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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: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:24PM (4 children)
Shelby v Holder was decided in 2013. 5 years should be plenty of time for a state government (controlled entirely by Republicans during that period) to respond in any way they so choose.
You just said that the reason there was so much fraud was that the Democrats were tolerating it in order to win elections. Now all of a sudden it's the Republicans, who have put in place the policy you said would eliminate fraud, who are tolerating the fraud. It's impressive mental gymnastics, which tells me that you aren't being honest about your real position here.
If I had to hazard a guess what your real position is, it probably has something to do with the fact that Shelby legalized state-level voting laws that previous Departments of Justice had declared to be racist in either intent or application. Which suggests that you'd like voting laws that are racist in either intent or application. Which means that when you talk about "fraudulent" votes, what you probably mean is that black people are voting.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:49PM (3 children)
The RNC is legally not able to engage or assist in voter fraud prevention:
https://www.judicialview.com/Court-Cases/Civil-Procedure/Democratic-National-Committee-v-Republican-National-Committee/10/201975 [judicialview.com]
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday August 09 2018, @09:03PM (1 child)
Did you read the case in question? Because if you did, you'd know that what the RNC was doing would have been fine had the RNC been targeted all voters, and the problem was that they were targeting black and Hispanic voters intentionally and exclusively. Had they done the exact same thing statewide or nationwide that they were doing in those cases, there wouldn't have been a problem.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @09:10PM
You "translated" my other post for me totally incorrectly and now in this one you confuse the reason for this legal issue with the consequences of it... are you drunk?
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday August 10 2018, @12:43AM
That's fairly disingenuous. The actual Republicans who have been in office certainly are. And such a fine job they did!