In several heavily African American districts around the country, Republican operatives took a page right out of the Jim Crow-Jesse Helms playbook, calling voters to tell them their precinct location had changed when it hadn’t, or warning them they risked arrest if they showed up to vote, or trying to talk them into believing the election was on Wednesday, not Tuesday. In heavily African-American Buckingham County, Virginia, a widely circulated flyer announced in bold letters: “SKIP THIS ELECTION”.
It’s Time For Fair, Reliable Elections – TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime
We need legislation against this.
