A taste of Prager U

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honorentheos wrote:The way I understand it, the board only has two current members since one stepped down and they may postpone the vote.

The board voted down the proposal and fired the consultant who proposed it.

CUTHBERT, Ga. —Some residents of this town are old enough to remember when government officials would intimidate and punish black residents for trying to exercise the right to vote. Others, having come of age when an African American man was president of the United States, thought the days of such brazen discrimination were long past.

But nearly everyone saw a recent proposal to close more than two-thirds of the polling places in Randolph County, a predominantly black community in southwestern Georgia, as a reminder of the lingering traces of the state’s history of voter suppression.

After a week of ferocious pushback — including two packed town-hall meetings in which residents berated local elections officials, as well as warning letters, threats of lawsuits by civil rights groups and national media coverage — county officials fired the consultant who came up with the plan and signaled that they would vote it down at a meeting Friday.

The Randolph County Board of Elections voted down the proposal to close seven of its nine polling locations, saying no changes would be made. The meeting Friday of the two-member board lasted no more than five minutes.

“In the United States, the right to vote is sacred,” the board said in a statement, adding that displays of interest and concern have been “overwhelming and . . . an encouraging reminder that protecting the right to vote remains a fundamental American principle.” It said the board’s only interest was in “making sure elections in Randolph County are fair and efficient.”

Activists and residents applauded the action and said they would continue to meet and share information to make sure their voting rights were not eroded.

In an interview Thursday ahead of the board’s vote, Tommy Coleman, the Randolph County attorney, said: “I’m quite sure the Board of Elections didn’t intend to disenfranchise any voters. . . . This morphed into something that wasn’t their intention.”

Coleman sent a letter to the consultant, Michael Malone, advising him to “take no further action or carry out any services on behalf of the Board of Elections.” Malone had come up with the plan to close the seven of nine polling places in the county, saying the facilities did not comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Residents and activists remain wary and vowed to show up in force to stare down the Board of Elections for even entertaining such a proposal, less than three months before a crucial midterm election in which Democrat Stacey Abrams is a strong contender to become Georgia’s — and the nation’s — first black female governor.

African Americans also are skeptical because Brian Kemp, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, also is the secretary of state and chief elections official in the state. Kemp, who has supported and enforced tougher voter registration and identification laws, has dismissed calls to step down from overseeing his own election.

It did not help that Malone was on a shortlist of referrals that the secretary of state’s office sent to Randolph County officials, who needed someone to step in and run their elections after the county supervisor quit in the spring. Malone, who has contributed to Kemp’s campaign, oversaw the May primary and last month’s runoff elections.

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I must've missed it somewhere:

How many polling stations have been closed across Georgia?

How many polling stations have been opened across Georgia?

Where are they all located?

How many are there in total?

How many Black voters have been registered as compared to 2016?

- Doc
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honorentheos wrote:
honorentheos wrote:The way I understand it, the board only has two current members since one stepped down and they may postpone the vote.

The board voted down the proposal and fired the consultant who proposed it.

CUTHBERT, Ga. —Some residents of this town are old enough to remember when government officials would intimidate and punish black residents for trying to exercise the right to vote. Others, having come of age when an African American man was president of the United States, thought the days of such brazen discrimination were long past.

But nearly everyone saw a recent proposal to close more than two-thirds of the polling places in Randolph County, a predominantly black community in southwestern Georgia, as a reminder of the lingering traces of the state’s history of voter suppression.

After a week of ferocious pushback — including two packed town-hall meetings in which residents berated local elections officials, as well as warning letters, threats of lawsuits by civil rights groups and national media coverage — county officials fired the consultant who came up with the plan and signaled that they would vote it down at a meeting Friday.

The Randolph County Board of Elections voted down the proposal to close seven of its nine polling locations, saying no changes would be made. The meeting Friday of the two-member board lasted no more than five minutes.

“In the United States, the right to vote is sacred,” the board said in a statement, adding that displays of interest and concern have been “overwhelming and . . . an encouraging reminder that protecting the right to vote remains a fundamental American principle.” It said the board’s only interest was in “making sure elections in Randolph County are fair and efficient.”

Activists and residents applauded the action and said they would continue to meet and share information to make sure their voting rights were not eroded.

In an interview Thursday ahead of the board’s vote, Tommy Coleman, the Randolph County attorney, said: “I’m quite sure the Board of Elections didn’t intend to disenfranchise any voters. . . . This morphed into something that wasn’t their intention.”

Coleman sent a letter to the consultant, Michael Malone, advising him to “take no further action or carry out any services on behalf of the Board of Elections.” Malone had come up with the plan to close the seven of nine polling places in the county, saying the facilities did not comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Residents and activists remain wary and vowed to show up in force to stare down the Board of Elections for even entertaining such a proposal, less than three months before a crucial midterm election in which Democrat Stacey Abrams is a strong contender to become Georgia’s — and the nation’s — first black female governor.

