On 10/28/14 4:49 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/28/2014 3:43 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 10/28/14 3:25 PM, wrote:
Considering your low opinion of southern rednecks, isn't it easy for
you to admit these might just be white guys who screwed up their
registrations so badly that they were thrown away?
As I stated, I don't know who they were, and unlike you, I'm not willing
to speculate on everything just for the sake of posting an opposite
opinion. The Republican secretary of state there claims the 40,000
registrations have been found, but there is no evidence of that in the
hands of those who registered.
Further, The “Republican whip of the state Senate complained that DeKalb
County, Ga., was making it too easy for minorities to vote by allowing
early voting in an area mall close to many predominantly
African-American churches,” according to a report in Think Progress.
As I have stated, this is just one of many instances in which
Republicans are trying to chill turnout and the vote because the
demographics are not going their way.
Is a proportionally similar number of early voting places being set up
in area malls close to predominately white communities or churches?
Bet you don't know.
In Texas, specifically, not. But these satellite voter registration
facilities typically are set up in neighborhood centers near where there
are low-income communities with little access to private transportation,
so that more people can be registered and encouraged to vote. Recently,
though, states run by Republicans have cut way back on these facilities
and on early voting because these activities register more blacks and
other minorities and increase minority voting. There's no other reason
for what the GOPers are doing. Texas is beginning to turn "purple" from
red, and these efforts to chill the vote are aimed at slowing that trend.
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