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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:09AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:09AM (#752706)

    The POTUS is openly calling "the left" an angry mob perpetrating violence. This is 100% the tactics of fascism and our POTUS is inspiring his base to treat fellow citizens as enemy combatants.

    Can you point to a tweet, a speech, or anything else that came from Trump that backs up this claim? You know actual evidence, not a media story claiming there is evidence.

    I had the same discussion about Trump's racism back when that was all over the media:
    AntiTrumper: "Trump tweets horrible racist stuff all the time"
    Me: "That's bad, can you show me some of these tweets?"
    Get sent a link to a story about Trump's bad tweets and how horrible he is. Zero actual quotes in it.
    Me: "That's just a story saying he's bad. Can you link to the actual tweets?"
    Get sent a different story about Trump's racism. Still no actual quotes or speeches.
    Me: "That's just the same story on a different website. Where's the actual evidence?"
    AntiTrumper : "You're just a horrible racist who supports him because he's horrible too."
    Me: "But you can't show me even one racist tweet from him?"
    AntiTrumper has a meltdown and descends into screaming abuse.
    Me: " Well, you've just convinced me to get out and vote for him."

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:43AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:43AM (#752773)

    I know doing a Google search is hard so here you go https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83 [huffingtonpost.com]

    These are all facts you can go verify, no need to cry "fake news MSM lies!"

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:24AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:24AM (#752807)

      Q . E . fucking D .

      Another article claiming Trump is a racist piece of shit without actually quoting any racist tweets. It is another long list of people saying his tweets are racist without actually demonstrating it. Apparently TDS is real and involves the inability to comprehend simple english.

      Link to an actual racist tweet you idiot.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:33PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:33PM (#752986)

        https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83 [huffingtonpost.com]

        But we both know you won't accept the obvious facts about Trump's racism unless he tweets the word nigger.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:07PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:07PM (#753107)

          You're repeating yourself and still failing basic reading comprehension.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:48AM (#752813)

    I wonder if it is due to wikipedia training them with its stupid policies: "No original research. You must quote somebody else."
    The dickheads would have deleted Stephen Hawking saying "gravity pulls downward" for being a primary source.