Your state attorney has this to say about the upcoming election:
Whether you vote by mail or in person, early or on election day, every registered voter has the right to have their vote counted accurately. In the State of Florida, we have a Voter’s Bill of Rights which is included on our “Protect Your Voice and Your Vote” flyers. My Community Outreach Division team members distribute these flyers and conduct presentations throughout the County, making sure that voters are familiar with their rights.
In order to ensure that your voting experience remains free of any illegal activity or impropriety, my Voter Protection Hotline at 305-547-3300 is fully activated to receive reports of any irregularities or suspected irregularities at the early voting sites, with mail-in ballots, or on election day. My team of investigators will be available during scheduled voting hours throughout the early voting period and on election day to respond to any complaints of possible voting irregularities.
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OMG. Fake Alex Michaels LOSES the 2022 Survivor Pool to HANZY & COCO!!!! What say you Rump?
Rumpole, speaking of voting, Uncle Milty had this very strong Constitutional Calendar post today:
Readers of Earl Warren’s memoirs are sometimes surprised to learn that the great Chief Justice did not consider Brown v. Topeka Board of Education the most important opinion of his tenure. Significant as Brown was, Warren considered Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964) and Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962) – commonly referred to as the “one man, one vote” cases – as the most important of all. His reasoning was simple: the right to vote is the gateway to all other legal rights.
Which brings us to Ocoee, Florida, on election day, November 2, 1920.
If you don’t live in Florida, and even if you do, you may never have heard of Ocoee. It’s a small town in Orange County, quite close to Disney World.
African-Americans had been, for all intents and purposes, disenfranchised in Florida since at least the outset of the 20th century. In 1920, however, the Black community made concerted and organized efforts to get Blacks to register and vote. On election day, Mose Norman and Julius Perry were among the leaders of those presenting themselves at the polls and demanding to exercise their franchise.
What followed is remembered to history – if it is remembered at all – as “the Ocoee Massacre.” Perhaps 30 or 35 Blacks were murdered by a mob, and all the Black homes, as well as churches and schoolhouses, were burned to the ground. Julius Perry’s body was taken to Orlando, the nearest big city, hanged from a telephone pole, and left to rot as an example to others. Mose Norman was never seen or heard from again.
The surviving members of the Black community fled. No Black person lived in Ocoee until 1981.
No one was ever sued or prosecuted for the Ocoee Massacre. That would have required access to the court system, to the legal system, to the organs of government. But without the right to vote, that access is easily denied. The right to vote is – as Earl Warren realized – the gateway to all other legal rights.
Cap Out …..
Shameful piece of history, but relevant and good information.
Captain, I believe the Governor would prefer if you did not highlight embarrassing Florida facts like slavery, pandemic deaths, um... his administration.
" The right to vote is – as Earl Warren realized – the gateway to all other legal rights." Indeed. And it may be a good time to recall that women only got the right to vote in the entire US in 1920.
That story is also a reminder that Earl Warren, as Attorney General of California, was fully involved in, and in favor of, the movement of Japanese residents (citizens and non-citizens alike) to camps as potential WWII "threats."
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