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

[Gothmog]

The Georgia GOP may be backing down on voter suppression plan

Link to tweet

[diva77]

1. These corrupt elections officials are always hiring "consultants" and "vendors" to help put in place

election-stealing apparati. A lot of $$ has been laundered this way as well.

Kudos to the people who took action to put a stop to the corrupt poll closings.

On edit: hopefully people will take action against the massive poll closing/poll consolidations going on all over the country

[joet67]

38. Yep. nt

[ToxMarz]

2. Scapegoat

He was fired because people found out. The election officials will still keep trying to disenfranchise voters.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. You nailed it with both sentences. . . . nt

[diva77]

5. I agree.

[Gothmog]

6. Sunlight is a good disinfectant

They tried to cheat and got caught

[uponit7771]

8. +1

[Fred Sanders]

16. Yes. The election board was going to vote based on a report...that never existed?? Fuckers are

covering up...very poorly.

[dalton99a]

23. Yep.

[joet67]

39. Yep. nt

[Claritie Pixie]

3. Public pressure works!

Bravo!!

[Delphinus]

7. I know it's not over,

but for right now, this is good news.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. They just simply can not win unless they cheat

Republicans KNOW that if elections were completely free, open and easy to access for everyone who was eligible to vote, they wouldn’t stand a chance of being in power in most places

So they cheat.

And they’re good at it

[gratuitous]

12. They ARE good at cheating

They've worked the system for decades to get here, and they'll keep working it. The good news is that people are tuned in to some of their shenanigans, and they're no longer getting a free run. They're going to have to be sneakier about it. I'm confident they can do that, so we have to remain vigilant.

[pecosbob]

10. Glad it was stopped

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[mysteryowl]

11. Great news

Let's it hope it sticks.

[George II]

13. Well that indeed is good news.

[Roadside Attraction]

14. Good for whoever fired him . . . now clean it up

I'm one of two Democrats on the three-member Electoral Board of a rural, heavily Republican Virginia county. We are required every 5 years to do a detailed ADA survey of our polling places to ensure they are handicapped accessible.

Previous Electoral Boards had let it slide. Three years ago, our Republican board chair said we are going to do this right and do it thoroughly. We found four of our six polling places were not in compliance with the ADA -- no handicapped parking spaces, narrow entrances, non-compliant wheelchair ramp.

The Republican board chair said we are going to fix this . . . and fix it we did. It's a long story but all our polling places now are ADA-compliant.

The difference is that our Republican chair is an honest lady who takes no shit off the county Republican chair, who is a flaming asshole.

Just fix the polling places, do what it takes. Of course, these people don't want to make it easy for minorities to vote.

[Dopers_Greed]

15. Good

The GOP is afraid of Abrams

[Gothmog]

30. It is very clear that the Georgia GOP is very scared of her

[Wwcd]

17. K & R to Georgia

[yonder]

18. This is really good to hear.

Small steps, yes but enough of them can turn to a stampede. Some exposure, transparency and light.

Nice learning experience for those who want to keep pulling this crap, too. If they can learn from it.

[Ilsa]

19. Vigilance! Yeah, but they might close them anyway after the furor dies down.

GOP is notorious for having a scapegoat and distraction, then a waiting period, and they'll close down 6 of the 9 voting precincts.

Vigilance!

[gademocrat7]

20. Good news.

It is a start.

[James48]

21. Stop-

Yes, they fired the guy. But the story does not say they are going to keep all nine locations open!

They STILL may be closing them.

Don’t take a victory lap until after we are assured the polling locations will be open!

[LiberalFighter]

22. I don't understand the need for an elections consultant.

Even if they had a vacancy for elections supervisor there should had been someone to step in that was already there.

[Iggo]

24. They got caught.

[Tall Poppy]

25. We"ll still have women from N of Atlanta

driving down to get people to the polls. Hell hath no fury, they done pissed us off again.

[Uncle Joe]

26. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Gothmog

[McCamy Taylor]

27. Wow. The South usually does not try to hide its voter suppression.

Something is very odd if they felt the need to disavow this guy.

[True Blue American]

40. Jon Husted is doing the same thing in Ohio

After filing lawsuits for 8 years, firing democratic Election officials. He lost every case, the 2 officials got their jobs back, but refused to work with Husted.

Finally this year he found a judge that would allow him to purge voters.

Mike DeWine and Jon Husted are on the ticket.

Mike let Charter schools rip off millions. Just this week he sued ECOT, the biggest scandal in Ohio.

Mike never did solve the Southern Ohio massacre. In front of the cameras for weeks. The Press left,so did Mike!

[Cha]

28. Whoa, dude.. that is Breaking!

Thank You, Goth!

Just so much fascism we can take.

[Gothmog]

31. This is my hobby according to my kids

[Cha]

33. Nice worthwhile hobby ya

got there, Goth!

I guess it's my hobby to K&R your hobby.

[Blue_true]

29. The county is majority Black, yet it has election officials that are trying to keep Blacks

from voting. A miss on so many levels in this case. The bastards should have been voted out of office long ago.

[kellytore]

32. They are just trying to protect their state representative who like to hang out behind sex shops

Gerald Greene the state representative over Randolph County was shot in the leg behind a sex store in Columbus Ga. He called the police from a liquor store nearby and said he was shot in the parking lot. Video later surfaced of him coming from behind the sex shop. The sex shop said he was a regular customer. He has a democratic opponent who has an excellent chance of beating him so the republicans are doing all they can to suppress the black vote in his district.

https://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/lawmaker-reportedly-shot-at-adult-cinema/article_89f1ae66-81f9-55e1-9402-f5b3cc1ee773.html

[bigbrother05]

44. The sex shop was next door to a "Gentleman's Club"

C'mon, everybody parks behind the sex/porno shop and strip club 100 yards away because they don't want people to see them at the liquor store buying Lotto tickets. Especially when it's 5 miles out of your way and every convenience store sells Lotto.

[TlalocW]

34. I wonder if Black women being the reason Roy Moore lost in neighboring Alabama

Had anything to do with their initial decision.

TlalocW

[dchill]

35. Cowards.

[SergeStorms]

36. The repugnant Republicans thought...

they could sneak this past everyone. Uh uh, GOPers. We're on to your tricks and we're watching like hawks. So fuck off.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

37. So they hired a new consultant who said to close ALL polling places.

He was given a bonus.

[panader0]

41. Stacey Abrams is frightening the Georgia GOP.

If elected, she would be the first black female governor.
https://staceyabrams.com/

[Mc Mike]

42. Consultant, eh?

[bigbrother05]

43. Heard a local NPR interview with a Board member this morning

He said that the consultant claimed the GA Sec'y of State had sent out guidance about closing for ADA compliance. The Sec'y of State is the GOP candidate for Governor and is not supposed to have jurisdiction over local election boards.

Also, the two polling locations proposed had one on the "White" side of town and the other on the "black" side. Wonder where the majority of the rural folks would have been assigned?

Sounds like the ACLU and others have caught this in time. Have to wonder how many other places are doing similar things that are going unreported?

This is in the same vein of Alabama's attempts to close the DMV offices in numerous black majority counties. If it's harder to get a proper id, it's even harder to get to cast a ballot.

And that's what I like about the South

[Gothmog]

45. Big victory for voting rights: majority black Georgia county decides not to close 7 of 9 polling pla

Link to tweet

[heaven05]

46. good