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orangenblue

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I think the following article explains how the term is being used now


From the USA Today (1/26/2021) copied verbatim

It’s a breeze for Georgians in white neighborhoods to vote after work. The average line after 7 p.m. only takes six minutes in precincts that are 90% white. It’s a much longer slog in polling places that are 90% non-White. The average wait after 7 p.m.? Fifty-one minutes.

In mail-in voting states like Washington and Oregon, voters can easily deposit their ballots in one of thousands of conveniently located dropboxes. In Texas, officials allowed one box per county (some the size of small states), and now some lawmakers have proposed eliminating them all together.

Officials in Ridgeland, Miss., a majority White suburb of Jackson, quietly resegregated voting precincts this summer. More than 2,500 largely Black and Hispanic residents who had long voted at the local recreation center were shuffled, most without notification, to a precinct about 10 minutes away. Just under 2,500 voters, almost entirely white, voted at the rec center, plush with several hundred parking spots and eight to 10 voting machines. The new largely Black precinct, meanwhile, served some 3,700 voters, with just 25 parking spaces and five machines.


(In response to this post by TomKazanski)

Posted: 01/26/2021 at 11:12PM



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Could someone explain what “voting rights” -- TomKazanski 01/26/2021 10:48PM
  VFDS alert! ** -- BonsackHoo 01/27/2021 07:12AM
  Why ** -- WaxHoo 01/26/2021 11:22PM
  Is that yet another whaddabout, racist? ** -- Hoodafan 01/27/2021 09:05AM
  Duhthat, is that you? -- TomGlansAski 01/27/2021 09:39AM
  Then maybe you shouldn't be such a racist? ** -- Hoodafan 01/27/2021 09:45AM
  Hey racist, let's use the term appropriately, racist. ** -- TomGlansAski 01/27/2021 10:01AM
  Link, racist? -- TomGlansAski 01/27/2021 12:46PM
  🦗 🦗 🦗 🦗 ** -- TomGlansAski 01/27/2021 12:24AM
  No, you don’t. You don’t want to know. ** -- 111Balz 01/27/2021 07:50AM

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