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by sidewndr46 16 days ago
Elections are not private. I don't see how someone could stop me from voting. If they do that is just kidnapping, threats of violence, etc.
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> Elections are not private.

Who said they were?

> I don't see how someone could stop me from voting. If they do that is just kidnapping, threats of violence, etc.

Section 131(b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 states that “[n]o person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose” for any candidate for federal office.[1]

[1] https://journals.law.harvard.edu/crcl/what-is-voter-intimida...

right, and that shouldn't be prosecuted under it's own statue. Threats of violence should always be illegal