What election chief calls mistake, NAACP calls discrimination (GA)

[zonkers]

Terrell County - Confusion over voting districts in Terrell County leads to charges of discrimination. Rudolph Oliver has voted in Ward one in Dawson since 2004, when redistricting took place.

He most recently voted there in the July primary. This year, he decided to run for city council. Five days after qualifying, he was informed that he could not run in Ward One, because he actually lives in Ward Two.

Now the NAACP wants the Secretary of State's office to investigate and figure out what went wrong. Edward O. DuBose, GA NAACP Conference President, says "We're looking at the pattern of Dawson, Georgia. The pattern of how African American candidates have been excluded from races."

http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=5461316&nav=5kZQ

[MadMaddie]

1. What is sad is that the Repugs spend so much time

trying to exclude people of all stripes.....that the country suffers from their childishness...

[Judi Lynn]

2. This is some real chicanery. People need a decent explanation

for this, and it doesn't as if it's possible.