Georgia County Orders Elderly Black Voters Off Bus Taking Them To The Polls

domer76 said:
Not denied their right. Just trying to make it as difficult as they can. That’s the right’s intent with voter suppression.

Closing polling places
Decreasing early voting days
Purging rolls
Strict ID requirements

Different means to obtain the same ends.
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They'll get to the polls....plenty of time. The group obviously broke rules that are in place...
I can't transport groups without written permission/bunches of forms first. That's the way it is today...thanks to, GEE.. I wonder*....
 
Celticguy said:
They were stopped from boarding a bus paid for by a politically motivated group. Now this happens all the time but this is blatant.
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They are adults and can think for themselves. Now if they can't think for themselves you'd think that would be the first reason given for not letting them get on the bus.
 
To the seniors it wasn't voter suppression or anything else.

"They didn't say nothing about vote for steak or hamburger," said Nola Cunningham, a Leisure Center Member. "Some of us were on there just for the ride."

"It didn't feel like a political event to you?" NewsChannel 6 asked.

"No it didn't. It just was fun," Cunningham replied.

"And have you voted?" We asked.

"Yes," she replied.

The director said the center typically issues signed waivers before taking trips. All in all about 10 seniors voted since Monday. And the center provided that transportation.


https://www.wjbf.com/news/csra-news/jefferson-county-it-was-miscommunication-not-voter-suppression/1531720195
 
I'm getting overloaded with quotes so here it is for all of you: Adults can do whatever the fuck they want as long they're not breaking the law and no one broke the law here. Someone provided a link to debunk the story and the main argument seemed to be that the election is "contentious". OK, whatever, so fucking what? Aren't they all?
 
TOP said:
I understand that... It's *unfortunate that things are the way they are, but this isn't an isolated situation...
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That didn't address anything. If adults want to vote they can...at least in Michigan they can. Georgia? maybe not so much.
 
kudzu said:
10/17/2018 05:19 pm ET


.“We knew it was an intimidation tactic,” Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown said.

.Dozens of black senior citizens in rural Georgia were ordered off a bus bound for the polls after county officials said the event constituted prohibited “political activity.”


A Jefferson County clerk reportedly told staff members from the Leisure Center in Louisville on Monday ― the first day of in-person early voting in Georgia ― that roughly 40 black people couldn’t take part in the trip after receiving a complaint from an unnamed caller.


The trip had been organized by the nonpartisan Black Voters Matter, which is embarking on a bus tour across several southern states with the goal of urging black people to vote. The caller said the bus, which was painted with the words “The South is Rising Tour,” should not be allowed to bring people to the polls, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.


Jefferson County Administrator Adam Brett said the trip, set to depart from a county-run senior center, was political and therefore violated guidelines imposed on county-sponsored events, the AJC reported. Although Black Voters Matter is a nonpartisan organization, Jefferson County Democratic Party Chairwoman Diane Evans helped organize the event.


Officials “felt uncomfortable with allowing senior center patrons to leave the facility in a bus with an unknown third party,” Brett told the AJC. “No seniors at the Jefferson County senior center were denied their right to vote.”

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-voters-matter-bus-georgia_us_5bc76a27e4b055bc947ce32b
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The headline and the thread topic is a lie.

Jefferson County Administrator Adam Brett said the trip, set to depart from a county-run senior center, was political and therefore violated guidelines imposed on county-sponsored events, the AJC reported. Although Black Voters Matter is a nonpartisan organization, Jefferson County Democratic Party Chairwoman Diane Evans helped organize the event.

Officials “felt uncomfortable with allowing senior center patrons to leave the facility in a bus with an unknown third party,” Brett told the AJC. “No seniors at the Jefferson County senior center were denied their right to vote.”
 
Guille said:
They are adults and can think for themselves. Now if they can't think for themselves you'd think that would be the first reason given for not letting them get on the bus.
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Loading up buses full of senile seniors - many of whom suffer from Alzheimer's and dementia and have other special needs - without any permission from the facility that's legally responsible for their well-being with no qualified medical personnel attending - sounds like a great idea, huh?
 
kudzu said:
The bus was traveling around encouraging blacks to vote so yes this was a way to obstruct that.

Lots of seniors need transportation to get to the polls expecially in places like rural Jefferson County.
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the trip, set to depart from a county-run senior center, was political and therefore violated guidelines imposed on county-sponsored events

“No seniors at the Jefferson County senior center were denied their right to vote.”
 
Guille said:
They are adults and can think for themselves. Now if they can't think for themselves you'd think that would be the first reason given for not letting them get on the bus.
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You have evidence none suffered some form of dementia ? Dems routinely round those folks up give them some pudding and tell them to hit the D.
 
domer76 said:
Not denied their right. Just trying to make it as difficult as they can. That’s the right’s intent with voter suppression.

Closing polling places
Decreasing early voting days
Purging rolls
Strict ID requirements

Different means to obtain the same ends.
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Legion said:
Loading up buses full of senile seniors - many of whom suffer from Alzheimer's and dementia and have other special needs - without any permission from the facility that's legally responsible for their well-being with no qualified medical personnel attending - sounds like a great idea, huh?
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I didn't read anything about these people being sick in any way, not even in the link you provided.
 
Guille said:
I'm getting overloaded with quotes so here it is for all of you: Adults can do whatever the fuck they want as long they're not breaking the law and no one broke the law here. Someone provided a link to debunk the story and the main argument seemed to be that the election is "contentious". OK, whatever, so fucking what? Aren't they all?
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The issue was not with the seniors but rather the bus
 
kudzu said:
They justified what they did by claiming it was political... but getting the elderly to the polls is NOT political.. Its a service.
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Voting is most certainly political and against rules if it is using government resources you dumb twat.
 
Guille said:
I'm getting overloaded with quotes so here it is for all of you: Adults can do whatever the fuck they want as long they're not breaking the law and no one broke the law here. Someone provided a link to debunk the story and the main argument seemed to be that the election is "contentious". OK, whatever, so fucking what? Aren't they all?
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Many seniors have diminished capacity (mental and physical) and there are legal and medical reasons why you aren't allowed to whisk them away from assisted living facilities without authorization or proper equipment.
 
reagansghost said:
Why Republicans Are Suppressing Black Votes
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