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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: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:28AM (3 children)
It doesn't need to be a thought experiment, as it has been done before. It ends in violence.
You should read a history book once in a while.
Even better, the idiots that rule over you should.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:54AM (2 children)
Really? I'd be fascinated with an actual citation or example. It doesn't sound very realistic at all.
(Score: 4, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:14AM (1 child)
You could start with the revolutions of 1848 I suppose.
Most of those have remarkable similarities with the current setup in the US.
Looking at the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 might learn you a thing or two also.
Of course it might not too, because I am well aware of how your lot feel about Communists. Frankly, looking at the history of almost any European country from 1700 - 1945 or so would be useful.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:09PM
The Russian revolution established a democratic government under the Duma. Unfortunately, probably, it didn't last long enough to consolidate it's power and was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in essentially a coup. (There was a different Duma before the revolution. The word is just "assembly" in Russian, so it's not surprising that it was used for several different bodies.)
It's an interesting question as to what kind of government would have evolved if the Bolshevik coup had failed, but AFAIK the evidence isn't very strong in any direction. Think of the US before the Articles of Confederation were adopted. A mix of chaos and demagoguery, with lots of politics. Only a bit more violent and extreme.
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