I lived in a majority-black voter ward & got purged every yr-Then I Moved To majority-white ward &..

[kpete]

You know, back when I lived in a majority-black voter ward, I got purged from the voter rolls every single year. And every year, I had to trudge back to the registrar of voters, and show them a driver's license and two months of utility bills to prove that I still lived where I was registered. It's why I didn't vote from 1999-2001. I just got sick of re-proving my residence over and over.

My first reaction was: "Fucking incompetent bureaucratic machine"

Then, I moved to a majority-white voter ward ... I registered once. I haven't been purged once in the past seven years.

I used to say: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

I'm now inclined to chalk the purging up to malice.

http://de.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/10adcv/threefifths_of_milwaukees_black_voters_have/c6bslvr

[PDJane]

1. That one is malice, not stupidity.

Pre-mediated malice.

[Tigress DEM]

2. Just a guess, Ohio?

[surrealAmerican]

3. The link says Milwaukee.

[dragonlady]

6. The person who wrote this appears to live in Louisiana

Clinking on the link goes to a reddit page and this portion is written by someone called BiscuitCrisps. Other writing by him refers to Louisiana. The Slate article he was responding to said that a large percentage of African American Milwaukee voters have "disappeared" since the last election. This refers not to voter purging but to the fact that these voters have moved and are not at the address that the campaign's voter list has for them.

Those voters have to reregister to vote at their new address. The Milwaukee Election Commission has trained probably hundreds of deputy registrars to register people in the community so that they will not have to take the time to reregister at the polls on election day. I've found that well over half of the voters I've registered were changed addresses, not new voters.

[heaven05]

4. America

will some in amerikkka ever get over their racism and STUPIDITY???? We should be light years from this type of behavior. We should as MY Presidents says. " be the UNITED states of america.

[progressoid]

5. rec!

[barbtries]

7. specifically republican malice

which they bear toward democracy itself. very sad.