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Seems like run of the mill super illegal voter intimidation - maybe aimed at discouraging black voters by invoking images of the klan?
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Weird part is they weren’t arrested… Like tf? There are police
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Report that shit to the Georgia Attorney General. That’s voter intimidation. law.georgia.gov/…/election-fraud-complaint-hotlin…
hperrin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why would they arrest their fellow officers?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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):
sos.ga.gov/form/stop-voter-fraud
law.georgia.gov/…/election-fraud-complaint-hotlin…
www.eac.gov/…/register-and-vote-in-your-state?fie…
In actuality, it might be best to start by just calling these folks (phone number from the page above).
404-656-2871
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People keep forgetting rage against the machine lyrics. They never stopped being relevant.
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Who do you think is under the sheets
ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They are police
FTFY
There is nothing weirs about it - those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
teft@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There are police under the sheets?
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Klan.
I don’t care the intent or the season or the laws or the lulz. You wear a white fucking sheet to a polling place in a southern state, it looks like the fucking Klan. Fuck them.
Asafum@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I’m thinking they might be ghosts! It’s close to Halloween and they sometimes creep out of the graveyards to illegally vote and steal our democracy!!!
Lol seriously though, if I had to guess it’s just people wearing ghost costumes for Halloween even though it’s slightly early.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
[deleted]Asafum@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Ohhhh that’s even darker than I dared to guess… Voter intimidation? They’re probably looking for “illegal voting” and know their actions are frowned upon by most so they dont want people to recognize them in town.
Kinda really stupid because you immediately draw attention to yourself dressed like that… But then again the type of person who falls for the Trump election lie doesn’t exactly have logic listed among their strengths…
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That’s almost certainly super illegal. Unless there’s a weird local exemption It’s illegal to misrepresent yourself as a government official (this usually comes up with law enforcement but it covers all “regular” public employees - i.e. not private contractors hired by the government).
Please report this and include as many photos or other physical proof you may have as I really suspect it’s an attempt at voter intimidation.
wjrii@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
immediately trespassed and removed
So I take it to mean the poll workers or someone else actually asked them to leave? If so, that’s something. This is absolutely shitty, politicking at the polling place at best, and I agree with the others: you show up to a political event in the south wearing a white sheet, then pointy hood or not, we all know what you’re evoking.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 3 weeks ago
Maybe a YouTube prankster?
It’s close to Halloween, dressing up in white hoods is similar to the KKK attire, it’s a hot election season as usual…all sounds perfect for some idiot pranker to use for a new video.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
[deleted]xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sure but what happened in the civil rights era was that anyone who was black was assumed to be voting against the racist as fuck candidate… so if you showed up and were black you’d be run off, beaten, or lynched.
Let’s say you’re me - I’m a man with a beard who wears skirts - I show up to vote and take a wild guess who I’m voting for… it’s not the chucklefuck that wants to persecute all my trans friends. Based on appearance alone (including swag you might have pinned to your bag) you could try and make a guess about how someone may vote.
Asafum@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
That is true, I was just trying to think of some possible reason to want to be hidden. I didn’t even realize they were filming people until the OP replied to me. That made it way worse :/
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That first paragraph might be you using absurdist humor. Or it might be a legitimate quote from trump during a televised debate I missed.
I CAN’T TELL ANYMORE!!! EITHER ONE IS JUST AS LIKELY!!!
“The democrats are using the dead to illegally vote in our elections, it’s true. It’s halloween season, the ghosts like to come into the city, and vote. They’re not sending their best. Their sheets are stained, folks. Dirty laundry. They even sent the ghost of an Ohio pet cat that they ate. I saw it, very sad. Said meow. We tried to get the Scooby gang to help, but the Scooby gang has gone woke. Everybody is gone woke. They’re stealing the country…”
What even IS this decade??? Back in 2016 I used to joke that maybe the world really did officially end and this was all just reality starting to distort and fall apart.
Now I’m not even joking. What evidence do we have that this is real life???
Asafum@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
What evidence do we have that this is real life???
Donald Trump could very well win. That’s proof this is reality, because any movie maker worth their weight in salt would never have such a cartoonishly horrible person be a viable candidate in a realistic setting lol
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Cosplaying as discount klansmen by the looks of it.
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m guessing their excuse would be some BS statement about voter fraud and “dead people voting”. Obviously they don’t want to be identified.
neidu2@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Just guessing here, but either:
a) Cosplaying as KKK to intimidate black people
b) Cosplaying as ghosts to intimidateblackpeople
c) Dressing in white to not heat up as much in direct sunlightDelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The general election is two weeks away. What are people voting for in Georgia today?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some states have early in person voting instead of limiting it to a single day.
Rolando@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This seems like a violation of Georgia’s laws against wearing masks in public. If they were trying to speak with or otherwise interfere with voters I encourage you to report it: law.georgia.gov/…/election-fraud-complaint-hotlin…