Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Gerogia County - Polidicks

Full Headline: Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/randolph-county-polling-places_us_5b77115ce4b0a5b1febb04fc These polling places worked for over 20 years since the ADA went into effect, all the way up to this years primaries, but now that a general election that is looking to bring high voter turnout they have to be closed because suddenly they aren't compliant. Georgia was one of nine states that had to seek approval from the federal government before making changes to its election practices under the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court nullified that requirement, ruling the formula used to determine which states had to get approval was unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the majority opinion, pointed to progress in getting rid of racial discrimination to justify why the formula should be struck down. In a dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously wrote that Roberts’ reasoning was akin to “throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.” Really makes you think.

Also just to show how much corruption is in this election, the leader behind all the polls functions is Brian Kemp. You know, the republican running for governor.

Where I live the polling place was in town in the local YMCA until this year when they put it at a minute or two drive in the middle of nowhere.

Don't all public buildings have to be accessible to people with disabilities? How come they all of a sudden aren't? It's another case of just claiming bullshit to get what they want. Just like the town that blighted a bunch of people's homes so they could use eminent domain

How hard is it to install a ramp?

Roberts is being such a disingenuous asshole in that ruling removing part of the Voting Rights Act. He knew full well the south has been itching for more disenfranchisement after the 60s when the act was passed and when poll taxes were made illegal. Gerrymandering isn't strong enough for them.

In rural counties, it's extremely common for much of the construction predates the Americans With Disabilities Act, and don't have the budgets for expensive reconstruction. It's something that needs to be addressed, but as you say, this is a bullshit excuse to justify voter suppression. These buildings have ALWAYS been out of code. Why is it suddenly a problem when there's a contested election? Why CLOSE the polling places instead of just moving them to a nearby location that is already compliant? Why is it ONLY predominantly black counties facing these closures, when old rural construction and polling sores exist across the entire state? It's voter suppression, plain and simple.

The south will never stop vote suppressing unless it gets military governorship again.

this is why things on the court are getting scary. we can quantify these issues with statistics and models and show exactly what is happening but the court wants nuanced philosophical justifications instead.

For most public buildings, it's as easy as a bit of plywood and a few 2x4's. You probably don't even need concrete anchors in most cases. Shit, in a lot of places, just a piece of plywood would do well enough, they're only 1-2 steps above ground level.

I know they didn't issue a definitive ruling on gerrymandering on those two recent cases, but did any justices say what they thought about that efficiency gap test that was proposed?

I know Russia have a lot of power over Trump and the US right now, but renaming a county Gerogia is a bit blatant.

County? Nah man, IT WAS A WHOLE STATE https://i.imgur.com/WCuQ8M5.png

It was until the damn Russians grabbed South-Ossetia. Those bastards.

Georgia is so ass backwards. Google laurens county school teachers get guns. Small town, but the schools there have allowed teachers to carry guns on premise. Fucking hell man.

I can't word good.

its got to conform to a standard though, which can be as easy as grinding out some sidewalk here or there or if you're doing what georgia is doing you can shut them all down for procedural reasons. Same tactic is used on abortion clinics, no building is ever 100% up to code as code is somewhat up to interpretation.

I was simply making a comment in jest regarding the typo in the thread title.

Yeah, but they've already been holding elections there for years, literally even this year. Doing a temp job like that to allow for ADA compliance, if it's even an issue and not just the bullshit it smells like, would be the way to go until after the election when proper construction can be done.

With abortion clinics they also pass new regulations they know the current clinics don't conform to.

But I thought being black in modern America meant you was no longer oppressed? I mean you can piss in a white man's toilet now and get elected president, there's no way institutional racism still exists in some parts!!!

The south has had institutional racism since the first slaves were brought to the area. The very second Reconstruction ended and the south got to control itself again there were Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy tests, white primaries, lynching. The governor of Alabama himself stood in the way of black students trying to get into a university in the 60s, and the president had to federalize the state National Guard to stop him.

Most Brits know more about America than vice versa, but that sorta makes sense given the pecking order in world affairs. I did initially think there was a county in the state of Georgia called Georgia though, hence why I wrote my joke incorrectly in the first place, as I often hear Americans say "Something County" when talking about somewhere, and the thread title was obviously meant to say 'Georgia County', so I got confused. It's kinda how Mexico's capital is Mexico City, was my logic.

Fuck dude, I had already voted for Stacey Abrams in the early voting back in March. And now this clown is pulling this bullshit? For once can we get a southern state that is blue and not bass ackwards.

George Wallace was a real piece of shit.

When I visited the capitol there was a statue of his wife who was the first female governor of the state. (a puppet of her husband) He apparently became a born again Christian and renounced segregation, and appointed a lot of black people in his final governor term. I don't believe he stopped being a racist asshole though.

He became a "born again christian" and "renounced his views" after Arthur Bremer capped him in the spine trying to become famous like Lee Harvey Oswald. If it wasn't for that he'd have been a piece of shit well into his grave. He actually wrote to Bremer while Bremer was in jail. Bremer didn't reply. He didn't even really know who Wallace was, really, he just targeted him because he was a loud and obnoxious jackass who everyone loved to hate. After Bremer shot him he faded into obscurity.

Update: The plan was scrapped and the guy who suggested it was fired https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/24/us/randolph-county-polling-closures-vote/index.html

Someone needs to find a way to bring Sherman back to life. He'd be able to solve any problems the Georgians have about outdated polling buildings.

There really ought to be regulations when a secretary of state runs for office while simultaneously being secretary.