'It's going to be an angry mob' KY cuts number of polling stations by 95 percent...

[babylonsister]

‘It’s going to be an angry mob’: Kentucky cuts number of polling stations by 95 percent ahead of primary voting
Lawmakers and voting rights experts say Election Day this week will likely mirror what happening during Georgia's primaries
Chris Riotta
New York @chrisriotta
15 hours ago


Kentucky lawmakers have warned the state was heading towards a disastrous primary election this week, as ballot problems, voter confusion and a severe shortage of polling places threatened to suppress turnout amid the coronavirus pandemic.

State officials on both sides of the political aisle released a joint statement condemning US District Court Judge Charles Simpson’s ruling against a case that argued having just one polling site in most of the state’s 120 counties would result in voter suppression.

“We believe the judge disregarded evidence from our expert witness that one location will suppress the vote, particularly among African Americans,” read the statement, co-authored by Jason Nemes, a Republican state representative, and Keisha Dorsey, a Democratic councilwoman for Louisville Metro. The lawmakers were both behind the lawsuit, which demanded an increase in statewide polling locations.

Reports have indicated voters throughout Kentucky received inaccurate absentee ballots — which many requested in order to vote from home rather than flocking to the polls in droves amid a Covid-19 outbreak — that do not match their party affiliations. In Kentucky, voters must be members of a party to participate in its primary elections.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kentucky-cuts-polling-locations-angry-mob-long-lines-georgia-election-day-disaster-confusion-a9577501.html

[ananda]

1. That can't even be remotely legal ...

nt

[Ferryboat]

2. Anything to keep

Moscow Mitch in power.

[kentuck]

4. I would bet money Mitch is behind this?

He'll do anything to stay in power.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Need UN observers

[crickets]

9. It wouldn't hurt, would it? nt

[Sherman A1]

5. I see lawsuits ahead

and maybe a do over.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. One per county?

Here's my county:



Most of the population (1.4 million) is on the west end, but there's also Fishers Island (pop 600 or so) that's not on this map and is closer to Connecticut. It takes two ferries to get from there to Greenport on the East End, then another 50-60 miles to the county offfices. The distance from Huntington to Montauk is abut 85 miles, so figure up to around a 40 mile drive to wherever they would put our one polling place.

I doubt Kentucky has many counties with such severe geographic problems, but the thought that one per county won't suppress voting is insane.

[mucifer]

7. this is how they win. I wonder what we can do to stop it?

[FM123]

8. Horrible!!!

Voting rights expert Ari Berman wrote in a tweet: “There will be one polling place for 616,000 registered voters in Louisville’s Jefferson County, where half state’s black voters live.”