21.   Most of all, ruling parties know how to intimidate voters, particularly semiliterate rural voters acquainted with only one ruling party since independence.

22.   Nationalist thugs disrupted their rallies and intimidated potential voters.

23.   The fear is the police will be used to intimidate voters or to protect fraud.

24.   The observers said staff members of the outgoing president, Frederick Chiluba, had visited polling places and appeared to intimidate voters.

25.   The request drew a strong response from Spitzer, who charged that Vacco was trying to intimidate voters in heavily Democratic areas, particularly black and Hispanic voters.

26.   They say that in past elections, the Republicans have used their poll watchers at voting stations in black and Hispanic communities to intimidate minority voters.

27.   Opposition supporters said the police were sent by the government to intimidate voters.

28.   Police said they also started confiscating weapons from anti-independence militiamen and removing roadblocks set up to intimidate voters, Martin said.

29.   Participants testified about allegations that many black Florida voters were intimidated, harassed and prevented from voting.

30.   Pierre-Louis, of the rival Lavalas Political Organization, accused Celestin of using armed men to intimidate the voters.