Cenk Uygur
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Republicans Sending Cops Door To Door To Suppress Black Vote
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August 2, 2016
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8:13Now PlayingThree years ago the Supreme Court decided that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was no longer necessary because racism is over. Republicans are now doing everything they can think of to disenfranchise black people. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"When the deputy sheriff’s patrol cruiser pulled up beside him as he walked down Broad Street at sunset last August, Martee Flournoy, a 32-year-old black man, was both confused and rattled. He had reason: In this corner of rural Georgia, African-Americans are arrested at a rate far higher than that of whites.
But the deputy had not come to arrest Flournoy. Rather, he had come to challenge Flournoy’s right to vote.
The majority-white Hancock County Board of Elections and Registration was systematically questioning the registrations of more than 180 black Sparta citizens – a fifth of the city’s registered voters – by dispatching deputies with summonses commanding them to appear in person to prove their residence or lose their voting rights. “When I read that letter, I was kind of nervous,” Flournoy said in an interview. “I didn’t know what to do.”
The board’s aim, a lawsuit later claimed, was to give an edge to white candidates in Sparta’s municipal elections – and that November, a white mayoral candidate won a narrow victory.”*
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