“I certainly have no idea how any of this could have happened,” commission administrator James Johnson said.
beat ya
This is a wonderful Affirmative Action sort of thing which allows people of color to make up for the hundreds of years of voting they missed because of Republican Slaveholders. The Fords are offering the deceased and their families a god-given chance to correct this injustice. Of course, who better than the Fords would know how the deceased would have voted, had they not been maliciously prevented by dastardly white male Republican slave owners?
This is not a racist point of view, because the Fords, being sort of African-American, cannot be racists. Ophelia points out that the same theory applies to White Women, for example.
This is also of course, a crystal clear reason why Alito must not be confirmed to the SCOTUS. One can be sure he would find all sorts of pettifoggery and legaljammery to prevent plain and simple justice from being done by trying to take back this most important civil right from people whose ancestors are still dead.