The Arizona Republic:
"'It would qualify as the most blatant form of voter intimidation I have encountered in my life in political campaigns in many states, even going back to the work I did in Mississippi in the 1960s,' said attorney Bartle Bull, who on that day was working as a poll watcher for the John McCain campaign.
The career attorneys working the case called it a 'slam dunk.' Nevertheless, political appointees in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department ultimately would kill most of the case, according to the commission's majority report."