BREAKING: Cheryl Moses, editor of @BlkGwinnett Magazine, teamed with the Palast Fund to file a formal complaint with the US Dept of Justice Civil Rights Division. The legal action demands the reversal of severe restrictions on dropboxes in Georgia. #gapol gregpalast.com/justice-dept-t…
Last week, our investigations team reported what media missed: the number of mail-in votes in #Georgia plummeted by 83%, by over one million ballots since the last Election — almost all lost in the non-white majority Atlanta counties. gregpalast.com/mail-in-ballot…
Did it make a difference? You bet: Two out of three Georgia mail-in ballots vote Democratic.
Now we’ve discovered that voters in the white-majority counties outside Atlanta have on average three times as many dropboxes per voter as Black Atlanta — a 314% difference imposed by #Georgia’s new law #SB202. Imposed by Jim Crow. #gapol gregpalast.com/justice-dept-t…
#SB202 limits dropboxes to no more than 1 per 100,000 active voters. This limit affects ONLY the 4 large Greater Atlanta counties which are 59.7% non-white. The law shuttered 77% of Atlanta-area dropboxes, declining from 107 to 25. gregpalast.com/justice-dept-t…
At the same time, small rural counties were required to ADD at least one dropbox. The result: a radical reduction in dropboxes in urban counties to 55,862 voters per dropbox. In the remainder of Georgia, 65% white, only 18,000 voters must share a dropbox, a 314% difference. 
Absentee balloting in the four Atlanta-area counties plummeted by 83%, not only because of the limits on number of dropboxes, but because #SB202 slashed their availability. gregpalast.com/mail-in-ballot…
Dropboxes could only be placed INSIDE county offices and early voting stations. This sabotages the purpose of dropboxes — providing access to those with jobs or obligations that require voting outside business hours.
The sole argument for reduction in dropboxes in non-white urban areas is that the boxes supposedly allow for ballot stuffing by so-called “mules,” Black men allegedly paid to sneak stolen ballots into unattended dropboxes.
This phantasmagoric nonsense was promoted by a film, #2000Mules, which was discredited by a ballot-by-ballot review by the #Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Secretary of State. gregpalast.com/2000-mules-bel…
Yet, the Governor, while acknowledging the lack of voter fraud, still signed #SB202 with its arbitrary restrictions.
These new dropbox restrictions in urban counties (while increasing dropbox access in rural counties), with its measurable racial effects, violates the Civil Rights Acts, the Voting Rights Act & the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment gregpalast.com/justice-dept-t… #gapol
Add YOUR name to the complaint here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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