DEERPARK – A group of 10 Chinese-Americans filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Deerpark Town Supervisor Gary Spears alleging that he filed a “baseless challenge” to their voter registrations resulting in investigations “attempting to burden their right to vote and intimidate them.”
The plaintiffs all live at 140 Galley Hill Road in Deerpark and are being represented by civil rights attorney Michael Sussman.
The suit seeks damages under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution claiming that Spears “engaged in group defamation against the 10 and other similarly-situated Chinese-Americans.”
Sussman said the supervisor filed a challenge because 30 of the residents, who are associated with the Buddhist school temple in his town, registered to vote.
“Is it equally suspicious when 30 ‘American’ college students register to vote? Of course not,” Sussman said.
He said would-be voters should be encouraged to cast ballots.
“Efforts to suppress voter turnout remind these young men and women of the society their families fled in China and are entirely unwelcome in our country,” Sussman said.
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