Report: Houston Poll Worker Spews Blackface Insult at Voter
Source: Daily Beast
A white election official made racist remarks to an African-American voter at a polling place Tuesday, The Houston Chronicle reports. Rolanda Anthony said she tried to vote at Iglesia Bautista Libre in north Houston when a poll worker said there was an issue with her address, and she would need to fill out a form before she could vote. Assistant election judge Juanita Barnes reportedly ran over to Anthony and said it was “illegal” for her to try to change her address on election day. The pair then began to argue. “If I were to wear my blackface makeup, maybe you would understand what I’m telling you,” Barnes said, according to Anthony. Anthony wrote on Facebook that she then tried to walk away from Barnes. “After her atrocious statement I walked away, she was relentless she followed me throughout the voting location and got in my face not one but two times finally I had enough and said I’m calling the police,” she wrote. “She had the audacity to say I’m white they’ll arrest you and charge you with a crime not me, haven’t you seen the news.”
Presiding election judge Edith Randle reportedly separated Barnes and Anthony. The Chronicle also reports a poll worker named Pristina Stucky quit in protest over Barnes’ comments. Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Thomas Gilliland told local news station KRTK a “poll worker and a voter were involved in an altercation that was verbal at first, then some sort of physical altercation occurred.” The sheriff’s office also told the station that a “citation for assault by contact” was issued to Barnes for “bumping into a female voter during an argument.”
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Note: This story is also covered in depth by the Houston Chronicle, but behind a paywall, so I went with Daily Beast.
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was attempting to vote while black. 
Orange blouse on the racist beast.
Poll worker accused of hurling 'blackface' slur during altercation with voter
By Aaron Barker - Senior Web Editor, Brittany Jeffers - Reporter
Posted: 3:42 PM, November 06, 2018
Updated: 4:44 PM, November 06, 2018
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https://www.click2houston.com/news/poll-worker-accused-of-hurling-blackface-slur-during-altercation-with-voter
From the Houston Chronicle:
Anthony later informed the election judge she was going to call the police to report the incident because, "This is wrong."
That's when Barnes walked up to her and shoulder bumped her and said, "I'm white. Have you seen the news?"
"If you call the police, they're going to take you to jail and do something to you, because I'm white," Barnes told her in front of several witnesses.
Barnes told Anthony she was loitering and she was going to call the police on Anthony for failing to leave.
"The loiterer is back. The loiterer is back," she yelled.
Randle told Anthony she had already reported her coworker many times to the police, that the racist comments had been coming from Barnes since a training at the church Monday night, and the team of African American poll workers knew Barnes was racist and were trying to get her removed from the polling site.
Another poll worker, Prestina Stuckey, the daughter of Randle, the election judge, left as a result of Barnes' comments and attitude. Stuckey said she couldn't take the abuse Barnes was dishing out to her mother and Anthony and others including a phone call the alternate judge made in which she said , "I'm here with all these black people."
"She had just been saying little stuff all day," Stuckey said. "She was nitpicking all day."
Barnes was ultimately escorted out of the building around noon and relieved of her duties after sheriff's deputies and two lawyers and an investigator from the county attorney's office arrived to take reports.
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https://www.chron.com/news/politics/election/article/Poll-worker-directs-racist-language-at-a-north-13367024.php#photo-16457906
