Black senior citizens ordered off Georgia bus taking them to vote

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Government officials in an east Georgia county told about 40 African-American senior citizens to get off a bus taking them to vote Monday, leading to complaints of voter suppression.
The bus, run by the group Black Voters Matter, was preparing to depart from a senior center operated by Jefferson County when the center’s director said they needed to disembark, said LaTosha Brown, a co-founder of Black Voters Matter.

A county clerk had called the senior center raising concerns about allowing the bus to take residents from the senior center in the city of Louisville, south of Augusta.

The senior citizens agreed to get off the bus and cast their ballots later. Monday was the first day of in-person early voting in Georgia in the election for governor between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp.

Jefferson County’s administrator said Tuesday that the county government considered the event at the senior center “political activity,” which isn’t allowed during county-sponsored events.

https://politics.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/black-senior-citizens-ordered-off-georgia-bus-taking-them-vote/42lZxIGOF1uFo637TEc9jP/

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1. This crap has to stop

So if using county resources to provide transportation to its citizens to vote is political activity, I suppose using a handicapped parking space outside a voting precinct would also be unacceptable behavior.

For that matter, let's go all the way - use of county resources for voting is political activity? Then the county can't spend any resources or use any humanpower for conducting elections. They can't count the votes, because that would lead to a political victory.

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2. GOT DAMMIT.

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3. Should have refused to get off the bus. Make them try to arrest them.