#voting while black

[kyrianne]

[Image ID: A series of screenshots from a Twitter thread by Jason Coupet / professajay.

Text begins: Man voting in Georgia is so different than in Illinois. When I lived in chicago, during early voting, I went to the local elementary school, waited in line about ten minutes, and they gave me a sheet of paper. I checked people off then I put it in the machine and left.

Not Georgia. We drove downtown because *every* other polling place had a line >90 minutes. We paid ten bucks to park. We went in the building, then emptied out pockets to go through a metal detector. We then saw a sign about where to park to get our parking validated. Inside.

We then waited in line ~80 minutes. We got to the end and we were given a form to fill out (?). We were told *not* to sign it until told. Then we were moved into a waiting room where we were given a ticket number, like when you are at the dmv.

We were told to get our IDs out and wait. We waited here for 15-20 minutes. When your number is called they took your form, did some stuff on the computer, then told you to sign the form. Then you get a little green card. You insert it into the machine.

Then you go through three or four prompts, including a very serious™️ warning about perjury, a totally necessary warning given how huge a problem stolen identity is for the purposes of voting on behalf of someone else.

You then finally vote, and after an “are you sure” prompt you get a sheet. You then have to walk the sheet over to feed it into a machine. About half of these were working.

The bottleneck was clearly the weird application and waiting room thing. There are two dozen people at a time sitting to have their stuffed checked. Think of it as regular voting except when you got there they had to run a credit check for *each person* like you need financing.

It was easier finishing my PhD paperwork. Thankful for the kind people (nearly all black women) the shepherded the processes. But man if you are poor or disabled or whatever, good luck yo. That should have been easier. We finished tho. Text ends.

Image ID: Two Black people are standing beside a city street and smiling at the camera, a man and a woman. The man has close-cropped hair and a beard. He is wearing a black hoodie that says Southside and has a sticker on his chest with a peach on it. The woman has large tortoiseshell browline glasses and long twist locs. She has a light brown leather crossbody bag, and is wearing a salmon-colored windbreaker. She also has a peach sticker on her chest, which she is pointing to. Her hand has a wedding ring. End ID]

[8-rock]

On this election day, there are lots of forces at work to keep Black people from getting to the polls. Or, if we do cast a vote, to keep that vote from being counted. Let's not make it easy. Turn up at the polls and bring a friend (or two or three).  

VOTE! #Election2022 

Voting While Black: https://bit.ly/LWBlack

[ausetkmt]

https://x.com/PDeniseLong/status/1702030861565096045?t=LUg3PzqI1pP6EBXNfVV3ug&s=09

[the-happy-man]

More than 3 million Ohioans have their driver’s license suspended each year because of outstanding debt, according to an analysis from the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland.

[briarrolfe]

Our 78 year old Italian neighbour Josie might not remember my name, and may never get my pronouns right, but the thing is: We Are Besties and I am totally obsessed with her. She blasts disco music 24 hours a day. She chain smokes. She is so obsessed with Vegemite that she cut a holiday visiting family back home short because she was seized by Cravings. She took her first ever selfie with me. She flirts with my fiancé. Once I had to rescue her from her finding a lizard in her toaster. She drinks her first coffee of the day at like 4 am. Recently she told me “if anyone tries to take you away from me… I will kill them” with total seriousness and I fully reciprocate it. She is a constant source of chaos in our lives. I would do anything for her and I love her with all my heart

[honeyviscera]

im very sorry women. i dont think kotoko should be voted innocent 😔

[codecicle]

Hey bestie voted for the one and only JuanaFlippa!! Could I perhaps have our girl as a DnD DM ? (She would cause so much chaos just like her father lmao)

she's saying this because charlie made another character that he didn't realize would fall in gay love and then his character Fell In Gay Love

‼️ vote for either flippa or grizzly in the transmcytshowdown and send proof to get a little doodle of your request ‼️

[odinsblog]

A study of police data showed that Black cyclists are stopped up to three times as often as whites.

