McDaniel camp and rightwing media cues up the black ‘voter fraud’ bamboozle going into next week’s run-off election.
Postscript: And now right-wing ‘vote fraud’ groups are sending ‘election observers’ to Mississippi to keep an eye on black voters to see that nothing gets out of hand. What could go wrong.
Women’s equality advocate holds vigil as she faces excommunication from the Mormon Church.
We normally think about the ‘vote fraud’ bamboozle and attempts to intimidate and disenfranchise African-American voters coming in contests between Democrats and Republicans. But here we have it within a GOP run-off. The McDaniel campaign and the standard gang of ‘vote fraud’/voter suppression types are sending ‘election observers’ down to Mississippi to patrol heavily African-American precincts in Tuesday’s run-off.
In addition to the rank and toxic politics of ‘vote fraud’ bamboozlement and voter suppression of African-American votes from the likes of J Christian Adams and crew (remember, this was actually what was at the heart of the US Attorney firing scandal), you’ve also got a completely different, but related story, which is that Democrats at the national and local level are furious that local Dems are working to get Dems to crossover and save Thad Cochran’s bacon in tomorrow’s run-off.
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This seems to have been postponed. But the top ‘Open Carry’ group apparently plans to march armed through a black neighborhood in Houston. Should go great.
Mississippi lacks an impeccable voting rights history. But the state’s AG and Secretary of State have stepped to make clear that Tea Party SuperPacs or any SuperPacs have no right under state law to send ‘election observers’ to state polling places. So it seems the aggressive effort to harass/intimidate the state’s African-American voters tomorrow may have taken a bit of a hit.
Noted without comment.
Sen. Thad Cochran (R): “I think it’s important for everybody to participate. Voting rights has been an issue of great importance in Mississippi. People have really contributed a lot of energy and effort to making sure the political process is open to everyone.”
Mormon Church excommunicates founder of prominent women’s rights group.