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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Georgia Elections Board To Close 75% Of Black County's Polling Places" [View all]
To the Members of the Randolph County Board of Elections and Registration,
The ACLU of Georgia writes to express grave concern about your discriminatory proposal to eliminate over 75% of polling places (7 out of 9) on the eve of the November elections. These polling place closures will virtually guarantee lower voter turnout in a Black Belt county that is predominantly African-American (60%), and will completely prevent rural voters without transportation (again, disproportionately African-American) from voting in person on Election Day.
The timing of your proposal is also suspicious and calls to question your true motives behind this proposal. These are the exact same polling places used in the primary and primary run-off earlier this year. It makes no sense to suddenly reduce the number of polling places for this Novembers election, which will see far higher voter turnout than in the primaries or the primary run-off. Your proposal has also been plagued by procedural irregularities that cast further doubt about the real motivation behind these proposals.
Making it disproportionately harder for African American voters to cast a ballotespecially when done so deliberatelyis a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
We demand that you reject this proposal or you will face potential legal liability
The ACLU of Georgia writes to express grave concern about your discriminatory proposal to eliminate over 75% of polling places (7 out of 9) on the eve of the November elections. These polling place closures will virtually guarantee lower voter turnout in a Black Belt county that is predominantly African-American (60%), and will completely prevent rural voters without transportation (again, disproportionately African-American) from voting in person on Election Day.
The timing of your proposal is also suspicious and calls to question your true motives behind this proposal. These are the exact same polling places used in the primary and primary run-off earlier this year. It makes no sense to suddenly reduce the number of polling places for this Novembers election, which will see far higher voter turnout than in the primaries or the primary run-off. Your proposal has also been plagued by procedural irregularities that cast further doubt about the real motivation behind these proposals.
Making it disproportionately harder for African American voters to cast a ballotespecially when done so deliberatelyis a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
We demand that you reject this proposal or you will face potential legal liability
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/08/georgia-elections-board-close-75-black
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What next Georgia? Work without pay? You want to make the South great again?
DemocracyMouse
Aug 2018
#8
Fire up the free rides and then fire the members of the Georgia Elections Board. Shameful.
Vinca
Aug 2018
#26