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Alton Russell, the Republican Party chairman of Columbus, Georgia, is acting as a self-appointed vigilante voter challenger.Georgia Republican Party activist Pam Reardon challenged the right of 32,132 of her neighbors to have their ballots counted during the 2020 election. Alton Russell, the Republican Party chairman of Columbus, Georgia, personally challenged roughly 4,000 voters’ right to a ballot in 2020.
Unfortunately, while the NAACP, Black Voters Matter, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and other frontline organizations have sued over these challenges, the U.S. Justice Department is, so far, nowhere to be seen., the documentary I produced, and he came to our interview actually dressed as Wild West vigilante Doc Holliday, sporting a pearl-handled six-shooter in a holster .Russell’s voter hit list was loaded with Black soldiers based at Fort Moore, Georgia.
The wound was deep. His father, Rev. Harold Turner, was a co-founder with Martin Luther King Jr. of the civil rights organization known as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference or SCLC. Now the vigilante virus has spread out of Georgia. Vigilante challenges — totaling in the hundreds of thousands — are exploding across the battleground states.
In 1946, the Klan succeeded in electing one of their own, Eugene Talmadge, as governor of Georgia. The FBI wrote up an indictment to charge Talmadge with criminal violation of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution for denying the right to vote based on a citizen’s skin color. But before he could be handcuffed, Talmadge drank himself to death.
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