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'''Tan Duc Nguyen''' (born 1973) was a two-time candidate for the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] in [[California]].  In 2004, he sought the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] nomination to run against incumbent [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Dana Rohrabacher]] in [[California's 46th congressional district]].  In 2006, he ran as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] against incumb(contracted; show full) deportation. The letter was received by registered Hispanic voters the weekend of October 15, 2006 and sent to the then-State Attorney General Bill Lockyer. On Monday, October 17, 2006 the California State Attorney General launched an investigation into the source of the letter. What was particularly alarming is that the Republican Party was linked with the campaign of former Congressman Curt Pringle who, on Election Day, had poll guards at voting booths in Hispanic neighborhoods warning them not to vote.
{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} One of the first Hispanic registered voters who came forward showing the letter he had received was Benny Diaz{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} who lived in Garden Grove, California in the Congressional District of Loretta Sanchez. </ref>[http://www.theliberaloc.com/pdf/theletter.pdf Spanish-language mailing linked to Tan Nguyen campaign]</ref> As translated in the press at the time, it read in part:

(contracted; show full)e FBI, the California State Attorney General and Secretary of State, federal election officials and monitors joined forces with a reluctant Orange County District Attorneys office headed by Anthony Ruckauckus to ensure that all registered voters were able to vote without intimidation. Orange County Registrar of Voters office kept voting locations opened beyond normal voting hours due to the influx of registered voters who came out to vote and had been standing in lines around neighborhood blocks for hours.
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On May 16, 2007, the California Department of Justice investigation determined there was no evidence that Nguyen's campaign had an intent to intimidate those legally entitled to vote. The investigation had found that the original draft of the letter (in English) had warned illegals and those with green cards against voting, but elsewhere had encouraged those with U.S. citizenship to vote.  The phrase "those with green cards" had then been translated into "emigrado," for the Spanish-language letter that was mailed; this had later been translated back into English as "immigrant"(contracted; show full)[[Category:Living people|Nguyen, Tan]]
[[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States|Nguyen, Tan]]
[[Category:American people of Vietnamese descent]]
[[Category:Vietnamese emigrants to the United States]]
[[Category:California Democrats]]
[[Category:California Republicans]]
[[Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni]]
[[Category:University of Minnesota alumni]]