African Americans also are skeptical because Brian Kemp, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, also is the secretary of state and chief elections official in the state. Kemp, who has supported and enforced tougher voter registration and identification laws, has dismissed calls to step down from overseeing his own election.

It did not help that Malone was on a shortlist of referrals that the secretary of state’s office sent to Randolph County officials, who needed someone to step in and run their elections after the county supervisor quit in the spring. Malone, who has contributed to Kemp’s campaign, oversaw the May primary and last month’s runoff elections.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ill-f ... spartandhp

So the secretary of state, Kemp, is the Republican candidate who will be running in the upcoming election. It was his office that recommended a short list of consultants which included Malone, who recommended this plan. Malone oversaw the last two major election processes in this county, a Primary and a run-off, during which he apparently did NOT recommend closing any polling places. But this time, when the person who recommended him and whose campaign he has contributed to was running for the first time against a black female Democrat, he wanted to close seven of the nine polling locations.

Huh. Small world.
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I must've missed it somewhere:

How many polling stations have been closed across Georgia?

How many polling stations have been opened across Georgia?

Where are they all located?

How many are there in total?

How many Black voters have been registered as compared to 2016?

- Doc

You didn't miss it. It's just being ignored for the rock toss into the bushes that it is to distract from the activities of the Republican candidate for Governor who is the sitting Secretary of State.
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You guys are hilarious. You DO realize this is a Governor's race, right?

- Doc
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Lemmie wrote:So the secretary of state, Kemp, is the Republican candidate who will be running in the upcoming election. It was his office that recommended a short list of consultants which included Malone, who recommended this plan. Malone oversaw the last two major election processes in this county, a Primary and a run-off, during which he apparently did NOT recommend closing any polling places. But this time, when the person who recommended him and whose campaign he has contributed to was running for the first time against a black female Democrat, he wanted to close seven of the nine polling locations.

Huh. Small world.

Yep.

Even worst, though, is that the same consultant who was fired in relation to the Rudolph County incident had already been successful in getting other counties in Georgia to close polling stations. And surprise, surprise, the majority of those affected were in majority black precincts.

It's amazing that in the 21st Century we can have a Secretary of State of Georgia direct a consultant to look for polling stations that could be closed who targets precincts with large black voter populations, comes up with the idea that they can claim non-compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and shut them down in the same year the Secretary of State is running as the Republican candidate for Governor against the first female black candidate from a major party.

If it were a script for an evening TV drama, there would have been eyerolls at how ham fisted the writers were being with the major plot points.
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:You DO realize this is a Governor's race, right?

- Doc

Yup. And you realize the Republican candidate is the current and active Secretary of State who directed the consultant to seek out polling stations to close who has been targeting heavy black precincts as well as developing the scheme to claim they weren't ADA compliant in order to get them shut down quickly in advance of the Gubernatorial election where said SoS will be facing the first female black candidate for Governor, right? The same SoS who has been widely accused of purging the voting rolls in ways that discriminate against minority voters, too, right? You're right on top of that, but are cool with it, too, right?
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I love that you think Randolph county is somehow a political powerhouse in Georgia politics and the Governor's race will somehow rest on the few thousand people impacted by the decision to close the stations because they don't comply with the ADA, even though they could, you know, mail in their ballots, or go to a polling station.

“F” disabled people, amiright?

Regardless, their democracy seems to be working. The stations won't be closed because of the backlash, and Randolph county's massive swing vote will be counted. The Left certainly got a lot of racial political traction out this one. :rolleyes:

- Doc
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:“F” disabled people, amiright?
By your logic couldn't those disabled people just do mail-in ballots? I'm really not understanding your apparent frustration over this topic, Doc. Is it that you don't see the suspicious nature in the timing or selection of the closing of these locations? Wouldn't it make more sense to close/repair/remodel them just after the election as opposed to just before? I generally take you as a guy that wants to see more voter engagement, not less... so this is kind of a weird look for you.
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Xenophon wrote:
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:“F” disabled people, amiright?
By your logic couldn't those disabled people just do mail-in ballots? I'm really not understanding your apparent frustration over this topic, Doc. Is it that you don't see the suspicious nature in the timing or selection of the closing of these locations? Wouldn't it make more sense to close/repair/remodel them just after the election as opposed to just before? I generally take you as a guy that wants to see more voter engagement, not less... so this is kind of a weird look for you.


Of course disabled people can do mail-in ballots. I'm underscoring their crass use of Black people as a political tool. They don't really care about them until it becomes convenient to virtue signal their totally-not-racist selves, just like they had no idea why the polling stations were being closed. And underscoring it even further, not-a-one can answer my questions which definitely underscores their full of crap opinions on the matter.

In fact, I guarantee you if I were to isolate each one of those cracker assed crackers before posting this they couldn't tell you the name of either Gubanatorial candidate. It's just silly, kind of like how a certain moderator totally has Nigerian neighbors therefore not-a-racist. Does anyone take all their handwringing seriously?

- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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