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With worn-out clichés about the dead voting, Chicago used to be the poster child for voter fraud. But if any state is a poster child for terrible election practices, it is surely Georgia. Bold claims demand bold evidence, and unfortunately there's plenty; on Monday, McClatchy reported a string of irregularities from the state's primary election in May, including one precinct with a 243-percent turnout.
McClatchy's data comes from a federal lawsuit filed against the state. In addition to the problem in Habersham County's Mud Creek precinct, where it appeared that 276 registered voters managed to cast 670 ballots, the piece describes numerous other issues with both voter registration and electronic voting machines. (In fact it was later corrected to show 3,704 registered voters in the precinct.)
Multiple sworn statements from voters describe how they turned up at their polling stations only to be turned away or directed to other precincts. Even more statements allege incorrect ballots, frozen voting machines, and other issues.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by sjames on Thursday August 09 2018, @04:56AM (5 children)
In what bizarro alternate dimension is that statement true?
(Score: 2, Redundant) by HiThere on Thursday August 09 2018, @05:52PM (2 children)
It *isn't* that Republican. They used to regularly elect Dixiecrats. This isn't loyalty to a party we're talking about here.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:38PM (1 child)
What are you talking about? Three times in the last 55 years Georgia went Democrat on the presidential ticket, and two of those times were when Carter was running. Even during the great landslide election for Lyndon Johnson, Georgia went Republican. And keep in mind that those Dixiecrats are the Republican party after the mass exodus following the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @01:09AM
One senator switched parties. One representative switched parties.
Fundamentally, the "party switch" concept is false. It's public relations nonsense. Democrats don't want to admit that they have an uninterrupted history that goes back to when they fought against civil rights.
Tell a lie often enough, and people may believe it. :-(
The real changes have been minor and weird: Democrats now feel entitled to black votes. Democrats offer addiction to welfare and affirmative action, not independence and respect. (It is racist to presume that blacks are incapable.) Democrats still react with outrage when black people don't act as democrats expect. Just a few days ago, a bunch of democrats formed a threatening mob when they found Candice Owens having breakfast with a white person. A few months back, they were telling Kayne West that he really shouldn't speak up about politics, claiming he was out of place. When wealthy democrats hire housekeepers, they choose illegal aliens over blacks who are American citizens.
In other words, the typical democrat doesn't actually respect blacks. The situation is more like... some sort of pet or zoo animal with a defect, or maybe a severely retarded child. There is no respect. Democrats, to the extent that they do any good for blacks at all, are just competing with each other to display virtue.
(Score: 2) by schad on Tuesday August 14 2018, @06:55PM (1 child)
I live in Georgia, and it's true. GA went 51% for Trump, 46% for Clinton. Metro Atlanta is pretty strongly Democratic. It seems probable that GA will flip to the Ds in the next 20 years or so.
Now, with that said, the Republicans in GA are super Republican. This tends to make the state seem more Republican than it actually is, because the craziest possible person tends to get elected by the 51% that will vote for anyone with an (R) after his name.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday August 14 2018, @11:37PM
However, in the presidential race, Ga. has gone red for the last 6 presidents. The only reason Ga. voted for Carter is that he's a native son.
The Atlanta area is fairly blue but the rest of the state is red, and as you said, the Republicans are VERY Republican.