“That wasn’t what he was hired to do."
This will be a quick diary but I just read this at Think Progress and it’s excellent news! This low-life cheating Republican (but I repeat myself) has been busted for ulterior motives — and his plan to disenfranchise minority voters has been thwarted!
Randolph County, Georgia, has fired Mike Malone, the election consultant behind a plan to close nearly all the polling precincts in the heavily minority county, County Attorney Tommy Coleman announced Thursday.
Malone was initially hired to fill the role of an elections supervisor until the county found someone to assume the position full time. Instead, he undertook efforts to close all but two of the county’s polling precincts — a proposal that fell outside his purview.
...Malone’s political motivations have also been called into question. In addition to the congressional midterms, Georgia voters will decide their next governor during November’s elections. Democrat Stacey Abrams is vying to become the first black female governor in U.S. history, and Randolph County — which is 61% black — went solidly for Democrat Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election. Suppressing turnout in the county would heavily benefit Abrams’ Republican opponent, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, to whom Malone has contributed. (emphasis added)
Read the full article here: Georgia county fires consultant who pushed plan to close polling places in heavily minority district