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Democratic Lawyers better be on it. (Original Post) irisblue Dec 2017 OP
I agree.. the STASI is alive and active in Alabama.. also the kkk kk. pangaia Dec 2017 #1
They absolutely better RandomAccess Dec 2017 #2
They ARE. bettyellen Dec 2017 #3
 

RandomAccess

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2. They absolutely better
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 10:03 PM
Dec 2017

Reports of Voter Suppression Tactics Pour In From Alabama Election
Voters in the contest between Roy Moore and Doug Jones complain of being put on inactive status and prevented from voting.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/reports-of-voter-suppression-tactics-pour-in-from-alabama-election/


Were being suppressed: Black Alabamians forced to cast provisional ballots
KIRA LERNER at Think Progress https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029970415
https://thinkprogress.org/alabamians-cry-voter-suppression-50ddc1b53b3a/
DOTHAN, ALABAMA — Dechauna Jiles was excited to cast a ballot on Tuesday for Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones. She said her parents grew up two blocks from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was bombed by the KKK during the civil rights movement, and it would be a dishonor to her family to not vote in this election.
But when she arrived at her polling place, the First Assembly of God Church, on Tuesday morning, Jiles was told that she was “inactive” on the rolls and would have to cast a provisional ballot — a ballot that will not be counted unless she is able to verify her voter information.
“That makes no sense,” she told ThinkProgress, explaining that the poll workers told her she’d have to drive to another precinct to update her information, even though she voted here last November.
“It’s not that we’re not showing up to vote — we’re being suppressed,” Jiles said. “[Roy Moore, the Republican nominee] is going to win, not because our people didn’t speak, but because our vote was suppressed.”


******* Alabama Supreme Court issues late night stay blocking preservation of Tuesdays digital vote records
Source: Alternet https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141937125
The Alabama Supreme Court stepped into Tuesday’s U.S. Senate race between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones on Monday night by blocking a lower state court’s ruling earlier in the day that told statewide election officials to take steps to preserve digital images of every ballot cast Tuesday.
https://www.alternet.org/activism/alabama-supreme-court-issues-monday-night-order-blocking-best-practices-verify-vote
This is how Trump won. Vote ain’t sacred.
and this: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029966965

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