Georgia wants to close polls in black areas.

[Penelope]

Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County

Local officials say they need to close seven polling places because they aren’t accessible to people with disabilities. The ACLU says that doesn’t make sense.

Election officials in a rural southwest Georgia county are defending a plan to suddenly close seven of the county’s nine polling places against allegations of racial discrimination, saying the ones it wants to close are not sufficiently accessible to people with disabilities.

Randolph
County, the site of the proposed changes, is more than 60 percent
black, with a little over
30 percent of residents in poverty ― more than double the national level. The
Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the
election board earlier this week warning of a lawsuit because the proposed
closures discriminated against black voters. Those voters, the group said, were
less likely to own a car and would be required to walk over three hours to one
of the two remaining polling locations because there is no public
transportation to get them there. The ACLU also noted the voter makeup of one
of the polling places officials wanted to close was 96.7 percent black.

Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County | HuffPost

Fix them so they are all ADA compliant.

 

[JLW]

I hate this shit. Just let people vote for heaven's sake.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

They better allow those Trump voters to get to the polls!

 

[Sunni Man]

Good for the state of Georgia looking out for the interests and welfare of its minority citizens!! ....

 

[Penelope]

Good for the state of Georgia looking out for the interests and welfare of its minority citizens!! ....

No they are going to close them polls not ADA them.

 

[Penelope]

They better allow those Trump voters to get to the polls!

Don't you worry about the trump voters, white people who make over 150 grand a years, and those who don't know any better, the "poorly educated" he called them.

 

[protectionist]

Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County

Local officials say they need to close seven polling places because they aren’t accessible to people with disabilities. The ACLU says that doesn’t make sense.

Election officials in a rural southwest Georgia county are defending a plan to suddenly close seven of the county’s nine polling places against allegations of racial discrimination, saying the ones it wants to close are not sufficiently accessible to people with disabilities.

Randolph
County, the site of the proposed changes, is more than 60 percent
black, with a little over
30 percent of residents in poverty ― more than double the national level. The
Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the
election board earlier this week warning of a lawsuit because the proposed
closures discriminated against black voters. Those voters, the group said, were
less likely to own a car and would be required to walk over three hours to one
of the two remaining polling locations because there is no public
transportation to get them there. The ACLU also noted the voter makeup of one
of the polling places officials wanted to close was 96.7 percent black.

Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County | HuffPost

Fix them so they are all ADA compliant.

Hate to rain on your parade, but this seems like a thread that might have had some significance before they started MAIL VOTING.

 

[toobfreak]

Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County.

No harm no foul. Dem Po Black folk aints gots dem no voter IDs anyway!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

democrats will make sure the polling places: Cemeteries and INS, stay open 24/7/365

 

[Missourian]

Fix them so they are all ADA compliant.

Another dingbat that doesn't have a clue.

That's the responsibly of the county, not the state.

We just went though this...and the county courthouse got a brand new concrete wheelchair ramp...paid for out of the county coffers.

 

[protectionist]

democrats will make sure the polling places: Cemeteries and INS stay open 24/7/365

As well as the tunnels under the Mexican border.

 

[mudwhistle]

Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County

Local officials say they need to close seven polling places because they aren’t accessible to people with disabilities. The ACLU says that doesn’t make sense.

Election officials in a rural southwest Georgia county are defending a plan to suddenly close seven of the county’s nine polling places against allegations of racial discrimination, saying the ones it wants to close are not sufficiently accessible to people with disabilities.

Randolph
County, the site of the proposed changes, is more than 60 percent
black, with a little over
30 percent of residents in poverty ― more than double the national level. The
Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the
election board earlier this week warning of a lawsuit because the proposed
closures discriminated against black voters. Those voters, the group said, were
less likely to own a car and would be required to walk over three hours to one
of the two remaining polling locations because there is no public
transportation to get them there. The ACLU also noted the voter makeup of one
of the polling places officials wanted to close was 96.7 percent black.

Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County | HuffPost

Fix them so they are all ADA compliant.

I know this is BS........blacks usually have a Cadillac parked outside of their one bedroom shacks even in the worst neighborhoods.

 

[justinacolmena]

Local officials say they need to close seven polling places because they aren’t accessible to people with disabilities. The ACLU says that doesn’t make sense.

Election officials in a rural southwest Georgia county are defending a plan to suddenly close seven of the county’s nine polling places against allegations of racial discrimination, saying the ones it wants to close are not sufficiently accessible to people with disabilities.

Randolph
County, the site of the proposed changes, is more than 60 percent
black, ...

There's always a "gentlemen's club" in that part of the country. The officials who do those things tend to be "straight Republicans," and the Democrats in those parts are the Dixie Democrat Ku Klux Klan white nationalist wing of the party.

Assuming they even get to the polls, who are the blacks even supposed to vote for?

The rest of us, who aren't exactly members of the "club," don't have any better options, either.

 

[Doc1]

Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County

Local officials say they need to close seven polling places because they aren’t accessible to people with disabilities. The ACLU says that doesn’t make sense.

Election officials in a rural southwest Georgia county are defending a plan to suddenly close seven of the county’s nine polling places against allegations of racial discrimination, saying the ones it wants to close are not sufficiently accessible to people with disabilities.

Randolph
County, the site of the proposed changes, is more than 60 percent
black, with a little over
30 percent of residents in poverty ― more than double the national level. The
Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the
election board earlier this week warning of a lawsuit because the proposed
closures discriminated against black voters. Those voters, the group said, were
less likely to own a car and would be required to walk over three hours to one
of the two remaining polling locations because there is no public
transportation to get them there. The ACLU also noted the voter makeup of one
of the polling places officials wanted to close was 96.7 percent black.

Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County | HuffPost

Fix them so they are all ADA compliant.

So who pays for the changes made? Here's what will happen, you can mandate the changes but the sites sponsoring the Polling on election will simply stop having it on their property. You people need to think this shit through and stop with knee jerk bullshit.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Odds on the polls stay open.

 

[depotoo]

First, it isn’t Georgia doing it. It is the Randolph county Elections Board suggesting it, due to 7 of the 9 polling places being ada non-compliant.
Second, this county has 7300 people, of which 20% are under 18. 62% Black and Clinton took the county by 11% at 55% vs 44% for Trump. The elections board members are one Democrat and one Republican.

So, now people can make up all the stories they want, but based on some facts.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Leave the polls open and hire some porters to haul the incapacitated and their chairs up the steps, OK?

 

[Preacher]

They better allow those Trump voters to get to the polls!

Don't you worry about the trump voters, white people who make over 150 grand a years, and those who don't know any better, the "poorly educated" he called them.

My mother has a masters degree and lol never made over 150k a year and she voted for President Trump.

 

[Penelope]

They better allow those Trump voters to get to the polls!

Don't you worry about the trump voters, white people who make over 150 grand a years, and those who don't know any better, the "poorly educated" he called them.

My mother has a masters degree and lol never made over 150k a year and she voted for President Trump.

Well good for her as a man in her position might make over 150k and the poorly educated. By the way just because she has a masters degree does not mean she is "intelligent".

 

[Penelope]

First, it isn’t Georgia doing it. It is the Randolph county Elections Board suggesting it, due to 7 of the 9 polling places being ada non-compliant.
Second, this county has 7300 people, of which 20% are under 18. 62% Black and Clinton took the county by 11% at 55% vs 44% for Trump. The elections board members are one Democrat and one Republican.

So, now people can make up all the stories they want, but based on some facts.

An elections board decided not to close all but 2 polling places in a majority-black county in Georgia - CNN

"This is a victory, but by no means should anyone relax. All of this happened under the leadership of Brian Kemp," Dubose said. "We need to follow the trail all the way back and search out all of these attempts to set us back in voting rights."

Do you think we are too stupid to read?