New court cases target ‘surveillance-and-intimidation campaigns’ at drop boxes for early ballots. One defendant was hit with 3 legal actions in 24 hours.
PHOENIX — The League of Women Voters of Arizona filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday alleging that an array of right-wing groups are trying to intimidate voters at ballot drop boxes in two Arizona counties.
“These surveillance-and-intimidation campaigns,” the lawsuit says, “are simply modern-day efforts to engage in illegal voter intimidation by forcing voters who want to cast their ballots by drop box to do so while being surveilled by vigilantes and under the threat that they will be baselessly accused of voter fraud.”
BREAKING 2nd federal lawsuit filed in Phoenix targeting right-wing groups accused of attempting to intimidate voters. READ https://t.co/IP7cwTNAHg pic.twitter.com/orHUiie22L
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The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to Jennings on Tuesday. The commission demands that Jennings’ group stop using the Clean Elections name by Thursday, or face legal action.
“Defendants Jennings and Clean Elections USA are scheming to baselessly accuse voters of being ‘mules’ and to ‘dox them (publicly reveal their personal information online),” the lawsuit says.
The result would be “unjustifiably exposing voters to harm to not only their reputations, but also their safety,” the lawsuit says