two African-American poll watchers testified to the Commission that they were personally threatened by the Panthers. (These were black Republicans, so maybe that doesn’t count at Politico and the Washington Post, but you would think it might register with Thernstrom.)
Echoing Thernstrom, Politico makes the lawyerly claim that “no voters attested to being turned away.” Even if it were necessary to prove that voters were prevented from voting (and it’s not), the poll-watchers testified that voters approaching the polls promptly turned around and left upon seeing the menacing Panthers stationed out front.”
http://www.usccr.gov/NBPH/NBPH.htm
Maybe not clear that these were “black Republicans “ that turned away judging from this piece, but being a predominately black neighborhood raises the odds that they were black, regardless of affiliation.
Why would someone who agrees with them (aka Democrat voter)turn away?