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October 18, 2018

Georgia Bus Carrying Senior Black Voters Stopped on Way to Polls
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And in Georgia, a bus carrying African American senior citizens to a
polling place in Jefferson County was stopped Monday and all passengers
told to get off, after a county clerk raised concerns about the bus and
the organizers' political motivations. The bus trip was organized by the
nonpartisan group Black Voters Matter. The senior citizens were on their
way to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in Georgia.
This is co-founder Cliff Albright in a video released by Black Voters
Matter.

Cliff Albright: "Someone called the commission-the county commission-to
complain because they saw all these black folks get on this big black
bus. It's the blackest bus in America. Somebody drove past, saw that,
got nervous, got mad, called the county commission's office, which then
called the senator, and the bottom line was that all the folks who just
got on the bus-and the bus was full, this is a 50-passenger bus full of
folk-had to come off the bus."

This comes as Georgia's Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams
is calling on her Republican opponent Brian Kemp to step down as
secretary of state following allegations of widespread voter
suppression.


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