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Nnanji -> RE: Voting Straqight Ticket (9/13/2016 3:12:17 PM)
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I think you misread. The judge blocked a law banning the option to mark a single box to vote a straight ticket. The Republican goal of the law was to make it take significantly more time to vote, which would disproportionately impact black voters because urban areas already tend to be allocated fewer voting resources per capita and have longer lines to begin with.
Oh ya, that's a clever republican trick. We all understand that black people cant take an extra five minutes to vote. Jees...are you listening to yourself?
5 minutes? Try 7 hours: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/no-one-in-america-should-have-to-wait-7-hours-to-vote/264506/
Since Republicans took control of many state houses and gerrymandered themselves into permanent control of state governments in 2010, the average wait time for black voters has become double that of white voters. But I'm sure that's just a coincidence, right?
In CA, the Registrar of voters is an elected County position. I'm assuming in a heavily black district that Registar would be Democrat. I'm not familiar with wherever you are. But, I find it very unlikely that mean republicans are plotting longer wait times for black voters. I'd suspect that is more democrat projection than anything else.
What does California have to do with anything? The linked article is about Florida, where Republicans have reduced polling resources in urban neighborhoods and cut early voting days. It doesn't take a mathematical genius to figure out what will happen to wait times when you cut both flow capacity and availability.
And if you think Republicans aren't targeting by race, please feel free to explain why the North Carolina GOP commissioned a study explicitly on racial patterns in voting, then restricted or eliminated the 5 methods most disproportionately used by black voters, all while leaving the highest risk source of voter fraud unchanged. Because it seems to me if your goal is to eliminate voter fraud, perhaps you should study voter fraud, not racial patterns, and perhaps you should target methods of voting that lead to fraud, not black voters. But that's just me.
I understand you're a little confused about things. The Registrar of voters establishes polling places and staffs them. In California that's a locally elected official. The locations, how many locations, or how many people working those locations has nothing to do with state government. I mentioned I didn't know if it was the same in other states. But I proposed a locally elected official in a heavily minority community would most probably be a leftist. I'm sorry you couldn't understand the points I made. Perhaps you can refrain from being an idiot in the future and just ask questions when you clearly are out of your depths.
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