NAACP accuses Mississippi country clerk of failing to process thousands of voter registrations
Source: Raw Story
Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson announced at a press conference Tuesday morning that an unknown number of voter registrations have gone missing in Hinds County, Mississippi, and urged voters to cast what is known as an affidavit ballot if they arrive at the polls and find that they are not listed. According to the Jackson Free Press, Johnson made the announcement at a press event promoting the NAACPs Mississippi voter help line, a service designed to help voters fight irregularities and suspected wrongdoing at the polls.
Recently, the NAACP held a massive voter registration drive, which added some 10,000 new voters to Hinds County registers, but as of Friday, many of the names were not yet listed in the voter registration database.
Hinds County Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn told the Free Press, We worked until 5 oclock Saturday (Oct. 6), the deadline for voter registrations in Jackson and Hinds County, and that voters whose registrations were not been processed on time do not have any recourse through her office.
The NAACPs Johnson insisted that his group turned in the registration forms before Oct. 6 and that they should have been processed. The organization has received multiple calls, he said, from voters whose registrations had not been completed.
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" Johnson) urged voters to file an affidavit ballot, which will be counted when their registration is verified."
Actionman
(115 posts)We worked until 5 oclock Saturday (Oct. 6), the deadline for voter registrations in Jackson and Hinds County, and that voters whose registrations were not been processed on time do not have any recourse through her office.
Ok so they have the registration in hand on time but because they wanted to leave they didn't process. This the kind of thing that will continue to happen if these people are not ARRESTED and successfully PROSECUTED!
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)(from the Raw Story article):
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In spite of the multiple lapses, Dunn cites her personal touch as the reason she continues to be elected to the position of County Circuit Clerk.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)depraved indifference to established law also comes to mind.
Or maybe she keeps getting elected because she uses her "personal touch" to make votes against her disappear. She reeks of someone who feels they are entitled to keep their elected position as if it's her personal duchy.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)burnsei sensei
(1,820 posts)straight to hell.
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)I am so sick and tired of these cheaters.
Create jobs; Fill the private prisons with these traitors !!!!!
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)One of the guys said that he just got called for jury duty last week and received a check. All of the people doing affidavits were black and most of the people who go to my precinct are black, so that makes me suspicious.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Same stuff, different decade.
inamatteroftime
(135 posts)wow, she thinks she's untouchable. Hope this blows up really big and she has to pay lots of $$$ out of her pocket, since that seems to be the consequence of malfeasance in Miss.
Jack Sprat
(2,500 posts)or anyone else depriving another citizen of their right to vote. These fines don't seem to faze them. They go right back and do it again and again.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)And her right to hold any public office above that of a prisoner picking up trash along the roadside!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)in addition to the ones noted in the article, since the reason we're aware of these is that the NAACP can and does follow through while individuals might just give up.
Glad the NAACP is making this public and is fighting for the rights of people to register and vote.