Hannah Gebresilassie, an impetuous activist from 30 years ago with a significant number of battles, said she had much to show for the historic city of Georgia, the former Conservative feud, dio in the urns last November. También, in the electoral district that the Republicans had impulsive despot and that he had converted, came no, in his new front of war. Gebresilassie is taking months to vote on the motion in those communes that normally involve -the blacks and other minorities, as well as the disadvantaged ones-, in a campaign that concludes: “We have many organizations involved in this , we walk in the car to the colleges and the people who need it, we assure them that it is the day that it touches, we give pizza and water to those who eat cola… ”.
With the new legislation, this will ultimately be a delict. Georgia’s Electoral Integrity Ley, approved by a Republican mayor’s state chamber on March 25, puts a series of restrictions in the vote for all, because, as a result, complicates the suffering of the most disadvantaged collectives, in the that the Democrats are signaling as a deliberate maneuver to increase the participation of the blacks in particular, that will be keyed in the progressive turn of the last comics.
Between other changes, the standard expands the territories for the early and correct vote, but shortens the space (from 180 to 78 days) for application and requires an identification with the photograph obtained; reduce the number of vouchers for depositors by 2020, when implanted during the pandemic; to know that it is possible to vote in the form of anticipation more than the seat of the moon and the seat of the night and allow the conditions to be reduced to a greater time: the cloud of the moon and five of the late. Refuse, moreover, the power of the Legislative Chamber over the electoral process, which long awaits the vow of the pulse received alive in the last elections.
Y, in effect, in their traditionally large colas that are formed in the voting booths -algaine, of varias horas- which have to enter comid or baby -if they have 150 pies (45 metro) from the seat or 25 of the cola – will be delinquent. The argument of the legislators consists in that the groups dedicated to this treaty to vote the vote in the final right.
The state’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, assured that the legislation would approve “make it easier to vote and make it harder to take steps”, words that would call for a no-brainer on the traditional electoral fraud of conservative 2020 voters and to paroxysm thanks to a promoter of the lie: the entones president Donald Trump. “People are thinking twice about Georgia becoming a blue ass [el color con el que se identifica al Partido Demócrata en Estados Unidos] and this is a direct response to all its black community and other minorities who want to vote ”, assures Gebresilassie, also of black race.
The activist, Impulsora de Protect the vote GA (Protege el vote de Georgia), habla en plene calle, en una de las grandes arterias que cruza Atlanta, con un cartel en la mano pide justicia para Jamarion Robinson, un joven negro abatido por the police of 2016, in a police operation. During the November 3 elections, various Republican states, such as Iowa, Texas, and Arizona, have been pushing for other electoral reforms of similar characteristics, but in no cobra is this battle as symbolic and fierce as in Georgia, with its history of racial violence and about everything in Atlanta.
Cuna of Martin Luther King and John Lewis, the city occupying the county of Fulton, one of those tierra of tierra donde Donald Trump is the day of media presidency. It is, in addition, the box office insignia of the American economy, such as Coca-Cola or the Delta airline, which is positioned against the law, giving them a parallel dispute and boycott. Georgia is also the place to go, for the first time in decades, the salaries of Democratic senators and, at the very least, the control of Joe Biden’s party in the High Camera of Washington.
For the Republican executor, convert to an obsession. According to the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, when calling the first of the year to insist on his theory of fraud and try to “find” the “11,780 voices”With the result of all the State there will be the voelta. Raffensperger supports the press, but the new one also changes this chapter of history if repeated. With the change, the occupant of this cargo will have less power, then he will have to become a member of the Electoral Council of the State and he will have power to go to the local authorities or the state in charge of the electoral process in case of negligence.
Republicans argue that their law, of course, expands the temperament vote in some territories, guaranteeing the right of corrupt officials and, in spite of water disputes, the workers of the center can prove to be baby. Seguirán haciendo, además, más buzones de voot de los que había in 2016.
Two barbaric icons of the city of Acogen are two poles of thought. One, Tommy Thomas’s, has a habitual parade of notable Republican politicians for years, as he masters the photographs of the parades, between which a large black figure appears with the lump trumpet: “Make America Great Again”. The other, Bobby’s Barbershop, exhibits photographs of Barack Obama, Kamala Harris or the John Lewis Diffusion – one of his client illustrations – including a book by George Floyd’s roster and a cartel with the subject: Black lives matter.
In the first place, Thomas, a man in the middle edad who finds the generation at the front of the business, responds quickly and decisively, as a torrent about the lie in dispute: “I want to go, when I go to the bank or go to the plane the booklet to conduct, hasta when I buy a liquor bottle, to me edad, tengo que enseñarlo. It’s just that the people can solicit the vote at a distance without presenting one, all of them must have a notebook, ”explains the barber.
Personal identification is one of the most difficult issues to understand when it comes to the United States. In this country there is no national identity document. The most common form of identification is the license to produce some other type of document dispensed by the States, but many cities (including the Brenan Institute and others 11% of the population – usually the older ones, poor or poor ) – cares of them or are not updated, because even with the necessary support documents for obtaining and the process for the loggers a task that can not pay.
Thomas was one of the victims of the Republican error, In his juicio, “he is a fraud, although he has no idea how to change the elections”. “Yo no lo sé exactamente”, añade, “¿nos robaron? Probably, but today is another day. We are the best organizers ”.
From the gate of Bobby’s Barbershop, Samuel Deall, 70 years old, recorded the first vote in Atlanta in 1965, held by soldiers of the National Guard, in a volcanic atmosphere that “could enter an eruption at any moment”. He has not given a haircut or a single time in his life of entones, but many others say: “Any exchange of data that does not notify you to create a problem, many people do not have a computer, and there are more questions, or do not have one The voting center has its own problems and mobility issues, it has many free hours to vote … If you want a good democracy, you can do it all ”.
Organizations such as the Historical Union for the Defense of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the United States (Aclu, in its English flags) or the NAACP (the major defense association of black people), consider that the package of mediations is translated into a Operation “vote suppression” with finist parties and he carried the aid to the tribunals.
The battalion of foundations is of national ambition and the Democrats have responded with the proposal of a common town proposing a common town which, on the contrary, will amplify and blind one to the least access to suffrage throughout the country. También Estados azules, like the Washington Progressives, reacting to state norms that could expand the vote of excommunication. For Cliff Albright, executive director of Black Voters Matter, “there is, literally, a rebuilding era through the Civil War to have a restrictive tendency like this, as far as history is concerned, the intention of oppression of vote”.
The triple has changed with time. The president, Joe Biden, ” associated the legislation with ‘Jim Crow’, referring to a regulation that would institutionalize racial segregation in the finals of Seal XIX. The MLB (Principal League of Béisbol, according to the English Sails) withdrew from Atlanta the 91st edition of the Party of the Stars. For Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, the organization comet “economic chantje”. But if the final effect of these changes is on verses in the ballot box, the restrictions that some states have imposed on them in recent years on the basis of personal identifications are being answered by a mayor who is trying to mobilize Democrats. The participation in 2020 beat a record of 120 years. Between Democrats and between Republicans.
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