Extensive, often Racist Voter Intimidation by Teabaggers Reported in Minnesota

Minnesota media is reporting several instances of overzealous election challengers in polling places as the Republican Party of Minnesota ramps up its allegations of voter fraud. In several Minnesota precincts, reporters confirmed that GOP poll challengers have overstepped their bounds. ...

...The Associated Press reports that in Hennepin County there have been some tense conversations between election judges and GOP challengers who don't seem to understand the rules....

...the poll challengers were entering restricted areas and making challenges that are against the rules....

...The Minnesota Independent received a report this morning that a poll challenger at the Emerson school in the Loring Park area of Minneapolis was challenging Somali voters....

...The Star Tribune reports that in Shakopee a GOP challenger questioned the registration of a voter because he was "too young."...

...In Bloomington, the Star Tribune reports, an African American woman was asked by an election judge if she was a felon after she had already affirmed her oath. "I am an African American woman and I do believe this old Caucasian biddy was targeting me," she told the Minneapolis paper. "Things are getting out of hand!"...

..."Minnesota residents have reported sightings of a mobile billboard driving through Minneapolis affixed with Election Integrity Watch's poster of an individual in handcuffs, which is designed to suppress and intimidate voters,"...

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