Current Events > GOP Removes Sole Polling Place From Famous Hispanic Majority City in Kansas.

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Tmaster148
10/20/18 5:14:01 PM
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The Kansas Republican Party is the Sunflower State affiliate of the national Republican organization and their acolytes have recently taken that idioms advice to heart by removing the only polling location from the citys civic center and placing it well outside of towna mile away from the nearest bus stop.

According to The Wichita Eagle, Dodge City is now at least 60 percent Hispanicand since Hispanic voters overwhelmingly choose Democrats over Republicans, the paper notes, the removal of the citys lone polling station could be a factor in Kansas tight governors race featuring a champion of immigration restrictions, Republican [Secretary of State] Kris Kobach [and] Democratic state Senator Laura Kelly.

Local Democrats and voting rights advocates say thats no could be or coincidence at all.

Johnny Dunlap is the chairman of the Ford County Democratic Party. Dodge City is the Ford County seat. In comments to the Eagle, Dunlap blasted the changewhich occurred just weeks agofor its likely impact on turnout during this years highly contested midterm elections. He said:
It is shocking that we only have one polling place, but that is only kind of scratching the surface of the problem. On top of that, not only is it irrational and ridiculous that we have only one polling place, but Dodge City is one of the few minority-majority cities in the state.


Dodge City has struggled with Hispanic voter turnout in the past. A database consulted by the Eagle showed that Hispanic voters only registered 17 percent turnout during the last midterm elections in 2014 compared to 61 percent turnout for white voters during that same year.

And apathy alone might not account for those low participation rates. The Eagle also notes that Dodge Citys former polling location wasnt exactly centralized. Rather, that singular polling site was located just blocks away from the local country club in the wealthy, white part of town.

Dodge City has a population of roughly 27,000 residentsbuoyed by a semi-recent influx of Hispanic and Latin immigrants chasing economic opportunity provided by the time-honored tradition of American cattle. But instead of the Great Western Cattle Trail, this time around, its the wholesale industrial processes of slaughterhouses and beef packing plants.

The citys voter rolls contain in excess of 13,000 eligible individuals. The average Kansas polling site serves around 1,200 voters during any given election. The ACLU of Kansas notes that this disparity makes Dodge Citys sole location, one of the most burdened polling places in all of Kansas.

ACLU of Kansas Executive Director Micah Kubic did not mince words about what this meant in real terms.

Thousands of Hispanic voters on the south side of town now have a harder time voting, Kubic said.

Dunlap also made his concerns plain.

That is terrible, he said. What that has contributed to is a way below average Hispanic turnout in voting in Dodge City.

Republican Party officials insist their hands are tied.

Kansas Elections Director Bryan Caskey, who was appointed by and works directly under Kobach, authority, said the county had to move the polling location due to construction in the area.

Dunlap, however, noted that construction on the huge building had barely begunand that most of said construction was an addition that had little impact on the space previously used to house voting machines.

In comments to Law&Crime, he said:
This isnt a new problem. I met with [Ford County Clerk Debbie Cox] previously and implored her to increase the polling locations. She flatly refused. This is purposeful. She said it wasnt in her budgetbut she makes her own budget. She gave me a list of excuses but none of them hold water.

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Tmaster148
10/20/18 5:15:39 PM
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wow you mean to tell me the gop is preventing blue voters from voting? gtfo of here i dont believe it for 1 second i sure dont


Well in this case they are trying to prevent Hispanics from voting. Could be racism or could be shutting down the opposition.
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frozenshock
10/20/18 5:16:49 PM
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With Kavanaugh and Gorsuch in the Supreme Court, it's useless to even try to fight this stuff.

Voter suppression is just something we're going to have to live with.
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Tmaster148
10/20/18 5:24:47 PM
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frozenshock posted...
With Kavanaugh and Gorsuch in the Supreme Court, it's useless to even try to fight this stuff.

Voter suppression is just something we're going to have to live with.


It's not really something we have to live with.

Either the country votes out the GOP or we wait for the inevitable violence to do that.
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UnholyMudcrab
10/20/18 5:27:05 PM
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The Republican Party does not deserve to continue to exist.
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ledbowman
10/20/18 5:27:42 PM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
The Republican Party does not deserve to continue to exist.

But they wear flag pins.
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Freddie_Mercury
10/20/18 5:28:16 PM
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b o t h s i d e s
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UnholyMudcrab
10/20/18 5:30:08 PM
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sktgamer_13dude
10/20/18 5:30:22 PM
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Hi_Rihanna posted...
Democrats: Voter suppression (allegedly) is bad

Also democrats: Vote democrat or youre a racist and/or dont have my respect as a human being

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NinjaWarrior455
10/20/18 5:30:30 PM
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Tmaster148 posted...
frozenshock posted...
With Kavanaugh and Gorsuch in the Supreme Court, it's useless to even try to fight this stuff.

Voter suppression is just something we're going to have to live with.


It's not really something we have to live with.

Either the country votes out the GOP or we wait for the inevitable violence to do that.

Hard to vote out the GOP when they're doing everything in their power to prevent people voting Democrat and rigging everything in their favor.
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Tmaster148
10/20/18 5:33:45 PM
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NinjaWarrior455 posted...
Tmaster148 posted...
frozenshock posted...
With Kavanaugh and Gorsuch in the Supreme Court, it's useless to even try to fight this stuff.

