Posted on 03/05/2020 8:36:16 AM PST by yesthatjallen
The country's oldest Latino civil rights organization on Thursday denounced voter suppression incidents in areas with large minority populations during Tuesday's primary elections in 14 states.
The president of the group said areas with large Latino communities experiences the biggest barriers to vote on Super Tuesday's slate of primaries.
"Latinos have become the largest minority voting bloc in 2020, and our community is at the heart of the voting base in states like California and Texas. Yet, it is precisely in the largest minority communities around the country –specifically districts where the Latino vote makes the difference – that we are witnessing the biggest barriers for people to vote," said Domingo García, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
More than half the country's Hispanic population lives in California and Texas, where thousands of voters encountered long lines, closed or relocated polling stations, and malfunctioning voting machines.
In California, new polling machines received mixed reviews, as some voters applauded the machines while others blamed the new system for long lines that forced stations open past closing time, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
Voters in Texas also encountered long lines in a state that's led the South in polling station closures over the past year, particularly in minority neighborhoods, according to an analysis by The Guardian.
"The calculated effort to suppress the minority vote during Super Tuesday is a danger to our democracy," said García in a statement.
"In my home state of Texas, we heard from hundreds of minority Americans unable to vote due to too many people at too few polls and malfunctioning machines causing long lines. In California, we also saw how a lack of poll workers delayed lines for hours," he added.
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"Latinos have become the largest minority voting bloc in 2020, and our community is at the heart of the voting base in states like California and Texas.
Once again, Hispanics are claiming to be the center of the universe and native Americans better recognize how important they are...or else.
Who runs California and the cities of Texas? Are the aggrieved asking themselves why Democrats don’t want them to vote?
They sore because the viva la revolucion Che-Castro devotee got trashed by Biden?
So let me get this straight: long lines discriminate?
I guess Six Flags is the heart of racism in Texas....
(Well, not on 100 degree days ... lines are really short on 100 degree days ... I know. Walked up to most every ride....)
Stop your belly aching. If proof of citizenship were required, the lines would be much shorter in TX and CA.
Who runs California and the cities of Texas? Are the aggrieved asking themselves why Democrats don’t want them to vote?
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My question, too.
At one polling station in Houston, a voter stood in line from 6:59 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. That’s inexcusable.
The election officials should all be fired.
Black and Latino RATs are just pawns being used by the White leftist oligarchy that still runs and controls the Democrat Party. Of course they don’t see it that way, but that’s reality!
“At one polling station in Houston, a voter stood in line from 6:59 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.”
That is just hard to believe. I voted in Houston and ZERO wait. Now I admit, I went in a 2:30 pm and did not wait until one minute before the polls closed. So what do I know.
That’s Houston County Georgia.
The six hour lines to vote were in Houston, Texas.
LOL!....................TRUE!.................
Do they know it was a Democrat primary? They are supposed to cry racism when the contest is between Republicans and Democrats
Oh, whoops. Back to Google ...
Highly unlikely. The Democrats are taking their BS tactics for elections to the primaries. More planned chaos.
At one polling station in Houston, a voter stood in line from 6:59 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. That’s inexcusable.
Apparently Latinos haven’t figured out how to request mail in ballets. That or they just prefer to bitch and moan about something.
I did not mean to imply I did not believe you. I was trying to relay that my experience was the complete opposite. Now I would imagine the general election will be much worse.
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