The Delaware County Daily Times published my letter today (the one I also posted here); strangely enough, they also published a letter from a friend, Paul Kerrigan, who expressed some of the same objections to Mr. McOscar's conclusions, though from a different angle (and no, neither of us knew the other was going to write to the paper on the topic). Paul wrote, in part:
...in Nether Providence where I was an observer, the local Judge of Elections confirmed what appeared to be true, that two contiguous wards had about a 5 to 1 disparity in the number of voters being served. The one ward had no line to speak of, while the voters in the adjacent ward consistently had a wait of an hour or more. Interestingly, the under-served voting ward was the one that had the apartment complex, as opposed to the single home properties in the first. I’m not saying that there was malicious intent, but the nearly all white voters in one ward were impressive when compared with the diverse voters who made up the other.
These subtle discrepancies reinforce the historical racism of the red-lining and de facto segregation of the past.
Always good to know you are not alone in your thoughts.
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