Discussion: Majority-Black Georgia County Blocks Proposal To Shutter Most Of Its Polling Sites

A Georgia county’s board of elections on Friday voted down a proposal to shutter seven of its nine polling sites over concerns that doing so would disenfranchise the area’s majority-black population.
And that people might perceive us as the racist slime we are because we didn’t dog whistle it

Thank goodness for the press exposure
Sunshine is a good disinfectant

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Glad to see this. I am tired of being shocked by outright voter suppression. This has to end in November.

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They knew they would lose in court.

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Unfortunately, with Brett Kavanaugh, it will not end and states will end up spending resources that they don’t have going to court, which is what the right counts on.

Sort of OT, but something that occurred to me: Michael Cohen doesn’t want a pardon with the “taint” of Trump. But Kavanaugh is just fine with that taint.

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Methinks that consultant was a plant.

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Hard to conclude he was independent.

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The companion article “Georgia Officials Scrap Plan To Cut Most Polling Places In Majority Black County” says the County knew the polling places were noncompliant and “entered a settlement agreement [with the DOJ] in 2012 promising to fix the violations in three years,” an agreement the County obviously breached. The consultant then uses the county’s failure to comply with the settlement agreement as the pretext for closing the polling places. Fortunately, Sessions has reminded us that from the day he took control of the DOJ he has been diligent about protecting the rights of the American people, so he will be on top of this to fashion an appropriate penalty against Randolph County.

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This kind of thing would be a trigger for pre-clearance in the old days. Good thing there’s no racism anymore.

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That wouldn’t surprise me at all.

We’re fortunate to live in a time when the Supreme Court has advanced judicial thinking into the postmodern era and can now fashion opinions around the precept that no objective reality exists, and that there are no objective moral values.

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Just because I saw this SNL clip on Black Jeopardy and this is a Discussion about black folks and this shows sometimes whites and blacks can agree. Yikes the next one that came up has ck louis! Interesting as that CK one was probably also the least funny of the slew of them I watch.

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Doesn’t even matter if he really was; he acted like one.

In April the County contacted SOS Kemp’s office because they urgently needed an elections supervisor (not sure what happened to the previous one) and were given three names of certified persons. His contract did not include provisions for shuttering precincts, just for looking for ways to save money.

In July he donated to the Kemp campaign.

He could not provide any evidence that the precincts he proposed closing were in violation of ADA laws. In fact, saying that the local polling station is not ADA certified and then asking disabled rural voters without a car to travel more than ten miles to a polling station instead is absolutely laughable.

Most importantly, he was only hired to fill in while a permanent elections supervisor was hired, and they’ve done that, so it took literally one minute of meeting time before he was fired. To be fair it could be that his monthly contract overlapped with a recent hire, but in a any case, they didn’t even need to deliberate before showing him the door.

This very well may not be a conspiracy, just a case of a Kemp supporter doing what Kemp would have wanted him to do, because sharing that disdain for voting rights (especially of certain people) is at least part of why he’s a Kemp supporter in the first place.

Or he may have been simply a shortsighted bureaucrat overly focused on the business end who got righteously pulled up short by the democratic institutions of press and elected oversight.

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Thanks to everyone part of the “overwhelming” “interest & concern” the board received. You’re the heroes of this era.

Has Kris K. Kobach relocated to Georgia?

That’s an insult to taints.

Kavanaugh appears to be so thoroughly covered in fecal matter already the trump layer wouldn’t make much difference if it weren’t for the trump black light effect.