Georgia Republicans are back to their old tricks, doing everything in their power to take control back from Black voters and Democrats—including a repeat of suppressive Jim Crow-era voting practices, such as replacing Black election board members with white men and killing early voting on Sundays.  Thanks to the passage of S.B. 202, which allows the Republican-controlled State Election Board to control county boards it judges to be failing, for months, Republicans have been stealthy in reorganizing boards to remove Black board members and replace them with white, conservative, Trump-supporting men.  A year ago, the five-member Spalding County election board comprised three Black women and a Black elections supervisor. Today, all three of the women have been replaced by white Republicans and a new board chairman, Ben Johnson—a former official of the county Republican party, who supports not only the one-term, twice-impeached President Trump but also the “big lie” and is (of course) an anti-vaxxer.  Read more