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Don't Blame GOP: White Democratic Voters Also Do Not Wait in Line

As if voting is something new. As if white supremacy is just a Republican thing. Right. Just like driving or walking (while Black or Brown), banking, getting an education and everything else of perceived value in the US seems to go down differently for non-whites. White people can barely wait in line at the CVS behind a Black person - they do not accept waiting in line to vote. White people in white Democratic precincts did not wait in line for 6 hours to vote for Obama. If so, where? If you waited in line you most likely are non-white. This is purposeful, strategic behavior by white people. The "we're all in this together" stuff is a game. The current operating system of White supremacy is the problem not technology or the GOP. 

A Hart Research study sponsored by the AFL-CIO found wait times to vote were significantly longer for Latinos and Blacks this year as 24% and 22% respectively waited in line longer than whites who voted. [actual study is HERE - just a graph, pictured above "Minorities, Democrats...". By the way, who is a minority when 90% of the world is non-white? 

A different survey by MIT in 2008 found that wait times for black voters were more than twice as long as those for whites. This was for both early and election day voting.

Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections [MORE

Year

Total V.A.P.

Total REG*

% REG of V.A.P *

Turnout

% TO of V.A.P.

1960

109,672,000

63,854,789 *

58.22%

68,838,204

62.77%

1964

114,090,000

73,715,818 *

64.61%

70,644,592

61.92%

1968

120,328,186

81,658,180 *

67.86%

73,211,875

60.84%

1972

140,776,000

97,283,541 *

69.11%

77,718,554

55.21%

1976

152,309,190

105,024,916 *

68.96%

81,555,789

53.55%

1980

164,597,000

113,036,958 *

68.67%

86,515,221

52.56%

1984

174,468,000

124,184,647 *

71.18%

92,652,680

53.11%

1988

182,630,000

126,381,202 *

69.20%

91,594,693

50.15%

1992

189,044,500

133,821,178 *

70.79%

104,405,155

55.23%

1996

196,511,000

146,211,960 *

74.40%

96,456,345

49.08%

2000

205,815,000

156,421,311 *

76.00%

105,586,274

51.30%

2004

221,256,931

174,800,000 *

79.00%

122,295,345

55.27%

2008

230,782,870

TBD

TBD

132,645,504

57.48%