Voter Harassment, Circa 2012

[Gerald]

This is how http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/fi...wofjimcrow.pdf White teenagers in Americus, Ga., harassed black citizens in line to vote, and the police refused to intervene. Black plantation workers in Mississippi had to vote in plantation stores, overseen by their bosses. Black voters in Choctaw County, Ala., had to hand their ballots directly to white election officials for inspection. This is how it works today: In an ostensible hunt for voter fraud, a Tea Party group, True the Vote, descends on a largely minority precinct and combs the registration records for the slightest misspelling or address error. It uses this information to challenge voters at the polls, and though almost every challenge is baseless, the arguments and delays frustrate those in line and reduce turnout.

The thing that’s different from the days of overt discrimination is the phony pretext of combating voter fraud. Voter identity fraud is all but nonexistent, but the assertion that it might exist is used as an excuse to reduce the political rights of minorities, the poor, students, older Americans and other groups that tend to vote Democratic. In The Times on Monday, Stephanie Saul described how the plan works. True the Vote grew out of a Tea Party group in Texas, the King Street Patriots, with the assistance of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by the Koch brothers that works to elect conservative Republicans. It has developed its own software to check voter registration lists against driver’s license and property records. Those kinds of database matches are notoriously unreliable because names and addresses are often slightly different in various databases, but the group uses this technique to challenge more voters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/op...me&ref=general


Note: September 21, 2012

[Stealhead]

You know in Florida Rick Scott(the Governor) approved a law that was clearly designed to stop Sunday voting which has been a tradition with many blacks in Florida for years they go to church on Sunday and then get on buses many do not have vehicles of their own being mostly elderly and retired.

This law also would seem to target lower class persons that work all week long and only have time to go vote on Sunday.Of course both of these types are most likely to vote Democratic.

King Street Patriots is a very aggressive sounding name to me If some guy calling himself that questioned me I'd tell him edit off of course they would not be bothering me because I'm white though I'd tell them to edit off if I saw someone like that harassing someone else.

In my local area they re arranged several of the voting precincts combing several in the process what was interesting about this is that they moved several precincts from a
much better location with ample parking and closed those and then combined two precincts into one location with much less ample parking.Why would they do that? That seems to specifically make a person that tries to come in before work less likely to vote because they cant wait for a parking spot.I live in rural area so normally lines are fairly short a few minutes at max that was in the past though this rearrangement seems only to have increased the wait time.

http://jacksonville.com/news/florida...ut-black-votes

[AVGWarhawk]

Whoever heard of such a thing? Even Eric Holder refuse to intervene.