The test for the crime of "voter intimidation" cannot be the subjective outcry of some random human. It has to be a bit more objective than that, Lonestar...else what is to prevent me from claiming I am "intimidated" by the chick on line in front of me?
Are you tellling me that when a person states he is intimidated, that it's subjective? Especially when it's back up by other eyewitnesses namely Chris Hill and Bartle Bull. Both of whom gave testimony during the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearings.
Part of Hill's testimony:
"THERNSTROM: But otherwise, did you see anybody at the polling place who obviously intended to vote, and didnÂ’t end up voting because of the presence of the New Black Panther Party members?
HILL: It was two women and a gentleman….They stopped right at the corner of the driveway, circular drive, where I was standing on the phone, and they said, ‘What’s going on?’ Truthfully, I didn’t really have a good answer for them…But at that exact moment in time, those people were not going near that doorway, and ma’am, I’m not as well versed as you are in these civil rights issues, but they were intimidated."
And Bull's:
"BULL: One of them was waving a baton like that, slapping against his hand, pointing at people. And several people – I was more or less at the end of the driveway, and several people began to walk up the driveways, saw these guys, and then went back and didn’t go on to vote.
QUESTION: Did the individuals that you saw turn around, those were people that you believed were coming to vote?
BULL: Oh, yes, yes. ThatÂ’s the only reason you walk along that long block on the pavement, and then go in the long driveway. And several walked in, saw this at the door, and walked back out the drive."