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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: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:58AM (6 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 24 2018, @12:58AM (#752700) Journal

    The people arguing the "left" position here are calling for "education". Wikipedia has it's page on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-education_through_labor [wikipedia.org] Mao's reeducation efforts.

    The recent best sellers by a Chinese author really brings all that stuff into focus. Cixin Liu happens to be an educated person who lived through some of that crap. He takes so much of the stuff I read about, and brings it into the story, and makes it all human relatable. And, he makes it quite clear that no one really gives a damn whether you survive your reeducation.

    These are the things I hear every time I hear either leftists or rightists spouting about reeducation, FEMA camps, or any method of rounding people up to control them.

    If China's reeducation isn't bad enough for you, maybe you'd like to examine Pol Pot's reeducation schemes. I leave it to you to find articles on the Khmer Rouge regime.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:05AM (#752702)

    Ah, that was what triggered you. Thank you for explaining.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:40AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:40AM (#752771)

    Education is the answer, you can get your panties in a twist if someone actually starts advocating for re-education camps. You conservatives are just fueled by fear and anger, it isn't healthy.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:56PM (3 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:56PM (#753002) Journal

      Fear and anger. I don't know - maybe SOME people are afraid of the left. What is there to be afraid of? Either the left stops pushing it's agenda, in which case everything is fine. Or, they push their agenda until people get pissed off and start shooting. In that case, there will be a couple years of excitement, then everything will be fine again.

      • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday October 24 2018, @11:51PM (2 children)

        by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Wednesday October 24 2018, @11:51PM (#753387)

        Yeah and the right is %100 agenda-free! The right began a no-compromise campaign under Reagan that solidified under Obama, specifically pushing their agenda.

        And that agenda sucks even worse than the lefts agenda, which is no rose either.

        --
        Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 25 2018, @12:25AM (1 child)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 25 2018, @12:25AM (#753408) Journal

          Well, the neocons have been mostly flushed out of Washington. The job isn't finished, but they are no longer in charge. Dick Cheney is gone, along with his sidekick, Dubya.

          • (Score: 2) by dry on Thursday October 25 2018, @03:31AM

            by dry (223) on Thursday October 25 2018, @03:31AM (#753511) Journal

            And now you have a strange mixture of leftist and rightist as head of your Country. Friend of Hillary, well to the left of her economically, well to the right of her as an authoritarian and nationalist. It's a mix of right and left that has been used to take over countries before and led to horrible results.