By Ras J. Baraka This month’s election in Newark was tainted by a game of three-card monte by the Essex County Board of Elections, which shuffled polling places just days before the election, leaving many of my city’s residents to guess where to vote. In a nation today, where voting rights are threatened by certain state legislatures, it is incomprehensible that a board of elections would inflict such confusion on our city and force low voter turnout. To be blunt, the people of this city were disenfranchised on Election Day. The people whose ancestors marched for the right to vote, who were sh…