I do want to say again today that it’s important to place the long lines, where they happened, in the context of the repeat similar history, cycle after cycle, in that same location. Especially when official responses are so eerily similar, & therefore predictable, as years ago.
https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1315738896387518464
And there’s a big diff between understaffed PA or WI county officials submerged by an entirely unprecedented surge in mail voting, and officials in a county that has faced a particular documented issue in the past going thru the same things again.
Yes, it’s so key to keep in mind is that many things that go wrong are about human error, or good faith bad luck, etc! But we can’t abstract from (recent!) history of a place when assessing this.
Gwinnett started in-person voting today; but it’s been voting for years, like this.
Gwinnett started in-person voting today; but it’s been voting for years, like this.
What we’re discussing today is multi-year issues, ones that match some systemic nationwide patterns of who faces access issues—& for accountability for that, what happens later this week is not as relevant. (And suppressive intent isn’t only thing that demands accountability.)
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