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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoy Moore files election suit citing suspicions about high turnout in majority black district
...as if it's unusual that the majority black community in Birmingham (and elsewhere) showed up in large numbers to defeat an openly hostile racist.
Link to tweet
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to vote against the openly racist candidate, either.
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)And Moore is Hedley Lamarr.
spanone
(135,884 posts)dembotoz
(16,844 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)...and folks believed him.
Maine-i-acs
(1,501 posts)The black vote was supposed to be stopped.
By stripping voting rights from people convicted of a crime, keeping hundreds of thousands of voters away.
By having harsh voter ID laws requiring a photo ID, akin to a poll tax, that keeps hundreds of thousands of eligible voters away.
By closing the places where you can get a voter ID in the run-up to the vote.
By having fewer polling stations in black precincts.
By purging voters who have not voted in the last few elections, calling them 'inactive' and taking them off the registration lists.
Not to mention centralized electronic voting tabulators.
These tactics work, are spreading all across the country, and are straight from the GOP handbook.
The voters had to overcome ALL of the above to win. The GOP wasn't expecting this and now they need a new excuse.
"Judge" Moore wasn't interested in the GOP precincts in WI and MI that had over 100% voter turnout in November 2016. Those were white GOP votes and they never complain about a few extra of those.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)..."NO WAY black voters came out in large numbers, not as hard as we worked to keep them from the polls."
"We're suin'!"
Bengus81
(6,933 posts)Bring in four machines at a few locations that will have heavy turn out and damn within a few minutes of the polls opening two of them have software/mechanical problems so throw a cover over them. Meanwhile the waiting line grows and grows--and then the favorite of telling people to go home at 7pm even though they were already in line.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)in Wisconsin because of strict voter ID laws. I'd never heard that some GOP precincts had "over 100%" turnout.
Orrex
(63,225 posts)I posted a fake headline on FB indicating "Moore Disappointed by Black Turnout." Thought I'd posted it here as well, but apparently not.
Looks like I was correct, alas.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)PragmaticDem
(320 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)The State's counting of ballots infringes on Moore's right to be sworn in as US Senator.
Or something.