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Georgia s New Voting Law Is Rife With Hidden Horrors

When we first reported that handing a slice of pizza to a voter waiting three hours in a line is now a felony in Georgia, other media quickly picked up the story, highlighting the cruelty of Georgia Republicans making predominantly Black voters suffer from hunger and thirst in lines the GOP deliberately made long by closing polling stations in majority-Black precincts. But the food-in-line prohibition is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to horrific provisions hidden in the 95 pages of Georgia’s new anti-voting law. Donald Trump infamously demanded the Georgia secretary of state “find 11,780” votes. The MAGA crowd in the Georgia legislature found 364,541 votes to cancel, that is, voters whose ballots would be blocked from the count in the next election.

Voter Suppression: Jim Crow Revisited

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY-Ever since its founding, the United States has been attempting to build a society around those wounds, on the belief that hyped-up language “all men are created equal,” and so forth can paper over deep wrongs. If you put the ideal in writing, you can ignore its absence in real life.  The quote above is from Deborah Scott, writing for a publication of St. Joseph’s Parish in Wilmington, Del. She goes on to note that, except for Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa,  the United States reigns supreme when it comes to legislation and traditions that have undergirded systemic and racially divisive policies and practices designed to subjugate a particular group of people. It bears repeating that this has been the case for over 400 years. 

Greg Palast on the pizza vote buying scandal in Georgia – Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services

by Buzzflash [ Editor’s Note: Greg Palast is a muckraker in the old context, the kind we use to see in the big city news rooms before those publications had the kibosh put on them via loss of advertising by major companies. This trend was eventually traced back to the advice of people friendly with a small country in the Mid East, the ad agencies that handled the major accounts. The threat of losing an account like General Motors had instant effect. Georgia, and the Atlanta metro area had built itself up quite a reputation as a modern progressive city. While I was living there in the mid 80’s, it had become the mecca for rising black professionals.

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