Georgia election board plots Jim Crow-like assault on black voting

[wire28]

Actively thinking of ways to keep people from voting in a democracy has to be one of the most despicable things one can do...

 

[Robbie3000]

Both sides they told me.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

They are trying to claim that they're not accessible to people with disabilities. I shyt you not.

Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County

"Local officials say they need to close seven polling places because they aren’t accessible to people with disabilities. The ACLU says that doesn’t make sense."

Election officials in a rural southwest Georgia county are defending a plan to suddenly close seven of the county’s nine polling places against allegations of racial discrimination, saying the ones it wants to close are not sufficiently accessible to people with disabilities.

"Randolph County, the site of the proposed changes, is more than 60 percent black, with a little over 30 percent of residents in poverty ― more than double the national level. The Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the election board earlier this week warning of a lawsuit because the proposed closures discriminated against black voters. Those voters, the group said, were less likely to own a car and would be required to walk over three hours to one of the two remaining polling locations because there is no public transportation to get them there. The ACLU also noted the voter makeup of one of the polling places officials wanted to close was 96.7 percent black."

They didn't mind all those issues when they just held the primaries. But suddenly they gotta close all those polling places for the general election? Hmmm....

This issue BETTER get Black folk and White sympathizers to the polls like crazy. The Republican candidate is the very one who has been orchestrating the attack on the Black vote. While the Democratic candidate is pretty much his polar opposite. Both of them are huge names in Georgia and absolutely polarizing, so the vote comes down 100% to turnout.

This is Brian Kemp, pure Athens good 'ol boy with no qualifications whose sole political achievement has been suppression of the Black vote




This is Stacey Abrams, BA Spelman, MA Texas, and a JD from Yale who has co-founded multiple companies and serves in the Georgia House of Representatives




How is this even a question in 2018?

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

They didn't mind all those issues when they just held the primaries. But suddenly they gotta close all those polling places for the general election? Hmmm....




This issue BETTER get Black folk and White sympathizers to the polls like crazy. The Republican candidate is the very one who has been orchestrating the attack on the Black vote. While the Democratic candidate is pretty much his polar opposite. Both of them are huge names in Georgia and absolutely polarizing, so the vote comes down 100% to turnout.

This is Brian Kemp, pure Athens good 'ol boy with no qualifications whose sole political achievement has been suppression of the Black vote




This is Stacey Abrams, BA Spelman, MA Texas, and a JD from Yale who has co-founded multiple companies and serves in the Georgia House of Representatives




How is this even a question in 2018?

shes a longhorn too?
Georgia needs to get her in or else

 

[Serious]

Actively thinking of ways to keep people from voting in a democracy has to be one of the most despicable things one can do...

States rights @DEAD7

 

[the cac mamba]

Actively thinking of ways to keep people from voting in a democracy has to be one of the most despicable things one can do...

republicans claim we're in the middle east to spread democracy while actively suppressing it in their own country

 

[88m3]

Is there a way we can bring back the full force of the VRA or something more strict?


Anyone?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Is there a way we can bring back the full force of the VRA or something more strict?


Anyone?

There's definitely no reason that we couldn't pass another one. It's obviously necessary. You just need the votes and a president who will sign it (or a veto-proof majority).

Voting rights are under assault nationwide. Here’s how to protect them.

It’s time to restore full power to the Voting Rights Act

 

[88m3]

There's definitely no reason that we couldn't pass another one. It's obviously necessary. You just need the votes and a president who will sign it (or a veto-proof majority).

Voting rights are under assault nationwide. Here’s how to protect them.

It’s time to restore full power to the Voting Rights Act

Thank you