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A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve (capitalbnews.org)

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[–] ezmack@lemmy.ml 97 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Small towns are rough man. People will run as both the dem and republican candidate in my town and you can't vote in town meetings if you aren't a property owner

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Where is this? Outside of HOA nonsense, I thought property ownership died as a requirement in the 1800's.

I guess the slightly less doxx-y question is: what states still allow that crap?

[–] ezmack@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

New England

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was so sure your town was doing something unconstitutional because it sounded so blatantly wrong. Found the answer and man, your state needs to sort that shit out.

Fwiw, a few MA towns are going the other way: pushing the state to allow noncitizens to vote in TM.

[–] ezmack@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah town was founded around the Civil War and I suspect that has something to do with the way it is now. Had a brief klan revival in the 80s and 90s, and, given the size, hitting way above our weight for number of people arrested for january 6

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