Report Details Bias at Voting Polls

Report Details Bias at Voting Polls

Excerpt from AP report on salon.com. If you're not a subscriber, try the Houston Chronicle link.

The 125-page report was to be released at a Washington, D.C. news conference on Tuesday. Among its findings:

--Polling places and voting hours in minority neighborhoods are routinely changed shortly before elections.

--Election officials were found to have illegally purged voter lists and refused to translate election materials for citizens who are not fluent in English.

--Voters and advocates complained to federal officials about unfair election practices more often between 1982 and 2004 than between 1965 and 1982, data compiled from Department of Justice records show.

Full Report Protecting Minority Voters