Mississippi: Noxubee County voter-intimidation case enters second week
The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports: A black Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee official said she was going to follow her own law in counting absentee ballots during a 2003 primary election, a white candidate's son testified Monday.
"I was not allowed to make challenges," said Richard Heard, whose father was a candidate for county sheriff.
In the first lawsuit of its kind in the United States, the Department of Justice is accusing black political leaders in majority-black Noxubee County of discriminating against white voters.
A trial on the lawsuit is in its second week in U.S. District Court in Jackson. District Judge Tom S. Lee will decide the case.
The Justice Department is still presenting its side. -- Absentee vote count questioned - The Clarion-Ledger