This is the Tom Hartman program.

In Georgia, we have now seen the enemy and not to totally revisit POGO you know the enemy is us but the enemy

is clearly the Republican Party yesterday we saw the Republican Party's

voter suppression strategy on full display as black areas in Georgia and pretty much

exclusively African-American neighborhoods in Georgia were absolutely

deprived of enough voting machines, enough polling places, that their citizens

could vote in a reasonable period of time.

And now what I'm hearing as I'm watching the news, I heard this this morning on one of the networks I read it in a in a story

in the in the Washington Post you've got the Republican officials in Georgia saying oh well that

was the fault of the local election people.

They just didn't know how to run the machine, which frankly, I think is GOP slash racist code for those black people in those

largely black precincts who are volunteering to help out are they're just not

smart enough to run the machines or words to that effect. I mean that that seems to me like the subtext that's that's the only excuse they're making

This Washington Post piece is titled in Georgia primary day snarled by long lines problems with voting machines a

potential preview of November by Amy Gardner. It starts out problems were

concentrated in Atlanta and surrounding counties. Now keep in mind, this is the number one strategy the Republican Party uses for

voter suppression.

Force people to stand in line for a long time.

Works even better during a pandemic. But is there any mention

of that in this article? Okay back to the article. Problems were

concentrated in Atlanta and surrounding counties where voters describe

standing in line for hours of election

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