This Election is Going to be a Vote Suppression Bacchanalia

Let's stop counting Biden's brain cells, and start counting
vigilantes. This election is going to be a Vote Suppression
Bacchanalia — I’ve never seen anything like it. Mark Elias, who's
considered the number one voting rights attorney these days, has
said it’s is a virus coming out of Georgia. And it is.


Before the last election we found that under a little-noticed
provision of Georgia’s 2021 voting restriction law, SB202, 88 GOP
operatives had filed challenges to block a breathtaking 180,000
voters from having their ballots counted. One woman alone had
challenged a staggering 32,379 voters in Cobb County.


This new Georgia law circumvented restrictions on states removing
voters from the rolls within 90 days of an election, by allowing
individuals to challenge an unlimited number of voters. And now
this vigilante vote challenge tactic is spreading to other swing
states.
The organization that created the challenge lists is a group
out of Texas called True the Vote. In Georgia in 2022, when
they first launched this vigilante game, they had 88 vigilante vote
challengers, now they have an army of 44,000 operating in
battleground states across the US.  

But understand where this vigilante voter challenge scheme comes
from. The Ku Klux Klan created this system in 1946 when they
incorporated themselves as Vigilantes Inc. According to the FBI,
the Klan challenged every single black voter in many counties in
Georgia. And it worked. The Klan got their chief strategist,
Eugene Talmadge, elected governor. 


Here's the strange thing... In 1946 — before the Voting Rights
Act and the Civil Rights Act — Harry Truman's FBI was about to
arrest Talmadge for leading this mass attack on Black
voters, but days before they were going to arrest
him, Talmadge drank himself to death. So, it was
illegal in 1946, and now we have the Voting Rights Act, the
National Voter Registration Act, and the Civil Rights Act, and
somehow mass challenges of voters of color
are perfectly fine with our federal courts?!?


The NAACP and Reverend Jesse Jackson, of Rainbow PUSH, have
begged Biden to sign an executive order to stop these vigilante
vote challenges. They're a clear violation of federal law,
even without the Voting Rights Act. They're also a violation of
our Constitution. And that's what the FBI under Harry Truman
thought — so why isn't the FBI saying the same thing
today? It was illegal in 1946, and it ought to be illegal
now. 


 


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