Republicans Keep Trying to Throw Out Black Votes After the Election
It began on Tuesday night in Wayne County, Michigan, where the two Republican members of the four-person board of canvassers voted not to certify the election results of Detroit and its surrounding areas. Republican Monica Palmer said that the board did not have “complete and accurate information” on books used to record which ballots belonged to which precincts. The incompleteness Palmer described was involved discrepancies in around 387 votes in Detroit, a city that cast over 250,000 ballots in the election. Palmer’s motivations became a little clearer, when she made a motion to certify the results in the county’s majority-white suburbs and “communities other than the city of Detroit,” which is almost 78.6 percent Black. (The other Republican board member has an uglier, older history of prejudiced ideas: posting racist memes of Obama.)
But these efforts have succeeded in once again revealing the GOP’s attitude toward Black voters — that their right to ballot access is less secure than that of their white neighbors. This is hardly a new message from the party that, this year, opposed the reinstatement of the Voting Rights Act, caused Black voters in Georgia to wait in line for up to 10 hours to vote, and restricted polling access in Texas for millions of Black and Latino voters. Nor is it a surprising action from a party that abandoned an actual platform this year, instead choosing to “enthusiastically support” a candidate who thought racism was his best chance at reelection.
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