Posted on 08/02/2020 5:10:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DETROIT -- Despite fears that the coronavirus pandemic will worsen, Victor Gibson said he’s not planning to take advantage of Michigan’s expanded vote-by-mail system when he casts his ballot in November.
The retired teacher from Detroit just isn’t sure he can trust it. Many Black Americans share similar concerns and are planning to vote in person on Election Day, even as mail-in voting expands to more states as a safety precaution during the pandemic.
For many, historical skepticism of a system that tried to keep Black people from the polls and worries that a mailed ballot won’t get counted outweigh the prospect of long lines and health dangers from a virus that’s disproportionately affected communities of color. Ironically, suspicion of mail-in voting aligns with the views of President Donald Trump, whom many Black voters want out of office.
Decades of disenfranchisement are at the heart of the uneasy choice facing Black voters, one of the Democratic Party’s most important voting groups. Widespread problems with mail-in ballots during this year’s primary elections have added to the skepticism at a time when making Black voices heard has taken on new urgency during a national reckoning over racial injustice.
Patricia Harris of McDonough, Georgia, south of Atlanta, voted in person in the primary and said she will do the same in November.
“I simply do not trust mail-in or absentee ballots,” said Harris, 73, a retired event coordinator at Albany State University. “After the primary and the results were in, there were thousands of absentee ballots not counted.”
In Georgia, roughly 12,500 mail-in ballots were rejected in the state’s June primary, while California tossed more than 100,000 absentee ballots during its March primary.
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...skepticism of a system that tried to keep Black people from the polls...
...aligns with the views of President Donald Trump, whom many Black voters want out of office.
Decades of racism and voter disenfranchisement...
Good Grief.
Exactly, they feel that ‘their’ vote would be changed to Joe Biden...... MMM wonder if many of them know something? Like this has been the standard Democratic method on every past election.
Well I don’t trust vote by mail either as it allows for too much cheating and I am not black.
It is because Detroit has many black Trump voters.
Its a little thing called chain of custody for which the US Mail ain’t it.
OOPS! Can I get myself and my family murdered for saying that???
The Democrats are screaming about voter suppression now because they know black voters won’t show for Biden or any other Democrat.
Fraud by Mail is what I call Vote by Mail. Early voting is another way to get fraud voting...
No early voting until Biden shows we need POL proof of life.
not just blacks, I don’t know of any whites around here who don’t fear the vote by mail plan.
“...black voters won’t show for Biden or any other Democrat.”
Not for an old white racist? Or a white woman? Or a party supporting illegal immigrant job stealers and faggots?
One hopes BLEXIT is happening.
Democrats have proved to be useless to black people for the last 5 decades. Why would they bother to vote period.
I have a feeling that slowly but surely a lot of blacks are realizing that socialist-democrats-liberals have done very little for them in the past and will do about the same in the future. Not to mention that a lot of the rioting and trouble is stirred up by some white sleazebags, using blacks as pawns.
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