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Angle Campaign Running Textbook Voter Suppression, Intimidation Campaign

Leading up to election day, Angle’s team goes all-out to suppress and intimidate voters, falsely allege fraud and break laws at polling places 

LAS VEGAS – While Sharron Angle continues to her all-out efforts to run from Nevada media and keep her extreme and dangerous agenda hidden from the voters of Nevada, her operatives are running a despicable voter suppression and intimidation campaign, taken straight from the classic Republican playbook of cycles past. Angle’s operatives are flooding polling places to intimidate voters, handing out literature to suppress the vote, and running ads encouraging minority voters to stay away from the polls altogether.

Equally appalling, Angle’s operatives are also pre-emptively issuing wild and truly-unbelievable claims of voter fraud and literally fabricating “incidents” they allege constitute irregularities – aided by their allies in the right-wing media – without any evidence to substantiate their claims whatsoever. 

The New York Times reports today that Tea Party activists are implementing the same textbook voter intimidation campaign as conservative Republicans did in 2006, making identical allegations and using the exact same tactics – even though the overwhelming majority of their efforts four years ago were proven to be baseless.

Angle’s goons are also breaking laws with their intimidation tactics at the polling places, handing out literature to potential voters that discourages them from participating and taking pictures of voters as they enter polling places – all in violation of laws that prevent electioneering within 100 feet of the polls. 

Despicably, pro-Angle forces are also airing fear-mongering ads, suggesting that minorities not participate in the election – ads that have been called un-American and were immediately denounced by all major party candidates in the state of Nevada except for Sharron Angle. They’re also circulating emails to their supporters making baseless claims of voter suppression by Democrats, all in a pre-emptive effort to cover up their own actions on the ground.

In fact, in an act that’s brazen even for a shameless Sharron Angle campaign, the fabricated pre-emptive claims of voter fraud are being circulated by the campaign’s general counsel, Cleta Mitchell. Mitchell is best known for her involvement in the Sharron Angle influence-peddling scandal in which Angle offered access to top Republican Senators in DC in exchange for Tea Party of Nevada candidate Scott Ashjian dropping out of the race. Mitchell boasted on a voicemail obtained by the Las Vegas Sun’s Jon Ralston:

“I have been practicing law a long time and let me tell you I can settle anything.”

“As Sharron Angle has demonstrated consistently throughout this campaign, she and her operatives are willing to do or say anything and deploy any strategy – no matter how despicable or dishonest – in pursuit of her extreme and dangerous agenda for Nevada,” said Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele. “Sharron Angle and her goons are running a textbook Republican campaign of voter intimidation and suppression, making completely unsubstantiated and wildly false allegations of fraud, all as a smokescreen to cover up their own sleazy and even illegal tactics to disenfranchise Nevadans whose voices they’d like to have silenced.”

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