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Nine people arrested last November for voter fraud in rural Madison county, 50 miles east of the state capitol, filed a lawsuit today alleging excessive force, intimidation, and false arrest. All nine are accused of altering absentee ballots in a school board race won buy a black woman over a white man. Attorney Benjamin Crump represents one of those arrested and says the arrests have nothing to do with voter fraud.

“The real fraud is in disenfranchising peoples right to vote and conducting investigations in which elderly women are harassed and intimidated with guns pointed at them, and coerced to provide statements. This doesn’t have anything to do with voter protection.  Again, I tell you, this is about voter suppression.”

Judy Crumitie is one of those facing four counts of voter fraud. “I was just trying to vote. Like Martin Luther King, and like the civil rights wanted us to do. But I was arrested by FDLE; they come into my house with a gun, and arrest me. I was scared. I didn’t know it was against the law to vote.”

The NAACP is involved in the case and points out that only absentee ballots for the black female candidate were scrutinized by law enforcement. They say votes for the white candidate should have also been examined.