This Election is Going to be a Vote Suppression Bacchanalia
Let's stop counting Biden's brain cells, and start counting vigilantes. This election is going to be a Vote Suppression Bacchanalia \u2014 I\u2019ve never seen anything like it. Mark Elias, who's considered the number one voting rights attorney these days, has said it\u2019s is a virus coming out of Georgia. And it is.\nBefore the last election we found that under a little-noticed provision of Georgia\u2019s 2021 voting restriction law, SB202, 88 GOP operatives had filed challenges to block a breathtaking 180,000 voters from having their ballots counted. One woman alone had challenged a staggering 32,379 voters in Cobb County.\nThis new Georgia law circumvented restrictions on states removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of an election, by allowing individuals to challenge an unlimited number of voters. And now this vigilante vote challenge tactic is spreading to other swing states.\n\n\nThe organization that created the challenge lists is a group out of Texas called True the Vote.\xa0In Georgia in 2022, when they first launched this vigilante game, they had 88 vigilante vote challengers, now they have an army of 44,000\xa0operating in battleground states across the US.\n\xa0\n\nBut understand where this vigilante voter challenge scheme comes from. The Ku Klux Klan created this system in 1946 when they incorporated themselves as Vigilantes Inc. According to the FBI, the Klan challenged every single black voter in many counties in Georgia. And it worked. The Klan got their chief strategist, Eugene Talmadge,\xa0elected governor.\xa0\nHere's the strange thing... In 1946 \u2014 before the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act \u2014 Harry Truman's FBI was about to arrest\xa0Talmadge\xa0for leading this mass attack on Black voters, but days before they were going to arrest him,\xa0Talmadge drank himself to death.\xa0So, it was illegal in 1946, and now we have the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Civil Rights Act, and somehow\xa0mass challenges of voters of color are\xa0perfectly fine with our federal courts?!?\n\n\nThe NAACP and Reverend Jesse Jackson, of Rainbow PUSH, have begged Biden to sign an executive order to stop these vigilante vote challenges. They're\xa0a clear violation of federal law, even without the Voting Rights Act. They're also a violation of our Constitution. And that's what the FBI under Harry Truman thought \u2014 so why isn't the FBI saying the same thing today?\xa0It was illegal in 1946, and it ought to be illegal now.\xa0\n\xa0\nFor more on this, subscribe to our newsletter.