Thread by @emilygrubert

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:

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.

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.

I actually re-registered in person because I was worried the confirmation was taking so long. My reg date reflects that later registration, and I was able to vote.

#VoterSuppression is extremely real. Was this story just a mistake? Maybe. But for today's primary, both of us requested absentee ballots by the deadline. Neither of us received them in time to mail back, and I just found out our voting location changed.

People are waiting hours for today's election -- the one that didn't get straight up cancelled this year. In my county, I am seeing that once again, machines aren't working, locations are confused, etc. etc.

I know what I'm doing after my meetings today. But this is injustice.

ETA explicitly, since I seem to have deleted it while threading:

Yes, I think Georgia's #VoterSuppression is racist and that the fact my husband was recorded as Black is why he was unable to vote last time. (It's also true that it's hard to vote generally.)