This is the most biased, intentionally dishonest, and racially inflammatory story I think I've ever read. Reuters should be ashamed. Gotta 🧵, because the details matter. 
Here's the story's inflammatory lede, intended to set pulses racing.
The details: Spalding County has a 5-person election board, which contained a majority of 3 black Dem women, and a black Dem woman election supervisor.
The new law stipulates the parties still get to choose 2 board members each, with the 5th member appointed by a local judge.
The new law stipulates the parties still get to choose 2 board members each, with the 5th member appointed by a local judge.
So, one black Dem woman member of the board, Vera McIntosh, was replaced by a Republican. The other 2 black Dem women RESIGNED from the board, in protest of the new law. They were replaced by two other Democrats, one of whom is black. Is it fair to describe that as a GOP purge?
As to the black female election supervisor. Her name is Marcia Ridley. The new law stipulates election supervisors must live in the county in which they are supervising. Seems pretty reasonable, and has nothing to do with race.
Furthermore, well down in the article, it notes that on election day in 2020, voting machines malfunctioned in all 18 districts in Spalding County, leading to chaos and long lines. In other words, it was a mess, and Marcia Ridley was in charge.
*all 18 precincts*
Bottom line, whether you agree or disagree with the new law in Georgia, the details of the situation in Spalding County hardly represent a "purge" of black elections officials by Republicans, as Reuters intentionally (and maliciously) tried to make people believe.
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