NAACP accuses Mississippi country clerk of failing to process thousands of voter registrations

[redqueen]

Source: Raw Story

Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson announced at a press conference Tuesday morning that an unknown number of voter registrations have gone missing in Hinds County, Mississippi, and urged voters to cast what is known as an affidavit ballot if they arrive at the polls and find that they are not listed. According to the Jackson Free Press, Johnson made the announcement at a press event promoting the NAACP’s Mississippi voter help line, a service designed to help voters fight irregularities and suspected wrongdoing at the polls.

Recently, the NAACP held a massive voter registration drive, which added some 10,000 new voters to Hinds County registers, but as of Friday, many of the names were not yet listed in the voter registration database.

Hinds County Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn told the Free Press, “We worked until 5 o’clock Saturday (Oct. 6),” the deadline for voter registrations in Jackson and Hinds County, and that voters whose registrations were not been processed on time do not have any recourse through her office.

The NAACP’s Johnson insisted that his group turned in the registration forms before Oct. 6 and that they should have been processed. The organization has received multiple calls, he said, from voters whose registrations had not been completed.

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Just one more sentence...

&quot Johnson) urged voters to file an affidavit ballot, which will be counted when their registration is verified."

[Actionman]

1. Ok so she admits she received them

“We worked until 5 o’clock Saturday (Oct. 6),” the deadline for voter registrations in Jackson and Hinds County, and that voters whose registrations were not been processed on time do not have any recourse through her office.

Ok so they have the registration in hand on time but because they wanted to leave they didn't process. This the kind of thing that will continue to happen if these people are not ARRESTED and successfully PROSECUTED!

[Judi Lynn]

2. Like an ugly unbelievably white wrinkled deer caught in the headlights,

(from the Raw Story article):

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Dunn has been in office as the county’s Circuit Clerk for 28 years and within the last four years has received three sanctions from the Mississippi Supreme Court. In 2008, she was cited and fined for “failure to comply with the requirements of the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.” The Supreme Court fined her office $5,000 in 2010 for failure to send judge’s orders to attorneys, sometimes allowing appeals and other deadlines to expire. And in March of this year, Dunn was ordered by the state’s highest court to personally pay a $9,500 fine and fire a longtime staffer for the office’s failure to file a law firm’s appeal with a county judge within its 30-day deadline.

In spite of the multiple lapses, Dunn cites her “personal touch” as the reason she continues to be elected to the position of County Circuit Clerk.

[Panasonic]

4. O'Rly?!

[Judi Lynn]

11. 3 white predators. Creepy! n/t

[SemperEadem]

5. 3 sanctions within 4 years sounds like willful negligence to me

depraved indifference to established law also comes to mind.

Or maybe she keeps getting elected because she uses her "personal touch" to make votes against her disappear. She reeks of someone who feels they are entitled to keep their elected position as if it's her personal duchy.

[Judi Lynn]

12. That's a peculiar delusion among Republicans, isn't it? It's their "mandate". n/t

[burnsei sensei]

14. Damn your "personal touch"

straight to hell.

[SamKnause]

3. CHEATERS

I am so sick and tired of these cheaters.

Create jobs; Fill the private prisons with these traitors !!!!!

[LuvNewcastle]

6. There were a few at my precinct who had to do affidavits.

One of the guys said that he just got called for jury duty last week and received a check. All of the people doing affidavits were black and most of the people who go to my precinct are black, so that makes me suspicious.

[redqueen]

8. SSDD

Same stuff, different decade.

[inamatteroftime]

7. She's sure got the GOPer look down...

wow, she thinks she's untouchable. Hope this blows up really big and she has to pay lots of $$$ out of her pocket, since that seems to be the consequence of malfeasance in Miss.

[Jack Sprat]

9. Criminal charges need to filed against her

or anyone else depriving another citizen of their right to vote. These fines don't seem to faze them. They go right back and do it again and again.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Someone needs to make an honest woman of her, in court. n/t

[csziggy]

13. Permanently remove this voter fraud's right to vote

And her right to hold any public office above that of a prisoner picking up trash along the roadside!

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. K&R (nt)

[suffragette]

16. Makes one wonder how many individually turned in registrations weren't processed

in addition to the ones noted in the article, since the reason we're aware of these is that the NAACP can and does follow through while individuals might just give up.
Glad the NAACP is making this public and is fighting for the rights of people to register and vote.