#black voter suppression

[alwaysbewoke]

and they're at it AGAIN!!!

[iamrhyme]

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Between 10,000 and 20,000 voters in Erie County, Pennsylvania still haven’t received their mail-in ballots, according to a new lawsuit filed by the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, says that 40,844 mail-in ballot applications were approved in Erie County but, as of Oct. 28, only 21,536 ballots have been returned — a return rate of 52%, which is 15 percentage points under the state’s average return rate of 67%. Because of this, the plaintiffs alleged that up to 20,000 mail-in ballots requested by Erie County voters were never delivered.

The lawsuit also alleges that more than 300 voters received two mail-in ballots, one of which may not correlate to the local races those voters are eligible to vote for. The plaintiffs also allege that the United States Postal Service has no record of having received 1,800 mail-in ballots from the third-party vendor that the Erie Board of Elections contracted to distribute mail-in ballots.

The lawsuit says the vendor is still “in the process of trying to locate” the lost ballots. Under state law, mail-in ballots are required to be delivered to voters who requested them at least two weeks prior to the election.

The plaintiffs are asking the court to force the Board of Elections to fix the error by releasing the names of all the voters who might have been affected, to allow those voters to cancel their mail-in ballot status and cast a provisional ballot at an in-person polling place.

This might not happen on Nov 5

[odinsblog]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending the police to people’s HOMES for the ‘crime’ of signing a pro-choice petition

Isaac Menasche remembers being at the Cape Coral farmer’s market last year when someone asked him if he’d sign a petition to get Florida’s abortion amendment on the ballot.

He said yes — and he told a law enforcement officer as much when one showed up at the door of his Lee County home earlier this week.

Menasche said he was surprised when the plainclothes officer twice asked if it was really Menasche who had signed the petition. The officer said he was looking into potential petition fraud.

Though the officer was professional and courteous, Menasche, who has had little interaction with police in his life, said the encounter left him shaken.

“I'm not a person who is going out there protesting for abortion,” Menasche said. “I just felt strongly and I took the opportunity when the person asked me, to say yeah, I'll sign that petition.”

The officer's visit appears to be part of a broad - and unusual — effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to inspect thousands of already verified and validated petitions for Amendment 4 in the final two months before Election Day. The amendment would overturn Florida's six-week abortion ban by proposing to protect abortion access in Florida until viability.

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[pjharvey-moved]

personally i just think it’s really sad to see specifically so many women and minorities saying they’re not going to vote in the upcoming election given that we’ve fought tooth and nail for the right to vote. the us government (and others) wouldn’t have tried to keep us from voting for so long if our votes didn’t mean anything.

[eugenedebs1920]

It seems that rather than adapt to a diversifying American, Republicans will cheat to obtain or retain power. Their campaign of suppression, intimidation, and voter purges is at an all time record. SCOTUS and many in the Republican Party seem to forget that this is OUR country. That it’s WE the people. Do not let the forces of old and evil try to tell you otherwise. Make sure your registration is current and valid and let’s show these assholes who this country belongs to. From the revoking justices on the Supreme Court to the obstructionist in the house. This nonsense has gone on long enough! We are ashamed of the tactics some political figures resort to but. We are proud to be Americas! We will not be silenced. We are the people! 🇺🇸

[forgottencartoons]

Everyone read it. It’s not short, but it’s important. ESPECIALLY for voters in the USA.

[originalleftist]

I CANNOT OVERSTATE THE IMPORTANCE OF CHECKING YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

I just found out that North Carolina, one of the closest Presidential swing states in the country where a self-proclaimed "Black Nazi" and Holocaust Denier is running for Governor, has purged 10% of its voters.

And this same story is being repeated all over the country, on various pretexts (like not having voted/registered recently).

Republicans can't win a fair race. They KNOW they can't win a fair race. So they're trying to cheat.

If your vote didn't matter they wouldn't be trying so hard to deny it. Don't let them take your voice away.

(Also, vote Josh Stein for Governor if you're in North Carolina.)

[whitesinhistory]

On July 1, 1965, a white sheriff in Camden, Alabama, forced people to leave and then padlocked the doors of the Antioch Baptist Church—a Black church where leaders were discussing civil rights—even though he did not have the authority to do so. Community members from the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) group had been meeting at the church for several months, working to promote Black voter registration in Alabama and the rest of the South. According to the 1960 census, Black residents made up over 75% of the population of Wilcox County. However, because of established practices and laws passed with the intent of suppressing the Black vote—which were enforced in discriminatory ways—no Black people in Wilcox County were registered to vote during the 1964 election. When people at the Antioch Baptist Church began registering Black voters, they were quickly targeted by the white community. Two days before Sheriff P.C. Jenkins evicted people from the church, a group of white men had broken into the building and beaten two Black teenagers, inflicting injuries so severe that they were both hospitalized. Rather than providing protection from this violence, on July 1, Sheriff Jenkins announced that the church had been the cause of “too much disturbance,” and gave people only a few hours to clear out their belongings before putting a padlock on the door.  Though Sheriff Jenkins claimed that at least one church leader had expressed opposition to having the church involved in civil rights activism, the following day the chairman of the Board of Deacons denied that claim, and two weeks later the congregation and board of the church unanimously voted to support the church’s involvement in registering Black voters.   Read EJI’s report, Segregation in America, to learn more about how local white officials targeted civil rights activists and the Black church in their quest to uphold segregation.

[alwaysbewoke]

[almostmyfest]

DEMAND REPARATIONS White guilt and shame are not enough to make up for over 500 years of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, segregation, voter denial/suppression, racial profiling, police brutality, racially biased death penalty sentences, job/education discrimination, etc.

Reparations is a start. It’s time to demand Congress pass a generational Reparations Bill for all Black people today and their descendants. Reparations can be paid for by defunding the military industrial complex, police force, and corrupt prison system in addition to a Reparations Tax on all white adults.

[thashining]

Even MAGA thought she was gonna win, out there burning ballots...

[nando161mando]

Democrats to their young voters:

[realjaysumlin]

Trump's VP Announcement Didn’t Go According to Plan - The Atlantic

Things that you just can't make up.