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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, @11:07PM (8 children)
The alt-right brigade is here to explain why violating the very foundation of our nation is somehow NOT wrong and traitorous.
Thanks for making it abundantly clear that you are traitors. Need a second ass-whooping?
(Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:06AM (3 children)
Speaking of brigade operations, and redefinition of words for political purposes, it seems there's a lot of work being done to redefine the moderation "troll" here on SN to mean "anyone who's political views I disagree with". That's just so brave!
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:19AM (1 child)
Or perhaps you troll so much you can't tell whether you are trolling or not.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:39AM
That's almost worse; in the sense that the moderation isn't even of the post, its merely a vote in support or opposition to the author. That's just awful.
"The sun rises in the East" but I wrote it, so it should be modded as "troll", is simply awful...
As a side issue I've always thought trolling needs an aspect of deceptiveness. But I'm not deceptive. Nobody could possibly be confused as to my opinions.
If you think its hard to define trolling, good luck defining shitposting. Apparently the definition the internet uses, does not have much to do with the definition the definers use, which is pretty funny.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:59AM
That is your response? Lol, I am not even up or down modding anyone. If you are consistently modded troll it is probably because you're so wrong that people assume you are trolling.
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:51AM (2 children)
Stop moving the goalposts. This story is about the Georgia secretary of state being called a villain for following Georgia state law. If you want to bitch about the other stuff, sub another story.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:02AM (1 child)
No goal posts were moved, defrauding the electorate is a traitorous action. You are probably the best example around here of the hypocrisy and troll tactics the GOP loves to use. Treats people like shit: hey that is my free speech opinion! Gets called a piece of shit: hey you're a meanie mean person you should be more civil.
Get a grip and try to realize that suppressing voters and gerrymandering are undermining the fabric of our country.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:48PM
Oh, you have some evidence or even a credible allegation of misconduct then? Do please enlighten us.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:40AM
Care to back that up with documentary evidence. The founding fathers had no interest in creating a democracy. If they had, then they'd have put universal suffrage in the constitution. Many decades later, they squeezed something terribly undemocratic (less than half of the demos had any cratos) into one of the amendments as a stepping stone towards democracy, but that only went part of the way.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves