GOP elections board in Winston-Salem NC votes to close early voting sites in black & Hispanic neighb

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GOP elections board in Winston-Salem NC votes to close early voting sites in black & Hispanic neighborhoods http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/board-splits-over-early-voting-sites/article_10c89751-478f-52f9-bedc-25269637aa49.html …




Board splits over early voting sites





Posted: Monday, July 18, 2016 11:00 pm

By Arika Herron Winston-Salem Journal

Early voting sites in two of Winston-Salem’s prominent minority neighborhoods are in jeopardy after the Forsyth County Board of Elections approved a plan last week that moves sites at Winston-Salem State University’s Anderson Center and the Sprague Street Recreation Center to other locations.

The plan, which includes 15 early voting sites around the county, was approved by the Republican majority of the board Friday and will be submitted to the State Board of Elections for consideration in the next week. A second plan, drafted by the board’s lone Democrat, Fleming El-Amin, will also be submitted to the state board.

El-Amin said he kept the Anderson Center and Sprague Street locations in his plan to ensure the African-American and Hispanic populations that make up the majority of east and southeast Winston-Salem have easy access to early voting sites. The majority plan, submitted by Republican board members Ken Raymond and Stuart Russell, does away with those sites in favor of an additional site in the southwest portion of the county and a site further east.

Russell, the board’s secretary, said in an email Monday that the Reynolds Park Road Recreation Center is close to WSSU and the area covered by the Sprague Street site and “allows us to better distribute early voting sites in the eastern part of the country.”
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[misterhighwasted]

1. Sick s.o.b's. This is the voter rights issue Hillary spoke of early on.

I hope this can be challenged & remedied by Nov.

[riversedge]

4. Same thing happened in Walker's teabagger state of WI

[genna]

2. Business as usual

Ever since the North Carolina governor became a Republican, this has been going on. Voter suppression during the primaries have suggested that this is a problem of a politician choosing who votes rather the voter selecting the politician.

We just have a corrupted selection process.

[WhiteTara]

3. K&R Thanks for posting!