d: Nobody nowhere has the power to do whatever they want, but they have as much power as the people of any other city.
Not when their own party isn't in charge of how voter polls are handled on the state level.
PFT: The fact, for instance, that black precincts voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates did not prevent many of those same black precincts from seeing massive voter suppression in Florida in 2000. dd: move them goalposts! we're not talking about florida 2000, we're talking about the plight of inner city blacks in cities run for and by democrats.
And the 2000 election provides a well known example of how precincts run by Democrats are victimized by voter suppression.
PFT: The people calling the shots about the poll lists were not Democrats, but the Republican state attorney general and her people. d: who cares? this isn't the topic of discussion.
Given that we're discussing how voter suppression works, it most certainly is on topic.
Paft: Voter caging, removing names from the voter rolls, sometimes sending out deceptive flyers to black neighborhoods, assigning a deliberately low number of voting machines, or making sure the machines shipped to those districts are badly maintained and prone to breakdowns... d: "democrat stongholds" have the majority. any voter suppression would more likely be against non-democrat voterss.
In other words, you don't have a clue about how voter suppression works. It's not the local precincts that determine who gets on the voter rolls, what voting machines get assigned, or how many. Nor do they have the power to prevent Republican operatives from sending out deceptive mailers to local residents.
Paft: Are black voters, as a group, more stupid and gullible than white voters? d: already asked and answered.
No it wasn't, and you know it.
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Date: 19/3/11 18:34 (UTC)Not when their own party isn't in charge of how voter polls are handled on the state level.
PFT: The fact, for instance, that black precincts voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates did not prevent many of those same black precincts from seeing massive voter suppression in Florida in 2000.
dd: move them goalposts! we're not talking about florida 2000, we're talking about the plight of inner city blacks in cities run for and by democrats.
And the 2000 election provides a well known example of how precincts run by Democrats are victimized by voter suppression.
PFT: The people calling the shots about the poll lists were not Democrats, but the Republican state attorney general and her people.
d: who cares? this isn't the topic of discussion.
Given that we're discussing how voter suppression works, it most certainly is on topic.
Paft: Voter caging, removing names from the voter rolls, sometimes sending out deceptive flyers to black neighborhoods, assigning a deliberately low number of voting machines, or making sure the machines shipped to those districts are badly maintained and prone to breakdowns...
d: "democrat stongholds" have the majority. any voter suppression would more likely be against non-democrat voterss.
In other words, you don't have a clue about how voter suppression works. It's not the local precincts that determine who gets on the voter rolls, what voting machines get assigned, or how many. Nor do they have the power to prevent Republican operatives from sending out deceptive mailers to local residents.
Paft: Are black voters, as a group, more stupid and gullible than white voters?
d: already asked and answered.
No it wasn't, and you know it.