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Thread #ElectionSecurity is THE #VoterSuppression issue.
1. I want you to listen to this @nytimes #TheDaily podcast about the #GeorgiaPrimary meltdown nytimes.com/2020/06/11/pod… Listen to how they tiptoe around the issue of #votingmachines & don't identify them as the CENTRAL issue.
1. I want you to listen to this @nytimes #TheDaily podcast about the #GeorgiaPrimary meltdown nytimes.com/2020/06/11/pod… Listen to how they tiptoe around the issue of #votingmachines & don't identify them as the CENTRAL issue.
2. Why are #votingmachines the central #VoterSuppression issue in #GA & many other states? Because they are the new #JimCrow. The machine is the way officials control how many ppl vote & how those votes are counted. It might as well be a literacy test. Could it be more obvious?
3. The podcast notes that the counties that did not get enough voting machines (for example 3, when they needed 8) were the counties with LARGE #Dem populations w/predominantly voters of color. W/a touchscreen voting machine if you don't have enough machines you have long lines.
Today is the delayed #GeorgiaPrimary and George Floyd's funeral. We keep hearing that voting is the answer, but #VoterSuppression is intensely real.
I've hesitated to tell this story but have been told it might be useful precisely bc I'm a privileged white person, so here goes:
I've hesitated to tell this story but have been told it might be useful precisely bc I'm a privileged white person, so here goes:
The long and short of it: in 2018, my white husband was falsely recorded as Black in the system. I watched him fill out the form, at a voting drive in a Black neighborhood. He did not incorrectly mark his race.
He was unable to vote that year.
He was unable to vote that year.
We had to vote early due to some travel. The system now shows his reg date as ~2 weeks before we went to vote early. That day, though, he wasn't in the system and wasn't able to vote.
#GeorgiaPrimary more than an hour wait to be told new machines aren’t working in all of Dekalb county.
No ETA for fix.
No air, people sitting on the floor.
#VoterSuppression
No ETA for fix.
No air, people sitting on the floor.
#VoterSuppression
#georgiaprimary people have gone to cars to get pop up chairs to sit in. Gentleman walking hallway encouraging folks not to give up #VoterSuppression
@11AliveNews @KeishaBottoms Dekalb county Voters unable to vote due to machines not working. Provisional ballots are not being given out. Waiting since before 7 am. No air. People sitting on floors.
Scene is bleak with no hope of voting today. Please help
Scene is bleak with no hope of voting today. Please help
