Cynthia McKinney defeated in primary runoff

August 10th, 2006 at 09:09 Björn Hallberg

About the only U.S. politician genuinely critical of the system gets, predictably, ousted from her bid for reelection using a combination of foul play, crossover voting and demographic changes. Or what Americans lovingly like to call democracy. The tireless hate and disinformation campaigns directed at McKinney have paid off it seems.

Over the past few years, increasing numbers of affluent blacks have moved into southern DeKalb County, the base of Ms. McKinney’s district, and many were not impressed by her confrontational and occasionally erratic style.

But Ms. McKinney and her supporters contend that Republicans mounted a campaign to vote her out of office, as they did four years ago when crossover voting helped elect her Democratic challenger, Denise Majette.

Several Republican strategists acknowledged that widespread crossover voting was organized and encouraged on Tuesday.

Under Georgia’s system, voters may choose either a Republican or a Democratic ballot in the primary election. If there is a runoff, primary voters must stick with the party they originally selected, but voters who did not vote in the primary are free to vote for either party.

Some voting rights advocates said that while crossover voting might be legal, it violated the spirit of the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution because it effectively negated the right of a group — in Ms. McKinney’s case, black voters — to nominate the candidate of their choice.

Clever indeed. But one also has to hand it to African Americans for accepting the hegemony of the majority oppressors and doing their work for them, sending, as Malcolm X would surely have observed had he been alive today, Uncle Tom leaders to Washington rather than those that would stand for their true interests. This combined with the, unfortunately, legal loop holes in the voting process in some states.

Previously: McKinney votes stolen by Diebold; the electronic vote manipulation network and you

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