Comments by "freein2339" (@freein2339) on "Trump: African-Americans will come to me in general election" video.
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Wayne Bertsch, a veteran GOP consultant told the Tampa Bay Times that
targeting Democrats was always the goal in curbing early voting. "In the
races I was involved in in 2008, when we started seeing the increase of
turnout and the turnout operations that the Democrats were doing in
early voting, it certainly sent a chill down our spines."
Another
tactic, favored in Texas and Florida, is to target nonprofit groups that
conduct voter-registration drives (the League of Women Voters, the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). This is
achieved by imposing onerous new training, registration and/or liability
burdens on the groups' volunteers. The proportion of African-American
and Latino voters who register through third-party drives is about twice
what it is for whites.
Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter
"A lot of us are campaign officials -- or campaign professionals -- and
we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think
that's voter ID, sometimes we think that's longer lines -- whatever it
may be," Tranter said with a laugh.
Franklin County (Columbus) GOP
Chair Doug Preisse.. "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't
contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read
African-American—voter-turnout machine." Preisse is not some rogue
operative but the chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio's
second-largest county and a close adviser to Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Pa House majority leader Mike Turzai, said his state's voter ID law "is
gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,"
U.S.
District Judge Stephen J. Murphy ordered Michigan election officials to
immediately halt and attempt to rectify one of the two practices --
canceling voter registrations for those whose voter identification card
is returned as undeliverable. Murphy ordered the state to remove the
"rejected" marking in the qualified voter file for all persons whose
original voter ID cards have been returned to the state as undeliverable
since Jan. 1, 2006. About 1,500 people have been removed from the voter
list in that manner this year, according to evidence presented in the
case.
Voter hours were extended in white distrcits of Ohio while voting hours were cut in the Black districts....
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In September 2014, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp expressed concern
that too many minority voters were registering to vote for the November
midterms and so he found it necessary to subpoena the records of at
least one group working to register more Black and Latino voters.
Now he has gone and "lost" 40,000 voter registration forms handed in by one group.
The Root:
According
to an Al-Jazeera report, it’s a sentiment that the staffers at Third
Sector Development are expressing. The nonprofit organization was on a
mission to register as many black and Hispanic people in the state of
Georgia as possible so that voter turnout for the upcoming midterm
elections in November would be high. And they were successful at it,
until they received word that about half of the applications they
submitted for processing have gone missing in action.
“Over the
last few months, the group submitted some 80,000 voter-registration
forms to the Georgia secretary of state’s office—but as of last week,
about half those new registrants, more than 40,000 Georgians, were still
not listed on preliminary voter rolls. And there is no public record of
those 40,000-plus applications, according to state Rep. Stacey Adams, a
Democrat,” Al-Jazeera explained.
But Secretary Kemp says, hey, we're not doing anything differently. Sure they're not.
Georgia
Secretary of State Brain Kemp explained that his office is not doing
anything differently from how it usually processes applications. But
some people aren’t buying his story, seeing as how he’s a Republican,
and black and Hispanic people tend to vote for Democrats.
Georgia
Republicans have been raising eyebrows for some time now with regard to
early voting and voter-ID issues. One state Republican didn’t like how
black and Hispanic voters had easy access to early-voting opportunities.
They
cut early voting, they've got horrible Voter ID laws, and now the
Secretary of State has 40,000 less voter registration forms than were
submitted. Jim Crow is alive and well in Georgia and surrounds, isn't
it?
Of course there are many other incidents of GOP voter suppression....that's why the GOP will not get support from Black voters....too much racism...
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