...to act and cut up in the streets like so many Black Lives Matter protesters are doing right now.

Moves like this impact disenfranchised people more than anybody else. Those same disenfranchised people are virtually powerless to combat this injustice. That demographic oftentimes does not have the wherewithal to stand in line for hours to vote.

The white liberal, progressive, demographic have the financial wherewithal and the influence to attack to stop this from happening. We have no control of the court system anymore, and pointing fingers won't help.

Voices need to be heard in a radical way.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

5. Only 1 polling place for the huge [54 miles across' ] county that Louisville is in. - Wapo

Reply to UncleTomsEvilBrother (Reply #3)

Sat Jun 20, 2020, 03:25 PM

Jun 2020

Hmmmm.

FM123

(10,054 posts)

4. Wow. That is just shameful.

Reply to EleanorR (Original post)

Sat Jun 20, 2020, 03:15 PM

Jun 2020

I hope KY Dems just go full force with mail in ballots!

stopdiggin

(11,384 posts)

6. I'd like to see a link to real news here

Reply to EleanorR (Original post)

Sat Jun 20, 2020, 03:25 PM

Jun 2020

Edit to provide link:
there -- not so hard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kentucky-braces-for-possible-voting-problems-in-tuesdays-primary-amid-signs-of-high-turnout/

WaPo, Jun 19 --- On Thursday evening, a federal judge rejected an effort to add polling places in the state’s largest counties, citing a legal standard discouraging last-minute court intervention in election procedures.

That means Jefferson County — the state’s largest, home to 767,000 residents and the city of Louisville — will have as its sole polling location a convention and expo center where voting booths have been set up about eight feet apart in a cavernous hall. About 1 in 5 residents in the county is African American, the largest black population in the state.

In Fayette County, the state’s second-largest county and home to Lexington, voters who want to cast ballots in person will have to head to the football field at the University of Kentucky, where voters will find hand-sanitizing stations and booths where they can fill out paper ballots and scan them through machines.

snip ---In Jefferson County, elections officials have mailed out 218,404 absentee ballots — far exceeding the total primary turnout in 2016 of 138,619 voters. That means one-third of registered voters in Jefferson County have requested absentee ballots or already returned them, said Nore J. Ghibaudy, county clerk spokesman.

EleanorR

(2,395 posts)

7. Here

Reply to stopdiggin (Reply #6)

Sat Jun 20, 2020, 03:30 PM

Jun 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kentucky-braces-for-possible-voting-problems-in-tuesdays-primary-amid-signs-of-high-turnout/2020/06/19/b7b960ce-b199-11ea-8f56-63f38c990077_story.html

Fewer than 200 polling places will be open for voters in Kentucky’s primary Tuesday, down from 3,700 in a typical election year. Amid a huge influx in requests for mail-in ballots, some voters still had not received theirs days before they must be turned in. And turnout is expected to be higher than in past primaries because of a suddenly competitive fight for the Democratic Senate nomination.

stopdiggin

(11,384 posts)

8. thank you

Reply to EleanorR (Reply #7)

Sat Jun 20, 2020, 03:42 PM

Jun 2020

as you can see I went back and edited my own post to include

I'm thinking (hoping) that once again D voters will prove that they will not be deterred.
And the massive amount of mail in ballots says people are informed .. and proactive.
Good on us!

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