June primary data out of three Georgia counties shows how Black voters can be underrepresented among those seeking to vote by mail and yet overrepresented among those who have their mail ballots rejected.
A shorter John Roberts
âThere isnât any racism here. The local registrars know that if they allow black people to vote there is no way a Republican will ever be elected again in the State of Georgia. They are just cheating to help the Republican party and everybody knows that isnât racism and it is always ok if you are a Republican protecting Republican office holders.â
It is painful to say that we in Georgia are used to this. Stacey Abrams knew it. We all know it.
Georgians, we need to be brave and go to our voting stations and vote in public.
You really just need to vote in overwhelming numbers.
Shameless LIE 
In 3 1/2 years, Iâve done much more for our Black population than Joe Biden has done in 43 years. Actually, he set them back big time with his Crime Bill, which he doesnât even remember. Iâve done more for Black Americans, in fact, than any President in U.S. history, with...
â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2020
Truth be toldâŚTrump has done much more damage politically, economically and to the health and well being of African Americans and other POC!
The South never went away. They sat in their failed states and chiselled away, nominating their incompetent grandchildren and getting revenge with every stroke of the pen. Let them starve, I say. They are over-represented as much as they under-perform.
Black voters submitted 24 percent of absentee ballots requests received by the county, but saw their ballots make up 38 percent of those that were later rejected.
The GOP explained that this is not racism, it is statistical proof that POC lack the ability to properly complete a mail in ballot. The only way to assure fair elections is to return to the glory days of literacy tests as a condition to voting.
Stacey Abrams and Amy KlobucharâŚyouâre up.
(Both of them are working on combating voter suppression)
This is a valuable article. Which begs for solutions. Fast.
Seems like if the whole world were nuked all at once the only things that would survive are roaches and Jim Crow.
Once againâŚAbrams and KlobucharâŚ
Where are the mikes in their faces?
Scroll down to âThe unpassable testâ in the following link!
Hereâs a couple of tests that Louisiana/Mississippi gave in order to help keep black folks from voting!
The State of Louisiana Literacy Test
(This test is to be given to anyone who cannot prove a fifth grade education.)
Do what you are told to do in each statement, nothing more, nothing less. Be careful as one
. wrong answer denotes failure of the test. You have 10 minutes to complete the test .
and from Mississippi!
IncomingâŚâItâs not our fault they donât have daddies around to teach them to read and therefore canât follow simple instructionsâŚâ
In Cobb County, a suburb of Atlanta, the gap between Black votersâ share of absentee requests and their share of rejected ballots was 14 percentage points. Black voters submitted 24 percent of absentee ballots requests received by the county, but saw their ballots make up 38 percent of those that were later rejected.
Anyone else watch Juries: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver?
Same thing with black jurors. Either a software program or another selection method weeds them out from getting a notice to serve on a jury. If they are summoned. They are usually weeded out during the selection process. A prosecuting attorney was on tape telling other prosecutors how to reject them without seeming to do on color alone.
On a side note, Danbury, Connecticut wasnât too happy with his coverage and renamed their sewage treatment plant after John Oliver over the week-end.
TBH, his commentary on Danbury was a little over the top.
I am absolutely NOT doubting this is taking place, however, how do the registrars know which voters are black with enough certainty to reject the ballots? Is there a racial identity question on the registration forms? Do registrars have access to drivers license pictures in the voterâs file when doing signature comparisons?
This seems like fairly vital information for making these charges. For that matter, how did the âvendor dataâ know the race of the voter?
I have that question as well.
However, as to the issue of rejecting signatures, it often comes down to whether the registrar of voters, or whoever is in charge, takes an absolutist position regarding such discrepancies as whether or not the middle initial is included. And how they treat other easily reconciled differences such as between womenâs married and birth names, etc.
In smaller towns, you might know by the return address (or are ballots separated before then?) or by the name, with some uncertainty. But I wouldnât be surprised if it were a handwriting thing. There are different social rules for how to construct a signature depending on who you are and what uses the signature will be put to (see, for example, that mess that trump puts on things).
Also, this article doesnât say (as far as I could tell) what percent of total signatures get rejected, only the fraction of rejected signatures attributable to each group. So it wouldnât take many outliers.
Kinda vitiates the rest of what you say. Not really cool.
Yâall should have heard Henry Wadeâs chief deputy at a continuing education course for prosecutors before Batson. I actually felt compelled to hiss him a few times during his presentation about keeping African-Americans, Jews (except in what he called money cases), teachers, and on and on, off juries.
Of course Wade, and his office, were comfortable cheating any which way. It didnât matter if they got reversed on appeal if theyâd gotten a conviction and maximum sentence first. Just like a correction on page 38 about a story that led page 1. Even before Batson this assistant dude had been called out in several reversals for racially biased cheating.
A few years later, I went to work in a small DAs office (3 ADAs), where my boss took seriously his oath to do justice. Refreshment for the soul. Still far too rare.
ET fix garbage syntax
Certain names are more likely to be black, others more likely to be white. When the same resumes are sent out under each type of name, the resume is more likely to be called when it is sent under a âwhiteâ name. Not a perfect match but some such pattern recognition would cause the result seen.