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KamaAina

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Thu Jun 9, 2016, 12:20 PM Jun 2016

Reports of Siskiyou County sheriff intimidating voters (xpost from GD)

By Damon Arthur of the Redding Record Searchlight
Updated: Yesterday 4:03 p.m.

... Attorney General’s Office representatives are in Siskiyou County today after reports Sheriff Jon Lopey has been intimidating residents of Hmong descent to keep them from voting in today’s election ...

Lori Shellenberger, the American Civil Liberties Union’s director of the California Voting Rights Project, said she was contacted last week by a representative of the Hmong community that residents were being intimidated by the Sheriff’s Office.

Shellenberger said the Sheriff’s Office set up a checkpoint outside a subdivision near Hornbrook and stopped cars being driven by Hmongs only and asked them whether they were registered to vote ...

Lopey was not available for comment Tuesday and has not returned a message left at his office ...


http://www.redding.com/news/local/Siskiyou-sheriff-accused-of-intimidating-voters-382134091.html?d=mobile

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