At 7pm, the polls close. Every precinct in Georgia is required to post the machine tabulation tape before heading to the collection point to turn in the memory cards and ballots. GO to your precinct, take pictures and hold on to it. These tapes can tell a story.
So, in Atlanta? A new training facility BUILDING is going to prevent THIS from happening? I think the money being spent is going in the wrong areas.
Hell, how DOES one 'train' someone NOT to do this?
#StopCopCity
40 years ago today, I married a man who has been there for the best and worst moments of my life... and he has never left my side.
Now we look at the five children and nine grands (
#10
coming in December!) and we are simply amazed and awed at what our love has built.
I've been told by "real" Democrats I am not one of them and I'm good with that, as I couldn't rock with that crowd anyway.
For me, THIS woman is what a real Democrat should sound and look like.
If I were in DC, I would be at the
#TrumpParade
reading this LOUDLY.
#4thofjuly2019
"Your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless, your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence, your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery."
My youngest daughter was hired by Chipotle in East Point last year; the starting pay was decent and she was promised a promotion to a managerial position in three months, as she was experienced and excited about having opportunity.
They cut her hours a month later.
It's just not Atlanta, y'all.
And this point is KEY: Folks are TIRED of having to beg those we are asked to elect and represent us to do the right thing and ignore us after we take the time to redress our government.
Tell me about it.
@BrianKempGA
tried to steal my vote in 2017 along with 159K, why wouldn't he go the same with money?
Ask him how much he's spent on purging voters in 8 yrs. and why he never invested in new voting machines.
#TMYK
#gapol
For all those Black politicians and advocates who took Bloomberg's cash and don't find him a problem because you know where the money came from?
Go explain to these Black people just how 'misguided' they are. You gotta earn that money. Go to work.
Just got call from my husband's job. He got to work this morningand had chills and fever. Rushed to Emory Midtown; just talked to him by phone and he has a fever of 104°.
Not sure if it's COVID-19 or another infection, but worried as hell.
@michaelharriot
Killer Mike didn't say one word to Kemp about trying to illegally purge Black Georgia voters and Kemp has yet to apologize for doing so.
Not only is the
#USPostalService
a lifeline for millions of Americans? It also employs millions of Black/POC, disabled and veteran workers. Allowing its demise would throw this economy into further decline.
And a lot of them vote, too.
#usps_is_essential
@XSkeletonCandy
I get that; this is not your fault nor is it about you so much as it is about protecting YOUR health along with rest of school community. When you have a school full of students during the day and clearly you are already overwhelmed?
How are you going to meet these standards?
When public officials become unresponsive to its citizens? Citizens will stop listening to public officials and become ungovernable.
For young voters being told to vote because it's their voice and to hold public officials accountable? Harder to make that argument now.
After more than 14 hours of public comment overwhelmingly against Atlanta’s proposed public safety center, the City Council voted 11-4 to approve a funding package for the complex as opponents chanted: “The world is watching.”
#gapol
#atlpol
My
@BernieSanders
canvassing partner in Orangeburg, SC - the one, the ONLY
@LephtUvSinner
.
Yeah, he's definitely a Bernie Bro... with another mother! This man is a beast in
#GOTV
and an asset to any campaign. Pleasure being his wing person. ✊🏾
As long as there is a bogeyman in the room to be that threat that allows Democrats to scare voters to the polls without any policies, accountabilty or demands made or won by the Black community? They don't have to change a thing and most likely won't.
If the voting machines we have are so great and using the same type of technology as the next gen GA plans to purchase as part of
#HB316
? Then show us the audit trail for the missing Black votes in Black precincts.
Shout out to
@Greg_Palast
and
@democracynow
for this piece on
@BrianKempGA
and voter suppression in Georgia. I had an absolutely wonderful day with him showing him around my community and was honored to help locate purged voters.
#gapol
They say my blood pressure is high. Waiting for battery of tests and doctor.
I just want something to take headache away so I can sleep.
And bless health care workers. All of 'em. They are angels disguised as humans on this planet. ❤
Why I can do nothing regarding
#TakeAKnee
until the real power pivot decides on it's own fate - the players.
"Donald Trump is counting on you doing nothing.
The league owners and executives are counting on you doing nothing."
Guess who is headed to
#Atlanta
for a rally at Morehouse College?
@BernieSanders
, y'all! RSVP NOW and join the rally in the historic West End community in the center of Black Atlanta!
This content needs a strong trigger warning for police violence.
This young man was stopped by a plainclothes police officer this evening in Canarsie, Brooklyn, apparently for being in a park shortly after the 9PM closing time.
Georgia makes Black votes magically disappear. We have over 129K missing from Black precincts who voted in-person in 2018 that have NEVER been found.
We're THAT good at voter suppression here.
People needing to eat cereal for dinner isn't a lifestyle choice, but is a necessity and only viable option for some families.
Amd leave it to Kellogg's to normalize this to increase their profits. That's capitalism for 'ya.
The CEO of Kellogg is happy to say that more people are eating cereal for dinner.
In fact, the company is leaning into it and intentionally advertising about cereal as a dinner meal for cash-strapped families.
The power to stop
#CopCity
lies in the hands of the Atlanta City Council.
Call your district rep, the council president and ALL three at-large members.
This is big news: the public price tag for Cop City has gone up, meaning that a vote from City Council will likely be required to keep the project going. This is a huge time to contact reps and tell them to STOP COP CITY
I mean, the state of GA is mandating agencies to cut their budgets to show fiscal restraint, but then goes and blows a wad of cash on new electronic voting machines that are less secure than
#HandMarkedPaperBallots
.
