This is how voter intimidation worked in 1966: White teenagers in Americus, Ga., harassed black citizens in line to vote, and the police refused to intervene. Black plantation workers in Mississippi had to vote in plantation stores, overseen by their bosses. Black voters in Choctaw County, Ala., had to hand their ballots directly to white election officials for inspection.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/opinion/voter-harassment-circa-2012.html?_r=1&src=rechp