Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Its Canton. What a surprise.

Just got this message from a Canton voter:
South Liberty Baptist Church polling place.  was in line a little before 7 AM with about 30 others when two black women walked up to the line of voters.  They started handing each black voter a piece of light colored paper telling them "here,  take this absentee ballot ". One of the male voters in line shooed them away.... told them they couldn't be within 175 ft of the door...... they said.... Oh we are Just late... we were supposed to be standing but the road.  We had to make sure they Got these. Something needs to be done! I contacted Lee Westbrook and Delbert Hoseman's office. 

Then I got this message from someone who voted over at Raymond Precinct 1. They were moved to the Methodist Church:

When I was waiting to have my named marked off in "the book" 4 people ahead of me was a young black male. Didn't pay much attention to the conversion with the him and the poll worker till I heard her tell him that his name was not in the book and he would have to vote absentee ballot.  After explaining which line to move to, next one over, he proceeds to leave the building altogether. I thought that was very strange. When I finally made it to the book I noticed him standing in the hallway smiling... very strange.


Also noticed one of those folks passing out absentee ballots... although he was WELL away from the polls he was ONLY giving them to black voters and would not approach whites... Wonder if the Bennie Thompson shirt had anything to do with it??

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's just dumb. If your name is not in the book, then you have to vote by affidavit ballot, not absentee.

Bill Dees said...

Agreed. I think your "reporters" are just making this stuff up.

ophelia said...

It's Canton, and Raymond, indeed. Luckily these shenanigans won't affect Mississippi's red status. It's "Forty Acres and a Mule!" all over again, only that policy for "persuading" our brethren and sistren of colour to vote a certain way would be useless today. Acreage and livestock imply a desire to TOIL for one's livelihood, a concept perfectly foreign to most of these "voters", registered and ID'ed or not...

Kingfish said...

Go to hell Bill. I know one of these people and its consistent with what went on in Canton earlier this year. Just cuz you don't like it doesn't meant they are lying.

I'm aware it should be affidavit ballots if needed but that doesn't mean the people passing them out were doing it the right way or were outright lying and trying to commit voter fraud.

Steve said...

I voted at this same church around 10:30 that morning. Nobody was "passing out absentee ballots" or anything of the sort. I voluntarily showed my identification, voted and was on my way. I have been voting at this same church for quite a while and have never witnessed any of this. I do still believe that it happens...and that is quite sad.

Anonymous said...

We didn't have any problem voting other than they had my husband sign on the wrong side of the sheet and they failed to reset the card after he voted and I got ready to vote. Other than that, Canton voting in my precinct was going okay. We were the first two to vote at 7 that morning.



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