U.S : The racist history of Georgia’s majority voting law.

 

 

 

Friend, Georgia’s election runoff system was invented to weaken the voting power of Black voters.

Sign the petition: Georgia’s runoff elections have racist roots. Eliminate them! 

 

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In 1963, after having lost a re-election race, Georgia State Rep. Denmark Groover introduced Georgia's majority voting law that requires a candidate to receive 50% or more of the vote to win their race. Years later, Groover himself admitted “I was a segregationist. I was a county unit man. But if you want to establish if I was racially prejudiced, I was. If you want to establish that some of my political activity was racially motivated, it was.”

Now, more than 60 years later that system is still in place, and the most recent runoff in December between Rep. Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker is the 12th time Georgia has gone into a runoff for a statewide race. 

Sign the petition: Georgia’s runoff elections have racist roots. Eliminate them! 

 

 

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Digital anchor Nicole Ellis of PBS writes, “It weakened the impact of the Black electorate — which had grown in the wake of civil rights activism in the late 1950s and early 1960s — by requiring their favored candidate to win a majority of votes. This task was difficult to achieve in a multicandidate contest in which Black residents held a minority of the votes, both in county and statewide elections.”

Georgia's majority voting law continues to disenfranchise Black voters today, and makes it harder for people with limited resources to get to the polls to have their votes counted. The law also leads to unprecedented stress on election workers, cuts into the holiday season, leads to voter fatigue and lower turnout, and delays the certification of election results.

Georgia officials must put an end to this outdated and racist process that runs through party resources and taxpayer dollars, and causes the rest of the country to wait in anticipation for the fate of races with large-scale federal implications. 

 

Sign the petition: Georgia’s runoff elections have racist roots. Eliminate them!

 

 

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Keep fighting,

 

 

 

 

 

Jayleen Alvarado, Daily Kos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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