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"On February 23, 2021, Lucas, now 71, took to the Senate podium to oppose a new
voter-ID requirement for mail-in ballots introduced by Georgia Republicans. In
2005, Republicans had specifically exempted mail-in ballots from the state’s
voter-ID law, believing that more rural and elderly voters would be the ones
casting them. But now they were changing the rules after the Black share of
mail-in voters increased by 8 points in 2020 and the white share fell by 13
points. The measure was one of 50 anti-voting bills they’d introduced after the
state went blue in November and Donald Trump tried to overturn the election
results by falsely alleging a massive conspiracy to rig the vote.
Lucas, the in-house historian of Georgia’s Legislative Black Caucus, said the
bill “reminds me of the election of 1876.” He told the story of the disputed
presidential contest that put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House on the
condition that he would withdraw federal troops from the South, officially
ending Reconstruction. “When they pulled out the federal troops,” said Lucas,
“that’s when we had Jim Crow and folks got lynched.”"
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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