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Michael Bryan reported on the misleading robo calls from The Flake campaign to Democratic voters in an attempt to suppress their vote, but over the weekend The Flake campaigned with the GOP voter suppression group Verify The Vote, the Arizona offshoot of True the Vote.
Press release from the Dr. Richard Carmona for U.S. Senate campaign:
Flake Visits Group with History of Latino Voter Suppression
Verify the Vote’s training video encourages voter challenges on illegal grounds
Congressman Jeff Flake campaigned in Tempe [Saturday] with "Verify the Vote," a group with a history of utilizing voter suppression and intimidation tactics against Latino voters in Arizona. The visit was reported by the Huffington Post after one of Verify the Vote's poll watchers tweeted a picture with Flake.
Verify the Vote is a local offshoot of "True the Vote," a right-wing group the non-partisan group Common Cause has called “a threat to the fundamental right to vote.”
The group's online training video includes several pieces of misinformation about the role of a poll observer. The video falsely tells poll watchers that:
Each of those statements are false.
“Jeff Flake visiting a group known for voter suppression only three days from Election Day is troubling,” said Carmona for Arizona communications director Andy Barr. “Verify the Vote has a history of intimidation and suppression of minority and low-income voters. Flake should be ashamed to associate with such a group."