Remember that Republican state Senator from Georgia who recently objected to early voting on the Sunday before the election in DeKalb County because, as he was caught saying in email, it was an area “dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches”?
Sen. Fran Millar vowed at the time to “eliminate” that Sunday voting, which he described as “an election law loophole”. He then doubled-down, after the media picked up on it, by saying that he actually wasn’t against all of those black people voting, it was just that he “would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters.”
Well, now the same type of vote suppression jackassery has spread over to Bibb County, Georgia, where, as in the rest of the state, changing demographics continue to squeeze white Republicans and their longtime political hold. Can’t have that. So now, Republican members of the county election board have knocked down a proposal for Sunday voting, because, as Zaid Jilani described it at Alternet, it “would mean more…voting”.
The Macon-Bibb County Commissioners had already approved the $3,000 it would cost to have the extra day of voting, but the proposal was defeated 3 to 2 this week nonetheless, with the Election Board’s Dems both voting in favor. According to WMAZ, here’s how one GOP member of the boared explained it [emphasis added]:
Rinda Wilson, a Republican, called it “a partisan thing” backed by Democrats: “There have been six states that have been targeted, Georgia being one of them, that this would be a way just to wring out every last vote.”
Well, we’d hate for “every last vote” to be cast in a democracy. That’d be “a partisan thing”! Glad to see the Bibb County Election Board is there to keep that from happening!
Jim Crow rising — and smiling — in The South.
Working class voters actually going to the polls to cast ballots for candidates who represent their interests? Oh, the horror!
Don’t you realize that the one percent has a birthright to the best oligarchy money can buy?
In the voice of the Wicked Witch of the West in Wizard of Oz:
No! Not voters! Nothing ruins a democracy like voting.
I’ll get you, my little Democrats, and you’re little dogs, too. [Use of the “wrong” you’re intentional]