I went to vote today in Georgia USA. People showed up wearing bed sheets over them. What is this supposed to communicate exactly??
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2024
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Weird part is they weren't arrested... Like tf? There are police
Report that shit to the Georgia Attorney General. That's voter intimidation. https://law.georgia.gov/resources/election-fraud-complaint-hotline
This is a bit of hyperbole. If there where trying to intimidate voters they wouldn't dress up like ghosts. Stay vigilant but didn't label everything as a conspiracy, some people are just stupid.
edit: I don't live in the US but I have spent a lot of time there. The vast majority of Americans are great people. From an outside perspective, it's a little disturbing to see how quickly this thread devolved into conspiracy. Hanlon's razor and all that. Focus on the many actual threats to US democracy instead of paranoid ghost hunting.
Intimidation comes in all forms. Let's just say that this is not normal behavior around a polling site, and given it's inside it's definitely past barriers for anything beyond casting your own vote. Toss them out, even if they are just lost early Halloweeners.
I disagree, masked people at a voting place carries an implicit threat of violence... this may be some dumb teenagers or it may be crazy sov cit folks... either way their presence absolutely could scare off people intending to vote.
People who are obscuring their identity are usually doing so to avoid notice or repercussions for their actions... I think it's reasonable to expect people in a voting location to be clearly visible and recognizable.
I agree (in most cases). I'm arguing that these folks are more likely stupid than malicious.
I'm uncertain, but it's certainly quite possible these folks were trolling. My main point was that it's not as much about what the folks in sheets intended as much as it's about how they're perceived. Elections are pretty important and people are pretty sensitive right now so even if these folks did it for the lulz they may have actually intimidated and suppressed some votes.
"I have the privilege to be completely oblivious to glaringly obvious racism"
Even if this wasn’t obviously reminiscent of the KKK, just seeing someone hiding their identity while pretending to be a government official is unquestionably enough to make someone feel intimidated and that it’s an unsafe place to vote.
Ghosts in the south look an awful lot like KKK outside of a voting place. Do not mistake this due to the time of year and give this the benefit of the doubt.
By that logic the Pope and the Michelin man look like a members of the KKK
… and if they were hanging around a polling place that might be a problem.
Are the Pope and the Michelin man going into a voting center and filming people with their faces covered?
Be that as it may, people wearing masks or costumes have no place in a polling station.
I'm not arguing they should be wearing masks in a polling station
I know. I did not downvote and I really don't get why people feel the need to. Your comment is completely accurate - it makes no sense to impute any intentions to these people in disguise. My only point was that the people in the photo should not appear like that for the election in any case.
Maybe they watched too much South Park. Dressing as ghosts and burning lowercase Ts on lawns is how they tried to scare the ~~black~~ rich family away in an episode.
If you dont live in America, stfu. We don't care about your opinion on how Americans are acting towards other Americans. Your small exposure to the population means nothing.
Why would they arrest their fellow officers?
Those who work forces are those who burn crosses.
Crosses?! No, those are lowercase it's, for "Time to leave."
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.
So, unfortunately, the police are often not politically neutral and usually skew towards a conservative bent - this is also likely explicitly outside their jurisdiction since it involves a federal election (and America has a really dark history of law enforcement interfering with elections) so, charitably, they may have been unable to act even if they wanted to.
The correct authority in this case would be one of these folks I believe (I'm not a Georgia native):
https://sos.ga.gov/form/stop-voter-fraud
https://law.georgia.gov/resources/election-fraud-complaint-hotline
https://www.eac.gov/voters/register-and-vote-in-your-state?field_state_target_id=18206
In actuality, it might be best to start by just calling these folks (phone number from the page above).
404-656-2871
Now I'm curious on what the laws are. Everyone's familiar with the signage of no campaigning past a certain distance from the polling area, but wouldn't any activity that isn't actual voting related be considered trespassing right now? If an official there told them to leave and they refused, wouldn't that mean the police or sheriff gets involved?
Yea - to clarify I'm not a lawyer and, while I'm legally curious, this isn't something I've read a lot of. I know that during the Civil Rights era Johnson sent the national guard into some voting locations to specifically keep police and sheriffs out... in theory that was resolved with the voting rights act but the Supreme Court decided to effectively repeal most of that so... I dunno. I'd like to clarify that my statement regarding police officers was entirely speculation.
The information about fraud reporting is as accurate as I can manage though - the federal government has a page to look up that information on a state by state basis.
It's a good thing to alert people on, as I'm sure this won't be the lone example of odd activity, in Georgia or other states. The best place to affect votes is at the voting places, and lots of ways to do it, subtle or otherwise.
states run federal elections though, plus there are probably local issues on the ballot too. why are police even there if it's outside their jurisdiction? and how do you expect federal entities to enforce laws at every single poll in the country? it makes no sense.
People keep forgetting rage against the machine lyrics. They never stopped being relevant.
Who do you think is under the sheets
Some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses
FTFY
There is nothing weirs about it - those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
There are police under the sheets?