Georgia County Can't Back Up Its Excuse For Plan To Disenfranchise Black Voters

[Gothmog]

The GOP is using voter suppression and Jim Crow tactics to suppress the vote of African American voters in Georgia https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/georgia-county-close-polling-places-access_us_5b7c7484e4b07295150dbaf3?la

Officials in a majority-black Georgia county accused of trying to close almost all polling places to make it harder for black people to vote claimed last week that the locations couldn’t be used because of accessibility problems for people with disabilities.

But Randolph County doesn’t have a single recent report, analysis or document supporting the idea that it needs to close seven of its nine polling places due to accessibility issues, a lawyer for the county told HuffPost on Tuesday in response to a public records request.

HuffPost requested records from the county dating back to March 1, 2018. The county hired Michael Malone, an outside elections consultant now pushing for the closures, on April 2. But according to the county, it has no written record of evidence to back his recommendations.

“There is no document, report or analysis studying the handicap accessibility of polling places in Randolph County and the cost of fixing them within the time frame specified in your open records request,” Hayden Hooks, an attorney with the firm Perry & Walters, which represents Randolph County, wrote in an email. The county has no record of such a document in the past year, Hooks added.

[dawg day]

1. Making only 2 places in the county to vote sounds like it would be REALLY difficult for disabled.

And everyone else.

[AJT]

2. Did they study accessibility issues for the entire state?

All the polling places......like in rural white areas?

[Hoyt]

3. I bet the election board votes Friday to delay closing the precincts.

[mercuryblues]

4. I guess they never

heard of voting tablets. Before my Sis inlaw died, she had mobility problems. Standing in line to vote was out of the question. My brother went in and they brought a tablet out to the car for her to place her vote. problem solved.

[Cha]

5. Damn the Fascists to Hell.

Best of Luck to the Black Voters in Georgia and all over the country

[Gothmog]

6. The GOP is the party of voter suppression and relies on voter suppression to win races

[Cha]

7. Yeah the GOPutineers Suppress the Vote and

ask for assistance from a foreign agent to cheat in a presidential "election".

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

8. BREAKING: Randolph County elections consultant fired over proposal to close 7 of 9 polling places

The Georgia GOP may be backing down on voter suppression plan

Link to tweet

[struggle4progress]

9. Make it up as you go along