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The Benjamin Dixon Show

Episode 639 | Republican Donor Pushing to Shut Down Black Polling Locations in Georgia County

The Benjamin Dixon Show

The Benjamin Dixon Show

News, Politics

4.6861 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Republicans will use ANYTHING they can to maintain power. In the race for governor for the state of Georgia, a DONOR to the Republican candidate is pushing to shut down 7 of 9 polling locations in a predominantly black Georgia county.

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So a donor to the campaign for the Republican candidate for Governor in the state of Georgia was hired as a consultant

0:56.2

earlier this year to oversee the elections in Randolph County, Georgia.

1:06.6

Now, this consultant, who, again,

1:11.0

is a donor to the campaign of Brian Kemp who is a Republican candidate for

1:15.1

governor in the state of Georgia. This consultant has just recommended that

1:21.0

they close seven polling locations in Randolph County, which is predominantly black.

1:29.0

It's more than 60% black.

1:32.0

Over 30% of the people living in that county live in poverty.

1:37.0

And according to the ACLU, one of the polling places this official, Malone wants to close is 96.7% black.

1:50.0

So let me let me let me restate this again because a lot of people are talking about this story

1:58.0

but a lot of most people I've only seen one person report that the man doing this Mike Malone, who is a consultant

2:09.5

brought in this year to run the elections in Randolph County. this man, Mike Malone, is a donor to the Republican candidate for governor,

2:22.9

according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution,

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