Voter Suppression Alert: Blacks Are Afraid To Vote In St. Louis Because They Have Too Many Warrants

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Voter Suppression Alert: Blacks Are Afraid To Vote In St. Louis Because They Have Too Many Warrants

Brian Anderson
January 29, 2016

When it comes to voting, liberals would have us believe rules that apply to everyone are somehow racist against black people. They tell us voter ID laws are racist because blacks don’t have valid identification cards. They tell us not extending voting days are racist because blacks can’t get to the polls on Election Day. Now, in St. Louis we learn that voting itself is racist because blacks have too many warrants and are afraid to come to the polls.

This comes from The St. Louis American:

    Eighteen polling places in St. Louis County are co-located within a police station – effectively discouraging any resident with an outstanding warrant from walking in, giving his or her name and address, and voting, according to Better Together’s recent study.

“It’s important to realize that when we’re talking about warrants, we’re very often talking about someone who was simply unable to pay a traffic fine or a citation for a code violation and missed a court date,” said Dave Leipholtz, Better Together director of Community-Based Studies.

As it turns out, there are almost a half million outstanding warrants in St. Louis County, many belonging to black scofflaws.

“Warrants are so prolific that 27 municipalities in St. Louis County have accrued more outstanding warrants than they have residents. This disproportionately impacts municipalities with large populations of African-Americans and the poor,” said Leipholtz.

Because black people shouldn’t have to pay their fines or be held accountable at all for their actions, the NAACP is “deeply concerned” about this study.

“Having polling places inside of police departments is yet an additional obstacle in the way of African Americans seeking to exercise their constitutional right,” said St. Louis County NAACP president Esther Haywood.

But wait, it gets worse:

“A hurdle, such as the location of polling places in police departments, is far too similar to an unofficial Jim Crow Law,” she said.

There you have it. A polling place in a police station is that same thing as a poll tax or an intelligence test because blacks can’t be bothered to pay their tickets.

    The St. Louis County NAACP has written a letter to the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners requesting that all polling places in St. Louis County located at police departments be relocated immediately.

I’m guessing that the polling places are in police stations in some of these black communities because it’s the only safe place for people to vote without getting robbed or shot. If they moved the polling places to some unsavory part of town, the blacks would complain about all of the crime and still say it was racist. Maybe the problem isn’t where the polling place is located.

Also, let’s not forget that when you vote, you give your name to an election volunteer, not a cop. They check to see if you are registered and that you are voting in the correct precinct. Nobody is running your name against a list of outstanding warrants. In addition to this not being racist, it’s also based on ignorance of the process.

I find this to be even goofier than the voter ID complaints. The NAACP is trying to claim racism because black people generally do not pay their traffic tickets and often skip their court dates. In essence they are saying that expecting blacks to abide by the rules and laws of society is in fact race-based voter suppression.

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“Warrants are so prolific that 27 municipalities in St. Louis County have accrued more outstanding warrants than they have residents. This disproportionately impacts municipalities with large populations of African-Americans and the poor,” said Leipholtz.

What disproportionately - and negatively -  impacts [sic] such municipalities is the people who choose to break the law. Don't blame polling places, judges who issue warrants, the warrants themselves or the cops whose duty is to arrest lawbreakers. Stop breaking the law and stop destroying your own neighborhoods! (And I say that as a former resident of St. Louis County).

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There are large swaths of urban American in which the rule of law is effectively dead. In these same areas, traditional families are virtually nonexistent, faith has evaporated, and hope and opportunity are defined by easy access to lottery tickets and drugs and booze and welfare.

And yet, the NAACP ignores the unfolding social disaster that is engulfing black Americans, preferring to advance its own power and influence by amassing voting blocs of decimated human lives.

They ought to be organizing blacks to get them back into churches, creating neighborhood policing and support groups, clean-up brigades, job training and anti-drug campaigns, programs to encourage men to stay with their families....

Instead, they rake in and roll in taxpayer dollars, hurling false accusations at innocent others while their own people are busy destroying themselves from the inside out.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The NAACP is trying to claim racism because black people generally do not pay their traffic tickets and often skip their court dates. In essence they are saying that expecting blacks to abide by the rules and laws of society is in fact race-based voter suppression.

I am again without words.