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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 23 2018, @10:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the conflict-of-interest-much? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by stretch611 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:48AM (1 child)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:48AM (#752692)

    The voters don't seem to mind. They keep on reelecting these goofs.

    Well now there are potentially 340,000 votes against this asshat that will not even be considered. Makes it harder to not re-elect him.

    In addition, Brian Kemp and his office are named in a lawsuit for:
      - blocking 53,000 voter registration applications [11alive.com],
      - Throwing out a disproportionate number of absentee ballots [11alive.com],
      - election machine hacking under his watch [onlineathens.com] (and he refuse to upgrade the machines which lack a paper trail.

    Note that his office can throw out absentee ballots on a whim [electoral-vote.com] without even needing to notify people that it was done or even allow them to appeal the decision.

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    Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:34AM (#752754)

    Yes, and the effort to counter any of this is too feeble to notice. The voters have to take their own initiative.