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How a criminal investigation in Georgia set an ominous tone for African-American voters

The arrests of 12 school board officials and their political allies in Quitman, Ga., became a poster-child case among conservatives that voter fraud was a serious threat. But to the Quitman 10+2, the reasons for their arrests were simple. They were black candidates who won an election in the Deep South