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bigtree

(86,005 posts)
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:05 AM Dec 2017

Roy Moore files election suit citing suspicions about high turnout in majority black district

...as if it's unusual that the majority black community in Birmingham (and elsewhere) showed up in large numbers to defeat an openly hostile racist.


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Roy Moore files election suit citing suspicions about high turnout in majority black district (Original Post) bigtree Dec 2017 OP
Hopefully, this won't be so unusual in the future. And it won't be unusual for 60% or more of whites Hoyt Dec 2017 #1
This is so "Blazing Saddles" GreenEyedLefty Dec 2017 #2
hey roy, get the fuck out of here. spanone Dec 2017 #3
Bigots are as bigots do dembotoz Dec 2017 #4
They thought they had rigged it so minorities could not register or vote...what happened? Sancho Dec 2017 #5
Moore talked as if he was going to bring back slavery bigtree Dec 2017 #7
He has a VERY good point. Maine-i-acs Dec 2017 #6
there's a funny picture bigtree Dec 2017 #9
And the popular "broken" voting machine..... Bengus81 Dec 2017 #11
Actually, voter turnout was down by hundreds of thousands louis-t Dec 2017 #13
On the night of the election... Orrex Dec 2017 #8
He should take up knitting. nt DesertRat Dec 2017 #10
Well done! PragmaticDem Dec 2017 #12
Black people vote, Roy is shocked. Historic NY Dec 2017 #14
c.f. Bush v. Gore (2000) Orsino Dec 2017 #15
You lost sucker. Get over it! MiniMe Dec 2017 #16
Was Roy wearing a rebel flag hat and t-shirt when he filed this suit? sarcasmo Dec 2017 #17
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. Hopefully, this won't be so unusual in the future. And it won't be unusual for 60% or more of whites
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:20 AM
Dec 2017

to vote against the openly racist candidate, either.

Maine-i-acs

(1,501 posts)
6. He has a VERY good point.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:42 AM
Dec 2017

The black vote was supposed to be stopped.

By stripping voting rights from people convicted of a crime, keeping hundreds of thousands of voters away.
By having harsh voter ID laws requiring a photo ID, akin to a poll tax, that keeps hundreds of thousands of eligible voters away.
By closing the places where you can get a voter ID in the run-up to the vote.
By having fewer polling stations in black precincts.
By purging voters who have not voted in the last few elections, calling them 'inactive' and taking them off the registration lists.
Not to mention centralized electronic voting tabulators.

These tactics work, are spreading all across the country, and are straight from the GOP handbook.
The voters had to overcome ALL of the above to win. The GOP wasn't expecting this and now they need a new excuse.

"Judge" Moore wasn't interested in the GOP precincts in WI and MI that had over 100% voter turnout in November 2016. Those were white GOP votes and they never complain about a few extra of those.

bigtree

(86,005 posts)
9. there's a funny picture
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:53 AM
Dec 2017

..."NO WAY black voters came out in large numbers, not as hard as we worked to keep them from the polls."

"We're suin'!"

Bengus81

(6,934 posts)
11. And the popular "broken" voting machine.....
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:58 AM
Dec 2017

Bring in four machines at a few locations that will have heavy turn out and damn within a few minutes of the polls opening two of them have software/mechanical problems so throw a cover over them. Meanwhile the waiting line grows and grows--and then the favorite of telling people to go home at 7pm even though they were already in line.

louis-t

(23,297 posts)
13. Actually, voter turnout was down by hundreds of thousands
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 11:40 AM
Dec 2017

in Wisconsin because of strict voter ID laws. I'd never heard that some GOP precincts had "over 100%" turnout.

Orrex

(63,225 posts)
8. On the night of the election...
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:52 AM
Dec 2017

I posted a fake headline on FB indicating "Moore Disappointed by Black Turnout." Thought I'd posted it here as well, but apparently not.


Looks like I was correct, alas.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
15. c.f. Bush v. Gore (2000)
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 12:47 PM
Dec 2017

The State's counting of ballots infringes on Moore's right to be sworn in as US Senator.

Or something.

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