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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, Informative) by Whoever on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:23AM (3 children)
Counter opinion: almost no voters change their minds about whom they will vote for. Elections are won and lost by getting "your" people out to vote (and by suppressing the voters who would vote for the opposition).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:28AM
Countering your broad overgeneralisation with my anecdata:
My entire family abandoned the Dems over the course of the last .... oh, decade or so. Some went republican, some went green, at least one went libertarian to my knowledge, but I can't think of a single close family member who will admit to even wanting the democrats in office.
So I guess I live in a family of party-changing freaks.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 24 2018, @11:03AM (1 child)
Well, OK, and which candidate is being hurt by suppressing people who historically have not voted?
(Score: 2) by dry on Thursday October 25 2018, @02:58AM
The one who has pissed off these people enough that they would finally vote.
Here in Canada, the Conservatives pissed of the natives enough that many who had never voted actually went out and tried to vote. These natives generally did not recognize the Canadian government as they'd made treaties with the crown and many had not voted in generations, but they got pissed off enough that they voted, or tried to. Of course the Conservative party took advice from the American Republican party on how to repress votes. Need ID with a numbered street address, well most reservations don't have numbered street addresses so their ID wasn't good enough. Or like my wife, whose ID is in her maiden name, has always voted under her maiden name mysteriously had her voter registration change to her married name between checking the voter list the day before the election and showing up to vote.
This is problem with requiring ID to vote. Good idea when done impartially such as here for years, bad idea when a party is prepared to cheat.