[meandog]

Wonder if GA's SINdy McKinney will pull the same trick when she loses...?

[meandog]

Thoughts?

[tomkat]

LaTosha Brown / Yusuf Salaam

my, what a choice the folks in that district have, ehh ??

fercrisesake ...

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[Dakmar]

Does the secret ballot not apply to primaries, or don't they have that in Alabama?

[mikesmad]

The couple of things that stick out to me are:

Why the hell does the GOP allow crossover voting if the Dem's don't? How stupid.

It scares me to death that a political party has the authority to basically act as judge, jury, and executioner in this matter. Frightning.

[sandydipper]

What? An african PO'd withn another african? There is just NO justice here.

[Illbay]

...white voters who have been forced to testify before a legal panel of Democratic Party officials.

So which was it? A LEGAL panel or a DEMOCRAT PARTY panel?

The two are mutually exclusive. The Democrat Party has no legal authority to decide who votes in its primary. If they have a problem with it, let 'em take it to the Alabama courts.

If I were a voter asked to appear before this kangaroo court, I'd simply refuse.

[What Is Ain't]

Republican voters prefer his moderate views to what they consider Brown's "racially divisive" rhetoric.

But Brown claims the election was unfair.

"I certainly feel that there is an effort led in the white community to sabotage the campaign," she said.

I wonder where her constituents get the idea she is "racially divisive" and want to get rid of her? Baffling.

[connectthedots]

If I was in this situation and got called to testify, I would simply say I voted for Brown, and because I mistakenly thought I could vote in that election, please take my vote off of Brown's total. :-)

[newgeezer]

Brown, who is African-American, held on to her base of liberal, black voters.

Can anyone explain the reason for Fox's inconsistent treatment? If I'm writing/editing the story, the only way I'm doing that is if she's on record as calling herself A-A (if even then).

[Richard Axtell]

I would have to say, yes.. I do see racism in this situation, and I recommend that Latosha Brown stop trying to use her same old worn out divisive racist tactics to steal this election.

[Southack]

"Many voters have admitted to crossing parties during the runoff, but insist they had no idea it was illegal.
...
Brown and her attorneys say ignorance of the law is no excuse."

Brown and her attorneys need to learn the LAW themselves.

Crossover voting is against Democratic Party rules, not Alabama law. Violating an organization's rules is VASTLY different than violating a law.

Voter intimidation and the demand for knowing how someone voted on a secret ballot, however, could easily be against the law.

Not that there is a reporter in America smart enough and gutsy enough to point that out, however...

[hattend]

Brown, who is African-American, held on to her base of liberal, black voters. But Salaam, who is both black and Muslim, attracted a large number of moderate to conservative white voters in the runoff.

I don't get it. Is Salaam African-American too? Or Arabian-American? Or just American?

Whiney liberals...a pox on them.

[goldstategop]

The Rats are so intolerant of a moderate Rat winning their own party's primary that they have to corall and round up and subject voters to the Inquisition to determine why the liberal lost? Pinch me I must dreaming. This doesn't sound like America. More evidence if one needed it, that liberals consider Republicans something to put away in jail or to be scraped off their shoes.

[stylin19a]

Why can't I change parties any time I want to ?
Can't I be a Republican on June 10th, then decide I want to be a Democrat and 'lo & behold, there is a Rat runoff on June 26th ?
I'm SCHOCKED, SHOCKED that a case such as this could be considered illegal shennanigans !!