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The Guardian reports:
Georgia secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp improperly purged more than 340,000 voters from the state's registration rolls, an investigation charges.
Greg Palast, a journalist and the director of the Palast Investigative Fund, said an analysis he commissioned found 340,134 voters were removed from the rolls on the grounds that they had moved - but they actually still live at the address where they are registered.
"Their registration is cancelled. Not pending, not inactive – cancelled. If they show up to vote on 6 November, they will not be allowed to vote. That's wrong," Palast told reporters on a call on Friday. "We can prove they're still there. They should be allowed to vote."
[...] Palast and the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda filed a lawsuit against Kemp on Friday to force him to release additional records related to the state's removal of voters.
Under Georgia procedures, registered voters who have not cast ballots for three years are sent a notice asking them to confirm they still live at their address. If they don't return it, they are marked inactive. If they don't vote for two more general elections after that, they are removed from the rolls.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @11:01PM (11 children)
4) Creating laws to oppress people and claiming it is right and just because "they're following the law"
You are a special kind of stupid
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by VLM on Tuesday October 23 2018, @11:05PM (9 children)
So... to clarify, AC is in opposition to taxation, jail or any other form of law enforcement, and registering for the draft?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @11:09PM (8 children)
Nice try troll, no amount of shitty troll tactics will make this voter disenfranchisement OK.
(Score: 3, Troll) by VLM on Tuesday October 23 2018, @11:14PM (7 children)
Such as rationality, reason, civility, intelligence... what other things do leftists oppose?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @11:22PM (6 children)
You are none of those things. At all. But nice strawman you've put together. More shitty troll tactics, be immeasurable assholes until you get called out, then claim civility and reason. I'd find it funny if it wasn't for the actual undermining of our democracy that is happening right in front of our eyes. The last two GOP presidents lost the popular vote and apparently this has made you all insane to varying degrees.
Go ahead, cry about being called names and ignore the real actions destroying our country.
(Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:02AM (4 children)
If the above phrase is redefined into meaninglessness, maybe the above phrase is EXACTLY what we need!
Look into the non-political concept of brand dilution. If you REALLY want to promote fascism, then label every prominent right-winger since Prez Nixon as "literally Hitler". I strongly appreciate the help turning normal middle of the road people sympathetic toward "literally Hitler". Once the left has trained the center that "literally Hitler" is no big deal, I wouldn't mind rolling out the right wing version of "literally Hitler" but us right wingers can't do it without the help of the left virtue signalling like crazy. The right loves "twitter blue checkmark NPCs" ranting about Trump being literally Hitler because we can't get real "literally Hitler" in a couple years/decades without the ranting today. I love it!
Its kind of like how nobody cares anymore about claims of right wing women abuse because its become business as usual for all prominent right wing political figures to be accused of molesting some woman about three weeks before the vote or election or confirmation. Its not possible for them not to be accused... Of course the left's antics have set back womens rights by decades by getting everyone to ignore the claims, but feminists will vote lefty 99.999% of the time anyway so it doesn't hurt their power base so they'll keep on doing it.
Its like George Soros gives the left lots of money but nobody is giving them any brainz... And the alt-right or modern right is kinda the opposite, all the brainz and none of the money.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:31AM (3 children)
Sociology fail.
This time you're making the same error that the DNC makes (as opposed to the SJWs I mentioned above). You're assuming that there are a significant number of people whose political views fall between right-wing (DNC) and far right-wing (GOP). Most people do not hold right-wing values. However, the GOP picks up voters, because the GOP is currently running a populist angle.
This makes sense because the working class is suffering, but they are lacking in education and political awareness. They know that the status quo is stacked against them. Right now, the DNC represents the status quo. The GOP are the ones out there who are actually selling solutions and proposing changes, promising hope that their solutions and changes will elevate the working class. The descent into fascism happens the same as the descent into XML: "if it's not working, you're not using enough of it!"
Certainly, a section of the working class may be elevated by the implementation of these populist, racialist, and nationalist ideas.
The GOP proffers solutions, and a desperate working class takes the solutions on the table for want of better alternatives. You're not attracting an elusive "middle," because there simply aren't many people there. You're attracting the desperate, despite your filthy views. Though you already said that in a way: "Its like George Soros gives the [pseudo-]left lots of money but nobody is giving them any brainz."
Also in a demonstration of the stopped watch effect, you're correct that the section of the petty bourgeoisie that is obsessed with promoting race and sex as the fundamental divisions of society are damaging the progressive goals of the civil rights movements, including women's liberation, because of the lack of an alternative to the two right-wing capitalist parties for the working class. Basically, the DNC set the stage for the alt-right to come to power. Of course, you've shamelessly demonstrated that you agree with the basic idea that race, at least, is a fundamental division of society. So perhaps that cancels out of both sides of the R vs. D equation.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:28AM (2 children)
Millenials turned up at Bernie rallies with wild enthusiasm, but stayed home on election day so they could post political memes on Facebook and Twitter.
It's been this way as long as I've been alive - the far-smaller Republican Party has far-greater voter turnout.
As for Hitler himself, what he offered the working man of his day was relief from the war reparations imposed by the Versailles Treaty. Those reparations were in monetary form, rather they were required to be such "hard currency" as a great many tons of steel, coal and other valuable commodities.
With its economy already wrecked by WWI, those reparations threw a great many german people out on the street.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:11AM (1 child)
Yep. 1920s Germany is the spot-on example. If we see the Democratic Party as a modern day SDP, the similarities are striking. (Per Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], "The Social Democrats and Communists were bitterly divided and unable to formulate an effective solution: this gave the Nazis their opportunity and Hitler's message, blaming the crisis on the Jewish financiers and the Bolsheviks, resonated with wide sections of the electorate." This [wsws.org] is worth a read for, among other things, the Trotskyist perspective of those events. And as we have an actual wolf pack ready to feast, I guess a sarcastic thanks to SJWs and other partisans for crying wolf so many times, as VLM pointed out.)
(TBH, having just wrote that out, I'm still queasy at the prospect of voting for a Democratic Party presidential candidate in 2020. The trouble is, even if a Democratic Party candidate wins in 2020, I have no confidence that they have learned their lesson, so it is likely none of the underlying social problems will be resolved or at least lessened. It would merely be kicking the can down the road a few more years. The coming whirlwind is beyond the capabilities of capitalism to prevent, because it stems from the inherent contradictions of capitalism.)
Those millennials who stayed home posting dank memes are a good example of voters who are left of the Democratic Party. They couldn't vote for a right-wing candidate like Hillary Clinton, and they did not see a compelling reason to vote for Jill Stein, MD instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:08AM
Sure as hell could find a bunch of reasons not to vote for Jill Stein, Stuffed Shirt.
People complain about the anti-science republicans, but those old geezers are a goddamn college of nobel laureates compared to the science-means-what-we-say-it-does woo-woo nutjobs of the greens.
When they come out rock solid, shoulder-to-shoulder in uninhibited, full-throated support of vaccination (if ever) I'll bother to give them a second look. Until then I think that the goddamn libertarians are a more credible group. Yes, including the goldbugs (and they all failed economics).
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:36AM
You might want to take a break here, and change into a dry shirt.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:44PM
While you have a valid point, in this case the law says "If you haven't voted in three elections and don't respond to a letter, you will be purged from the voter rolls.", and I don't see anything wrong with that. Have you ever maintained a database?
If he's following the law in this case, then good for him. There are immoral and unethical laws that should be ignored, but this isn't one of them.
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