The GOP turns to toilets to suppress more black voters

[DonViejo]

By Dana Milbank
Columnist
August 21 at 7:25 PM

It warms the heart to see the newfound concern that Georgia has for its disabled residents.

Election overseers were worried sick that the disabled in Randolph County, a rural hamlet where 60 percent of residents are black and nearly a third live in poverty, might arrive at their polling place and find they had to park on grass or, worse, that there was no railing next to the toilet seat.

And so, bless their hearts, the officials did the compassionate thing: They proposed to close seven of the nine polling places in Randolph. Now disabled people wouldn’t have to worry about tripping on turf. They’d simply have to haul themselves up to 30 miles round trip to one of the two remaining precincts.

“Folks, I will tell you right now, your polling places are not ADA-compliant, period,” Mike Malone, a consultant hired by the county at the suggestion of Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office, explained at a public meeting last week. The county had run afoul of the Americans With Disabilities Act! “You have to have compliant polling places,” Malone said.

Many of those present expressed suspicion that the election officials’ motive was concern for the disabled, rather than, say, suppressing African American voters. Malone assured them this was the “farthest thing from the fact.”

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[underpants]

1. Wow. That's really bad.

They went to the facility thing like they did with abortions.

[Roland99]

2. ADA was passed when? These polling places have been used since how many times?

Yeah. Thought so

Fucking Nazis

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Then EVERY SINGLE REGISTERED VOTER should be given/mailed

an application and then a paper ballot to vote. Additional advantage of you can't hack a paper ballot.

[Bettie]

4. Oh I get it

on election day, they'll go to one of the "compliant" polling places and be told they have to cast a provisional ballot since they are in the wrong place.

Then the right wingers will call it in-person voter fraud.

How do we get the UN to monitor our elections?

[nykym]

5. They do have rental porta potties for

the disabled.

[maxrandb]

6. Can DU start a volunteer share a ride program

I'd love to see 1000 cars in this area on election day ferrying people to and from polling places.

I've got plenty of time, and a couple of nights in a hotel in Georgia wouldn't break me.

Has anyone considered this, or is there a contact that could help coordinate this.

Call it the "New Freedom Rides"

[GeorgeGist]

11. +1

[keithbvadu2]

7. Many polling places will bring the ballot out to the car for disabled folks.

Many polling places will bring the ballot out to the car for disabled folks.

[OilemFirchen]

8. As I mentioned before...

if any of these polling places are churches or church-owned buildings, they are exempt from the ADA.

It's likely that many, most, or all are.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Look y'all! Theys black people comin'. Gotta stop 'em. They's a-fixin to vote for Dimmacrats.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. They were fine for use in the most recent primaries

Hmmm.................Of course, Republicans always just ooze with "concern" for people with disabilities.