Robin Marty: As we sift through all the victories today, I hope people pay attention to what will likely be the most overlooked Election Day story: that the Blackest, most populous county in Mississippi ran out of ballots and if that could have affected the gubernatorial race… www.sunherald.com/news/politic...

As we sift through all the victories today, I hope people pay attention to what will likely be the most overlooked Election Day story: that the Blackest, most populous county in Mississippi ran out of ballots and if that could have affected the gubernatorial race… www.sunherald.com/news/politic...

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When this happened in Berlin(!) of all places a few years ago our own constitutional courts ordered that the whole election had to be re-run because it was an infringement of the constitutional right to vote.

rightly so either there is democracy or there isn't

Republicans are clear and explicit about how they believe there isn’t and shouldn’t be democracy in the US. They hedge with “republic, instead” but they are also pretty open about not wanting the system to be representative.

the united states has been 'isn't' pretty much the whole time

tbh - most Americans that say this have never experienced life in a dictatorship (I am not an American)

I'm getting to vote in the regional elections once more this year because the ballot for one party was missing from one voting location in my town

You get to vote again after hearing all about Erna's husband's stock trading.

Wouldn't change my vote, but it will be interesting to see the turn-out and if Høgre gets punished

Happens every time in Mississippi. They've been doing this crap on purpose for decades.

"unexpectedly high turnout" Was it though?

Only in the sense that they didn't expect that many voters to get past all the hurdles meant to keep them from voting.

That's possible, I just think they intentionally under-supplied the voting station

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reminder that when Democrats a few years ago called the newest round of Republican voter suppression laws & rules "Jim Crow 2.0" the news media & pundits united in outrage, how dare they say such, and Democrats apologized

“How were we supposed to know how many people might vote? What’re we, the board of elections or something?”

And they were only restocked 100 ballots at a time. Meanwhile there’s a voters registry. No excuses!

They spun this as 'maybe the plan worked', getting more ppl. out to vote, but no one plans without preparing too... even if they're not optimistic their plan will work. Running out of ballots on election day?! Bad look. Highly sus! 🤔 🤨

There needs to be an investigation into what happened there.

That's horrible. I just made a post myself how sad I am that Mississippi can't get out from under the thumb of their theocratic state government. I didn't know about this, but it's also no surprise that those "good Christians" cheat to win.

It's White-o-cratic; any theocracy that happens is just a side effect of which side issues white supremacists do in their spare time.

But of course, can't have electronic machines ....

The corruption is blatant. Last time, they suddenly changed polling places in several of the blackest areas of Hinds (City of Jackson) and Madison counties, IIRC. When the voters would call in to the county clerk's office, they were given wrong directions. It just goes on and on.

Just been reading 'The Trees' and this sounds like something Mama Z should be chronicling.

Will there be an investigation?

probably into the newsrooms reporting it

I suppose the Justice Dept is running out of resources after having to pursue SO much absolute crap these past few years. J6, #45, etc.

No joke, there have been so many early retirements, not just in leadership but in the rank and file.

Ahhhhhhhhhh, democracy!

Omg

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