An election commissioner in Mississippi claims her intent wasn’t to be racist despite posting on Facebook that she was concerned because “the Blacks” are having lots of voter registration events.
According to a report from the Clarion Ledger, Jones County election commissioner Gail Harrison Welch is now pushing back at people who have questioned the integrity of the election commission where she serves after she made the comments on social media last week.
“I have worked hard to make sure everybody is registered to vote — Black or white, everybody — that’s just how I am.”.
Why the concern at Black people registering to vote then?
And the implication that there is a distinction between “blacks” and “people in Mississippi?”.
“We’ve always in the past had whites really participating in registering to vote.
“I was just trying to strike a match under people and get them to vote — to get everybody to vote,” she said. »