Voter suppression is just something we're going to have to live with.


It's not really something we have to live with.

Either the country votes out the GOP or we wait for the inevitable violence to do that.

Hard to vote out the GOP when they're doing everything in their power to prevent people voting Democrat and rigging everything in their favor.


I recognize it's not an easy task. But if they aren't removed than violence will be inevitable. It's not like the GOP is even doing anything to help the people of this country.
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FarFromFields
10/20/18 5:35:35 PM
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Hi_Rihanna posted...
Democrats: Voter suppression (allegedly) is bad

Also democrats: Vote democrat or youre a racist and/or dont have my respect as a human being

That's not equivalent at all. One side is actively preventing people from exercising their right to vote. The other side is just stating an opinion.
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JE19426
10/20/18 5:35:54 PM
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UnholyMudcrab
10/20/18 5:36:15 PM
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FarFromFields
10/20/18 5:41:25 PM
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Hi_Rihanna posted...
FarFromFields posted...
Hi_Rihanna posted...
Democrats: Voter suppression (allegedly) is bad

Also democrats: Vote democrat or youre a racist and/or dont have my respect as a human being

That's not equivalent at all. One side is actively preventing people from exercising their right to vote. The other side is just stating an opinion.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRp1CK_X_Yw" data-time="


Seeing this across TVs across America is not just stating an opinion.

You clearly don't even know what an opinion is. That video is literally a bunch of people stating their opinions. Which they have every right to do.
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Tmaster148
10/20/18 5:42:24 PM
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FarFromFields posted...
Hi_Rihanna posted...
FarFromFields posted...
Hi_Rihanna posted...
Democrats: Voter suppression (allegedly) is bad

Also democrats: Vote democrat or youre a racist and/or dont have my respect as a human being

That's not equivalent at all. One side is actively preventing people from exercising their right to vote. The other side is just stating an opinion.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRp1CK_X_Yw" data-time="


Seeing this across TVs across America is not just stating an opinion.

You clearly don't even know what an opinion is. That video is literally a bunch of people stating their opinions. Which they have every right to do.


Dude just wants to defend voter suppression. No reason to engage him.
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FarFromFields
10/20/18 5:45:57 PM
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Hi_Rihanna posted...
Tmaster148 posted...
FarFromFields posted...
Hi_Rihanna posted...
FarFromFields posted...
Hi_Rihanna posted...
Democrats: Voter suppression (allegedly) is bad

Also democrats: Vote democrat or youre a racist and/or dont have my respect as a human being

That's not equivalent at all. One side is actively preventing people from exercising their right to vote. The other side is just stating an opinion.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRp1CK_X_Yw" data-time="


Seeing this across TVs across America is not just stating an opinion.

You clearly don't even know what an opinion is. That video is literally a bunch of people stating their opinions. Which they have every right to do.


Dude just wants to defend voter suppression. No reason to engage him.


nah voter suppression is bad. it sucks that theyre preventing these people from voting republican like they did last time

The majority voted democrat though, that's already been established within this topic. You didn't even have to look very far.
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UnholyMudcrab
10/20/18 5:46:25 PM
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TrevorBlack79
10/20/18 5:48:10 PM
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Who's alt is that?
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UnfairRepresent
10/20/18 5:49:07 PM
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ITT: People feed the sigless user
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monkmith
10/20/18 5:49:10 PM
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TrevorBlack79 posted...
Who's alt is that?

no clue, obviously dug out an old one though...
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JE19426
10/20/18 5:51:53 PM
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Hi_Rihanna posted...
a significant amount of hispanics voted in favor of trump than they did obama


A dude running in an election, got more votes than a dude legally barred from running in the election? Shocking!
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FarFromFields
10/20/18 5:58:34 PM
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Yeah this person isn't even trying to make sense anymore. Ran out of steam I guess.
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JE19426
10/20/18 6:02:10 PM
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Hi_Rihanna posted...
im not the one who thinks obama was legally barred from running for president


He totally was. Check out the Twenty-second Amendment, to the United States Constitution.
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sktgamer_13dude
10/20/18 6:02:43 PM
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FarFromFields posted...
Yeah this person isn't even trying to make sense anymore. Ran out of steam I guess.

They werent trying to make sense anyway. Its probably someone like madfoot.
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TheCyborgNinja
10/20/18 6:03:33 PM
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You can't win when the other side is willing to do things you are not. Dirty tricks call for retaliation not acceptance. #punchapolitician
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HylianFox
10/20/18 6:04:23 PM
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Kansas gonna Kan
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frozenshock
10/20/18 6:27:06 PM
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Hi_Rihanna posted...

democrats: republicans are fascists

also democrats: we will resort to violence if you get elected again


It worked for Lenin.
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Axiom
10/20/18 6:29:56 PM
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Republicans are cartoon villains these days
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TrevorBlack79
10/20/18 6:43:12 PM
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I mean, the US was formed explicitly out of violence in response to "not getting what we wanted." Don't make peaceful revolution impossible if you don't want to see violent revolution.
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Sir Will
10/20/18 6:46:51 PM
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A city of over 27k people only had 1 polling place? And now not even in the city itself? That is fucked up. JFC the US is a shithole! This is disgusting! You dare speak of other countries when you have such blatant corruption of your own?

*scans rest of topic*

Huh, new conservatroll to mark. *tags*
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