A raid this month seized 45,000 voter registration applications, most of them from black voters.
Patriot Majority USA, a progressive advocacy group, is accusing the Republican vice presidential nominee of suppressing voter registration in a new advertising campaignlaunched on Saturday.
The democratic-leaning group accuses Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) of using state police to rig the election in his favor.
The advertisements will air on black radio stations, online and in print with black newspapers in the state, according to The Washington Post.
“You are leading a government attack against your own citizens,” a man says in the ad.
The accusations follow a raid by the state police on the Indiana Voter Registration Project offices on Oct. 4, a week before the state’s voter registration deadline, following claims of strange registration applications. Police seized computers, cell phones and thousands of voter registration applications.
Craig Varoga, the president of Patriot Majority USA, estimates that 45,000 people may not be able to vote on Nov. 8 because their applications were seized. Most of the disenfranchised are African American, he said.
“Mike Pence has a well oiled political machine that is using the Indiana State Police to suppress African American votes and violate the Constitutional rights of tens of thousands of Hoosiers,” said Varoga in a statement. “This is not only voter suppression at its worst, it is an insult to all of the honest troopers in the state police, and to law-enforcement officials across the country, who disapprove of wasting precious crime-fighting resources on partisan witch hunts that further harm relations between police officers and minority communities.”
The group also claims that state police officers did not allow employees to film the raid, handcuffed a black male employee and denied him the right to speak with an attorney.
Pence spokesman Matt Lloyd denied the allegations, calling them “completely false and absurd.”
More: Mike Pence Used State Police To Suppress Voter Registration In Indiana, Advocacy Group Claims
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Patriot Majority USA, a progressive advocacy group, is accusing the Republican vice presidential nominee of suppressing voter registration in a new advertising campaignlaunched on Saturday.
The democratic-leaning group accuses Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) of using state police to rig the election in his favor.
The advertisements will air on black radio stations, online and in print with black newspapers in the state, according to The Washington Post.
“You are leading a government attack against your own citizens,” a man says in the ad.
The accusations follow a raid by the state police on the Indiana Voter Registration Project offices on Oct. 4, a week before the state’s voter registration deadline, following claims of strange registration applications. Police seized computers, cell phones and thousands of voter registration applications.
Craig Varoga, the president of Patriot Majority USA, estimates that 45,000 people may not be able to vote on Nov. 8 because their applications were seized. Most of the disenfranchised are African American, he said.
“Mike Pence has a well oiled political machine that is using the Indiana State Police to suppress African American votes and violate the Constitutional rights of tens of thousands of Hoosiers,” said Varoga in a statement. “This is not only voter suppression at its worst, it is an insult to all of the honest troopers in the state police, and to law-enforcement officials across the country, who disapprove of wasting precious crime-fighting resources on partisan witch hunts that further harm relations between police officers and minority communities.”
The group also claims that state police officers did not allow employees to film the raid, handcuffed a black male employee and denied him the right to speak with an attorney.
Pence spokesman Matt Lloyd denied the allegations, calling them “completely false and absurd.”
More: Mike Pence Used State Police To Suppress Voter Registration In Indiana, Advocacy Group Claims
Whoa, this sounds serious! This sounds like a federal offense! We shall see...