What fiscal principle or policy is THAT?
According to
@cbelections
&
@pittcyber
using all BMDs cost 2x what
#HMPB
cost which means that there is less money for pollworker training, voter education, staffing, accessibility enhancements. Using all BMDs is a waste of money.
@freedomworks
@mostrolenk
What if I were to tell you,
@MSNBC
, that it's not just the Russians using this method? American political operatives and consultants affiliated with DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS use troll factories, too. How do I know? I was offered a job with one here in GA.
If
@ReverendWarnock
loses by one vote? It might be me, as I once came to him for help and concerns about New Georgia Project when he was on the board and I worked there.
He said he'd get back to me and blew me off. So I should vote for him to do the same to me as my Senator?
@soledadobrien
This poor, middle-aged Black woman has more faith, trust and confidence in this rich white woman's words than yours.
I value honesty and integrity over pettiness.
We
@BernieSanders
supporters welcome your hatred, as we are powered by its neutralizer, love.
And thanks to all the haters who made this wonderful video possible. It couldn't have been done without you.
As one who was a victim of GA's mass purge in 2017, important to note that I still have no idea nor have ever been told just what list the SoS was using to determine my eligibility.
Check your voter registration in GA status regularly. No one is immune.
See, this is why folks don't trust Democrats, cautionary tale about those campaign pledges and the problem with holding candidates accountable after the vote and... why in the hell do we need big inaugural shindigs anyway? Where's the fiscal restraint and whose it for anyway?
Just like Trump and Republicans, Democrats too routinely say one thing and do another. Both Parties serve big corporations first and foremost. No wonder capitalists cheer “our 2-party system.”
If Georgia has such a secure, auditable voting system, why does the state fight so hard prevent showing us what it alleges the electronic machines can do and block any examination of them?
I mean, if it can do all they say it can, nothing asked for here should be a problem.
Read about our
@CoalitionGoodGv
upcoming oral argument Tuesday in front of GA Supreme Ct. in article by
@rrobinmcdonald
. We are challenging the Lt. Gov race and the 127,000+ missing votes.
The debate over whether to install high-speed light rail along Atlanta’s beloved Beltline is expected to be one of the city’s biggest battles as BeltLine and MARTA officials say they aren’t backing down from the idea.
I'm going to use this analogy:
Imagine you had cancer and recovered from it but now you're mad someone else doesn't because you wish to see them struggle and suffer as you did... as solidarity.
This is what you people want? This is how you sound saying this.
It would mean that while I made many sacrifices to pay off $40k of my own debt, I’m now on the hook to pay off the debt of people unwilling to do the same.
Okay, Mayor
@PeteButtigieg
. At least this Black woman in SW Atlanta sees you and is willing tp listen to more of your ideas along these lines.
Lwt's just say I have a particular interest on voting rights and election integrity.
I don't know who is doing the coordinated campaign Central messaging thing in Georgia around these Senate races, but whomever it is? Definitely failing; those are ECONOMIC issues that need the dots connected for voters over being scared of "the words."
@dovesandletters
Yes, but It's also the flip side we should talk about. Done voter reg for yrs, can't tell you X's ppl brought notices; asked what to do.
I just gotta say this, y'all. I think Erica would laugh a lot of those wishing thoughts and prayers on her behalf today who wouldn't touch her with a 10-foot pole any other time. When they reminisce over you, my God...
At anti-D.C. statehood press conference, Senator Steve Daines (R-Mt.) urges lawmakers to "go out to where the real people are at across the country and ask them where they think."
@Kat_Cammack
Or you could go next door, invite her to sit down to a dinner and talk about your differences and opinions as congressional colleagues SHOULD.
(1/3) We are releasing a photo of the handgun that was in Manuel Esteban Paez Teran’s possession when a Georgia State Patrol trooper was shot on January 18 at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
@DominiqueJL15
Withers was a... complicated man. I do not wish to speak I'll of the dead or take away for his substantial musical talent or genius, but he did have a dark side we saw.
Him and Denise Nichols.
No matter how the vote goes down today to
#StopCopCity
? We're ready to go hard in the paint.
Every action has an equal and opposite and reaction. That's science.
Look, I got questions for the Black people on his team. They're just as quiet on his problematic past. I'm waiting to hear THEM tell the Black community about how we should just move past Anita Hill, the crime bill, welfare reform, busing, etc
THAT should be interesting.
The state of Georgia was warned of this BEFORE purchasing the machines and they did it anyway.
With taxpayer money at that and then Gov. Kemp wanted to cut the state budget over fiscal concerns.
Just what conservative principle is THAT?
We don't elect people to office simply to be told 'nothing can be done' or 'something is better than nothing.'
Go tell that to your boss and see how long you hold that job. Remember, voters ARE the employers in this equation.
In 2015, the military industrial complex consumed 54% of discretionary spending, more than all other categories such as education, health, etc. COMBINED.
Remember this the next time you hear from ANYONE who says: "How are you going to PAY for ____?"
On behalf of the grassroots of Atlanta and those who are just plain savage, we say fuck this. A permit to FEED people when the city can't, won't or doesn't? Nah.
So, the bus I was on riding to SC to canvass for
@BernieSanders
? In what can only be described as irony? One of the buses blew a tire... here in GA.
No worries, though. Staffers on it and another bus en route. Spirits are good, we know what we need to do! We're ready!