Alabama Editorials Equality and Fraud News Clipping

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LDF Attorney
- Lani Guinier
Organization
- NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc.
Matter
- Bozeman v. Lambert
Case
- Bozeman v. Lambert
U.S. state
- Alabama
Collection
- Case Files
Creator
- Lani Guinier & Others
Taxonomy
Identifier
- a6fc3824-ef92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873

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Case Files, Bozeman & Wilder Working Files. Alabama Editorials Equality and Fraud News Clipping, 1982. a6fc3824-ef92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/2fd40e7d-ccbf-4338-96d7-01876dc38228/alabama-editorials-equality-and-fraud-news-clipping. Accessed April 06, 2025.

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SA?URDAY, JANUARY 16, 1982

0[e lllonlgomcrp SDrcrlisrr ALABAMA JOURNAL

editorials
Equality and fraud

Th eMessenger
Marion

Alabama

Serrcral months a3o, we trot€
an cdttorid abot hor emY it
was to r€gittzr to vole in PertY
Conttty. We noted thet anYone

curH rcgirtcr lf tbcy hd e So
cial Securlty nurnbcr (m card
necessary), two refcrences
rhich were mt cheded on and
varion other lnformation any'
mc over |s ctuld supply. We

even dlseovered thst resldence
requlrcnrenb hed beca rwohed
by the Justicc Departmant.

19@ ls an electiut ycar ln Per'
ry County. Cormty comml$ion
scatr, the probrte Judge'r offlce
and the dldrlct lttdgcll porition
ane romc of theJobe PerrY @un-
ty votor rlll vote oo ttir Yeer'
But rcldatificrtion har been

approncd hcnc by thcJurdcc De
patmart ad dl vot m mult te
fdcattfy tbcrnrcls.
lto fqrr hec Ptbllrhed

each tcGh e delly rchodtlc of
rhtc tlc bocd ol roilrtrerr
rtll mGGt end lt lr our Icnant
hope thd t ddt rlll do tlclr
&ty rnd rAacoUty

Wo ara WGt, holsvu, rith
ttG rwnt cottlcttm ol tlo vtt-
l{ rlst! rc{[tldl lrom DGtt!-
bchU Plctcar County. Cor
vlctd of votl[ lrrd rcre Julia
Wlld6 end tlrClc Bman.
Ihey roro cootlcttd ln r4aratc
trialr ln l9?0, id rlter crheut-
lng appcab tilci rent ell the
ray to th Supranc Court; t[cy
rcre s€nt€octd to prtroo for flve
rnd loor ycart, rcePcetlvely.

Their crimcr loclded votlng
more than once, dcPoelting more
than one sbsentec ballot and
carting Utbgat or frardulant
bellotr in r l,9JE electlon. The
ctllectlve nirycar priut ren-
tffi brougB rgelnrt thc lom-

en irrclirded convictlonr of per-
suedirg elderly Pldenr County
voters on how to vo e.

Voting fraud is a erlme and

our Supreme Court har upbeld it.
The sentenc€s levled agalnst
these two women are great, but
It further embamasseg the work
of one local and one nationally
known civil righh 8roup, which
these women represented.

Mrs. lVilder was prcrldent of
the Pichens County Voter's
league and Mn. Bozenran was
Precldent of the local NAACP
c{rapter tn Plekens County. We

flnd lt etrange that rePrrcsent'

atlves of theee two gxouPs,

whlch have worted co hsd ln
the prst !o have EQUAL votlttg
rlghtr bave hed pcople rePre
sentlng them who wottld trY !o
malntaln an UNEQUAL votlng
atmcpheie.

Ttre Soutbern Chrlrtlan lead'
errhtp Conference (SCrc) Prcs-
idcnt Rev. Joreph lowerY eald,

"If th€le woman go !o lail, Jus'
ttce will be lynehed . . . lf these

somen go to Jail beceusc theY

arq blac* and God made them
black, then God'r to be
l1mched."

After golng through thrce
yean of appeals and Solng ell
the way to Oe SuPrcrnc Court,
we're sult God has done ell He

can for thece curvictcd felonc.

Our only hope lr Utst when Pcrry
County voterr to tic Polls this
year they wlll go rith a clcar
eonselence, swayed by nothing
more than thc usual amount of
persuasion and advertlsement.

. Our prayer lr that the bcst men

mey wln.

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