Jim Crow

Posted by Kerim
June 25, 2004

Read this article (emphasis added):

In the 2000 presidential election, 1.9 million Americans cast ballots that no one counted. “Spoiled votes” is the technical term. The pile of ballots left to rot has a distinctly dark hue: About 1 million of them — half of the rejected ballots — were cast by African Americans although black voters make up only 12 percent of the electorate.

This year, it could get worse.

Politics, Race

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