Black Senior Citizens Told to Get Off Bus Taking Them to Vote: 'It Was an Intimidation Tactic'

[HomerJS]

An organization Black Voters Matter showed up at a senior center in Jefferson County Georgia with a bus to have a rally and take 40 senior citizens to the polls for the first day of early voting, The seniors boarded the bus to depart. A county clerk called the senior center about the plans to take people to vote. The center then ordered the people off the bus.

More shenanigans in Georgia. This state is already holding up 53000 vote where 70% are black,

Seems Republicans will try and dirty trick to stop black people from voting. This is an obvious intimidation tactic. Can't have groups of black people showing up to the polls to vote. Especially when a group is making it easy for them

https://www.newsweek.com/40-black-s...-taking-them-vote-it-was-intimidation-1173940

 

[esquared]

It was in the Georgia GOP dirty trick thread earlier, but this needs to be seen in case no one is reading that thread.

https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...absentee-ballots.2555399/page-2#post-39615646

Someone needs to file another lawsuit.
Bring all of this ugly shit to the surface for everyone to see.

 

[cytg111]

@pcgeek11: But if this was a bus of white people wouldnt you want it stopped too?

 

[pcgeek11]

@pcgeek11: But if this was a bus of white people wouldnt you want it stopped too?

You are just attempting to insult me with your silly question, but I'll answer you anyway.

No. They should be allowed to go vote regardless of their color as long as they met the requirements for voting laid out for everyone regardless of their color.

You are such a silly little boy.

 

[cytg111]

You are just attempting to insult me with your silly question, but I'll answer you anyway.

No. They should be allowed to go vote regardless of their color as long as they met the requirements for voting laid out for everyone regardless of their color.

You are such a silly little boy.

You dont know it yet, frequency old man, frequency.

 

[ch33zw1z]

You are just attempting to insult me with your silly question, but I'll answer you anyway.

No. They should be allowed to go vote regardless of their color as long as they met the requirements for voting laid out for everyone regardless of their color.

You are such a silly little boy.

So the administration was acting solely on their feels. Good to know.

 

[IJTSSG]

Vote early, Vote often, Vote Republican.

 

[Zorba]

Remember when Trump asked what black people had to lose by voting for him? Hopefully it is now completely clear.

 

[Greenman]

Were they in a facility where someone else is responsible for them? If so, this is nothing. If they were simply seniors that were stopped from leaving on a bus someone needs to get fired, probably several someones.

 

[zinfamous]

Apparently it was a very good idea to strip the Voting Rights Act of the majority of its power because it's very obvious that the specific states more or less targeted by those restrictions, had certainly learned their lesson....

lol.

Trusting entities that only appeared to act in good faith with the "new" paradigm because the law forced them to (via direct challenges and lawsuits against active attempts to thwart equality, year after year after year) to actually act in good faith, is a bit like the fairy tale that shoveling more money into the pockets of the absurdly wealthy and corporate entities--that have only ever spent their lives exploiting the system to horde as much wealth as they possibly could, whenever given the opportunity--will somehow "inspire" these people to use that very new-found wealth to "create opportunities" that transfers that wealth to the benefit of others.

It's not like we need to pay any attention to any of the decades and decades of hard, obvious data that shows, quite bluntly, that none of these theories ever work. Ever. We just need to feel that they do. And keep trying. Eventually, those "godly" people will learn!

 

[soulcougher73]

GOP: "Cant beat em, cheat em."

Gonna keep repeating this until the news picks it up and runs with it.

 

[Linux23]

Just saw this on Rachel Maddow and this is a new form of low.

 

[hal2kilo]

Just saw this on Rachel Maddow and this is a new form of low.

Unfortunately, it's nothing new at all. Why do you think a Voting Rights Act had to exist in the first place.

 

[mdram]

After the seniors got off the bus, they were initially told they could ride in a county van provided by the senior center to go vote, Brown said. But then the seniors had to get off the van because the senior center’s leaders decided it was close to lunchtime, and the seniors could vote another day.

 

[dainthomas]

After the seniors got off the bus, they were initially told they could ride in a county van provided by the senior center to go vote, Brown said. But then the seniors had to get off the van because the senior center’s leaders decided it was close to lunchtime, and the seniors could vote another day.

Maybe they can just use absentee ballots, which the election workers can then tear up because the "signatures don't match" or whatever.

 

[HomerJS]

Maybe they can just use absentee ballots, which the election workers can then tear up because the "signatures don't match" or whatever.

There will be some other excuse. I would bet my paycheck the center will not offer to take each one of those seniors ASAP. This is how the roadblock method works. Put up barrier and people get discouraged.

 

[outriding]

Vote early, Vote often, Vote Republican.

First case of voter fraud..

 

[pcgeek11]

You dont know it yet, frequency old man, frequency.

More babble...

 

[pcgeek11]

So the administration was acting solely on their feels. Good to know.

What are you attempting to say?