asahi
August 21, 2018, 10:29am
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davidm:
Civil Rights Groups Target Majority-Black Georgia County Seeking to Shutter Most Polling Places – Mother Jones
These people are shameless. The reason being given is that the closing precincts are not ADA compliant and there isn’t time to.make them so. All of the precincts were open for last month’s GOP primary runoff. Was ADA compliance not a problem then?
Even the Republican nominee for governor, Brian Kemp, has spoken out against the closures.
Can’t they keep the precincts open and make arrangements for disabled voters to vote absentee, or to let them vote at the precincts that are compliant?
This is going to happen anywhere Republicans gain political control. They’ll identify places where they don’t get political support - usually poor and black/latino - and they’ll just remove the polling stations. And once they take away the vote…it won’t be long before they start taking away other rights. Welcome to the new Jim Crow.
davidm
August 21, 2018, 4:57pm
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One possible solution would be to arrange bussing to the polling places that are open. Of course that doesn’t solve the issue of long lines.
I’ve always thought that you should be able to go to any polling station in the state. They can print your ballot on demand.
That way, people can all go to where the lines are shortest. If busses pulls up, letting a couple hundred people out to go vote in at the nice polling place with no line, will the white people complain about having to wait?
Bricker:
When same-sex marriage had only minority public support, the liberal voices on this message board were almost unanimous in their disdain of deciding important issues by majority vote.
Fascinating to now to see the supposed fidelity to the majority. (Not the EC majority, mind you; that’s still the product of idiot voters too dumb to know who’s buttering their bread. But TOTAL voters, that’s what we should rely upon!)
Until the next time that those idiots do something liberals don’t like, of course.
Really? REALLY?
That’s truly pathetic. There is absolutely ZERO contradiction between the following two positions:
I mean, there’s not even an APPARENT contradiction. Did you post that shortly after undergoing dental surgery or something?
Bricker:
When same-sex marriage had only minority public support, the liberal voices on this message board were almost unanimous in their disdain of deciding important issues by majority vote.
Fascinating to now to see the supposed fidelity to the majority. (Not the EC majority, mind you; that’s still the product of idiot voters too dumb to know who’s buttering their bread. But TOTAL voters, that’s what we should rely upon!)
Until the next time that those idiots do something liberals don’t like, of course.
Nice effort, but I think Dershowitz and Giuliani are going to be keeping their flack jobs.
Bricker
August 22, 2018, 5:03pm
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Do you consider it a “matter of established fact?”
Because if my history with you is any indication, that’s a rock-solid confidence indicator, right there.
Bricker:
Do you consider it a “matter of established fact?”
Because if my history with you is any indication, that’s a rock-solid confidence indicator, right there.
Wow, you’ve been holding that zinger in your back pocket going on 12 years, and that was the Steve MB post you decided to spend it on? I hope it was worth it.
Bricker:
Do you consider it a “matter of established fact?”
Because if my history with you is any indication, that’s a rock-solid confidence indicator, right there.
…That’s a post from 2006 where the poster in question was wrong about something. It’s 2018. That’s honestly so pathetic it almost wraps around to being impressive again. Almost.
Bricker
August 22, 2018, 10:30pm
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So far as I recall, he’s ever admitted to error about that post. As long he he stands behind it, I’ll beat him with it.
I usually agree with you that it’s cool to bring up past predictions that are incorrect and whatever.
But come on man, that was 12 years ago.
NY Times Sunday Review on the History, Effects, and Aims of the Republican Vote Suppression Effort
Bottom line: Fewer votes equal greater GOP control.
Voters across the country are now realizing that they, too, have crossed into the twilight zone: citizens of America without full citizenship rights. The right to vote is central to American democracy. “It’s preservative of all rights,” as the Supreme Court said in its 1886 ruling in Yick Wo v. Hopkins. But chipping away at access to that right has been a central electoral strategy for Republicans.
Florida’s electoral malfeasance in the 2000 vote is infamous. But that election in St. Louis was also a disaster, and it taught the Republicans an important lesson: Block people of color from polling places by any means necessary. And it showed them, point by point, how to create a voter suppression road map that is paying dividends today.
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The Republicans’ response to this? Block people of color from the ballot box. Consider the brutal clarity of Paul Weyrich, a founder of the Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council, which eventually helped write voter suppression legislation that spread like a cancer across the country: “I don’t want everybody to vote,” he said in a 1980 speech to conservative preachers in Dallas. “Our leverage in the elections, quite candidly, goes up as the voting populace goes down.” The Republican Party learned that voter suppression, done ruthlessly and relentlessly, could deliver victory.
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The final and perhaps most important lesson from 2000 was to lie. Lie often. Say the lies loud; say them with pride. Lie over and over and over. Lie without shame. Lie until the truth is drowned out, dead. Lie until no amount of evidence could convince anyone otherwise. Lie until there is no other narrative.
Across U.S., polling stations are slowly disappearing
Not ID suppression, but suppression nonetheless.
The trend continues: This year alone, 10 counties with large black populations in Georgia closed polling spots after a white elections consultant recommended that they do so to save money. When the consultant suggested a similar move in Randolph County, pushback was enough to keep its nine polling places open.
Local officials across the country shuttered 868 polling places in the three years after the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling, according to a 2016 report from the Leadership Conference Education Fund, the research arm of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of 200 civil rights groups.
Arizona, Louisiana and Texas, the report said, “have all made alarming reductions in polling places.”
Officials in Florida might have used the tactic recently to target college students. A federal judge ruled in July that election officials, at the direction of Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott, “reveal(ed) a stark pattern of discrimination” by blocking early voting at the state’s college and university campuses.
Black senior citizens ordered off Georgia bus taking them to vote
Black Voters Matter had received permission in advance for the event at the senior center, Brown said. The event was originally intended to encourage seniors to vote, and when some of the seniors asked whether they could ride the bus to an early-voting location, Black Voters Matter agreed to take them.
But someone apparently saw the bus, painted with the words “The South is Rising Tour,” and called county government offices, Brown said. That led to the phone call from the county clerk to the senior center. When they were asked, the senior citizens agreed to leave the bus.
“It was discouraging that they weren’t able to vote,” said Evans, who was on the bus. “When they’re suppressing votes, they’re going to come up with any kind of excuse about what your problem is.”
Encouraging people to vote is political. Sure.
I saw that story yesterday. I don’t understand how the Director of a Senior Center has the authority to tell anyone to get off of a bus.
The whole thing sounds more clusterfucked than suppressive to me, but I’ve had a military career of “get on the bus / get off the bus” moments.
The Brickhead saves and savours a random post from 12 years ago? :eek: What does he do: print out all his SDMB exchanges, pin them to the wall, and masturbate to them?
No, he doesn’t do that. I had to remind him of my question regarding which children, precisely, should be allowed to die in order to maintain a level of ideological purity he finds acceptable when it comes to health insurance. I even gave him a choice of two. Instead of answering, he ran away. Twice.
The_Tooth:
No, he doesn’t do that. I had to remind him of my question regarding which children, precisely, should be allowed to die in order to maintain a level of ideological purity he finds acceptable when it comes to health insurance. I even gave him a choice of two. Instead of answering, he ran away. Twice.
I don’t see a contradiction here. Just because he hasn’t posted it, doesn’t mean he hasn’t had a “response”.