A study done in December 2022 by Jonathan Manicham and Kevin Morris found that in Hillsboro County Florida, if you get stopped by the police for even a traffic violation within a certain window before an election, it reduces voter turnout by two percent in the targeted demographic.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis grabbed headlines throughout 2022 for practices that weakened democracy—from creating a police force to monitor voting to coordinating the arrests of people who allegedly voted illegally after the state told them they were eligible. In August, he suspended Tampa’s elected prosecutor, Democrat Andrew Warren, over his stated refusal to prosecute cases relating to abortion and trans rights, overriding voters’ decision.

But a host of more routine decisions made by Florida officials may be undermining the health of the state’s elections as well, even when they don’t seem directly related to voting rights.

To replace Warren as state attorney of Hillsborough County (home to Tampa), DeSantis appointed Susan Lopez, a member of the conservative Federalist Society. One of Lopez’s first decisions was to rescind a policy implemented by Warren to not prosecute bicyclists and pedestrians for certain traffic charges. A 2015 Tampa Bay Times report exposed the Tampa police department’s relentless ticketing of Black cyclists for things like having inadequate lighting, or riding on handlebars, a dynamic local organizers have labeled “bicycling while Black.” The report catalyzed a Justice Department investigation which ultimately confirmed the disproportionate enforcement.

New research shows how such low-level interactions with the police can undercut our democracy by reducing the number of people who participate in elections. A study I co-authored with fellow researcher Kevin Morris, published in December in the American Political Science Review, finds that traffic stops by police stops in Hillsborough County reduced voter turnout in 2014, 2016, and 2018 federal elections.

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[acacia-may]

Black Clover fandom, can you please help me out and settle an arguement a discussion a friend of mine irl and I have been having? Thanks! 😊

[answrs]

anyway since this apparently needs to be said again, anyone insisting it is immoral to vote in any election, especially not the US Presidential election this year, is getting immediately reported and blocked for election interference on-sight.

get the absolute fuck off my blog if you think "actively campaigning on dictatorship and having me and anyone like me raped and then murdered the moment he's installed" and "not liberal enough but can be pressured into it" are "def the same!!!1!!"

[guideaus]

Not to be dramatic, but how is this man doing so much in this one state. I feel like I log on every day and see a new update where he's signed a bill where women can't think about periods or black people can't talk abt history or trans people can't exist

[the-happy-man]

It is “the most important case for American democracy in the almost two and a half centuries since America’s founding,” J Michael Luttig, a well-respected, retired conservative federal judge wrote in the Atlantic earlier this year.

“Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution,” wrote Luttig, who recently signed on as co-counsel for litigants opposing the theory.

For "independent state legislature" theory to be valid, there would be no Article V of the U.S. Constitution. There is. It isn't.

[vivaciousoceans]

I absolutely refuse to take on the mantle of being the savior of “democracy” in America, find someone else to do it

[volinare]

i called out... like right before my shift too. i am truly a monster. like they're going to have to find someone to cover my trucks. i just can't. like yesterday wasn't even that bad and i've been having fun, i enjoy the job i enjoy working and i just.

[beepborpdoodledorp]

Can I ask, out of genuine curiosity, why Devsisters didn’t break up the Cookie of the Year votings by rarity instead of shoving all the Cookies into one vote? The top six Cookies are currently all Epic+ Cookies - in fact, the only one who isn’t an Ancient/Legendary is Sherbet, who is still a Super Epic. As sad as it is that not a single Epic Cookie made it into the final round, it was kind of an inevitability, considering a good chunk of the voters are probably naïve kids thinking that higher rarity is equal to quality. Epic Cookies and lower rarities never really stood a chance outside of a select few, and that’s pretty sad. 

[dynamitedex]

oh no i can't ask twitter if i should do my hair today so here's a poll