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Mystery of missing votes deepens as Congress investigates Georgia:
To find a clue about what might have gone wrong with Georgia's election last fall, look no further than voting machine No. 3 at the Winterville Train Depot outside Athens.
On machine No. 3, Republicans won every race. On each of the other six machines in that precinct, Democrats won every race.The odds of an anomaly that large are less than 1 in 1 million, according to a statistician's analysis in court documents. The strange results would disappear if votes for Democratic and Republican candidates were flipped on machine No. 3.
It just so happens that this occurred in Republican Brian Kemp's home precinct, where he initially had a problem voting when his yellow voter access card didn't work because a poll worker forgot to activate it. At the time, Kemp was secretary of state — Georgia's top election official — and running for governor in a tight contest with Democrat Stacey Abrams.
The suspicious results in Winterville are evidence in the ongoing mystery of whether errors with voting machines contributed to a stark drop-off in votes recorded in the race for Georgia lieutenant governor between Republican Geoff Duncan, who ended up winning, and Democrat Sarah Riggs Amico.
Even though it was the second race on the ballot, fewer votes were counted for lieutenant governor than for labor commissioner, insurance commissioner and every other statewide contest lower on the ballot. Roughly 80,000 fewer votes were counted for lieutenant governor than in other down-ballot elections.
The potential voting irregularities were included among 15,500 pages of documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that have also been turned over to the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, which is looking into Georgia's elections. The documents, provided under the Georgia Open Records Act, offer details of alleged voting irregularities but no answers.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office has refused to open an investigation. State election officials say the low number of votes could have been caused by low interest in the lieutenant governor's race or where that contest appeared on the ballot.
'It is not letting me vote for who I want': Video shows electronic machine changing ballot in Mississippi (Paywalled and/or Javascript required):
Over and over again, the man touches a box on an electronic voting machine to cast his ballot for Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Bill Waller Jr. And over and over again, the machine instead checks off a vote for Waller's opponent in Tuesday's GOP runoff, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves.
"How would that happen?" a woman exclaims in the background.
"It is not letting me vote for who I want to vote for," the man says.
The moment, captured on a video uploaded to Facebook and Twitter, where it's gotten nearly 750,000 views as of early Wednesday, shows one of at least three malfunctioning voting machines reported in two counties in Mississippi, state elections officials confirmed.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 29 2019, @09:43PM (26 children)
See? SEE?! Voter fraud! We need to require IDs that poor dar--'scuse me, Democrat-aligned voters can't get because we closed the DMV and stuff so this never happens again! Fucking Democrats, always using ni--colo--dar--damn it, black folks and immigrants and Jews and, and, andandand labor union thugs to mess with the elections! They hate America and they're screwing around with the electoral system to make sure some commie pinko lib'rul terrorist from Buttfuckistan gets in so's he can sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids! There oughtta be a law--
...oh. Wait. This was GOP all the way? Huh. Who woulda guessed?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 29 2019, @10:12PM (16 children)
Wait. This was GOP all the way? Huh. Who woulda guessed?
That's why I vote for George Wallace. The only good democrat is a dead democrat!
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 29 2019, @10:15PM (15 children)
Pull your head out of your ass. The Southern Strategy means the "Democrats are the REAL party of racists!!!111one" meme hasn't been valid since the Kennedy administration if not before, and I'm somewhere between baffled and personally insulted that you'd think to try this worn-out old canard.
How fucking dumb do you think I am? How goddamn dumb do you think the site collectively is? At least get some new material that can't be disproved by 30 seconds of historical research, you lazy, worthless fucking troll.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 29 2019, @10:20PM
Yep the republicans are never after the XYZ vote how racist of them!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 30 2019, @12:10AM (7 children)
And, what you're failing to see is, the Southern Strategy WORKED.
Tell us - are the Prisons for Profit still filled with young black men, or have they all been set free? IMO, prisons currently hold approximately four times the population that they should hold in a rational society, and probably more.
What have Dems done to shut down those profitable prisons? Wasn't Kamala Harris a "tough on crime" prosecutor? It's certain that she justifies that with "I got mine, mother fucker!!"
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 30 2019, @12:24AM (6 children)
And what's your point? You just follow whatever you think "works," whatever the hell that means? Because from the vantage point, the GOP's Southern Strategy only "worked" to stall out and slow down civil rights in this country, and set the stage for reactionary useful idiots--like you--to get radicalized and undo what small gains were made in the 60s and 70s.
You have this habit of revealing far too much about yourself when you post. This is one of those times; in this case, you've tipped your hand (not for the first time...) that all you care about is power, hence "the Southern Strategy WORKED." I've told you over and over: you have aligned yourself with dark forces and there is a price to be paid for that. You aren't even reaping any of the supposed rewards, as those are all going to the kind of people who would as soon toss you in a running meatgrinder as look at you. Useful idiot, like I said.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 30 2019, @12:27AM (1 child)
It was the D "southern strategy" that worked. You're losing the whole discussion, not just the thread.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 30 2019, @01:43AM
You really never do allow reality to intrude on your mind, do you? Whatever, keep it up. Every time you pull shit like this you illustrate the points I'd been making about you a post or two previous. And I keep telling you what it is you're doing, and somehow you can't seem to stop yourself. I'm not even trying to lead into self-destruction, which is the hilarious/sad part about this. You're doing it to yourself.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by catholocism on Friday August 30 2019, @12:53AM
You are right that the fight continues against gains made in any decade. But point of order, the reactionaries are still fighting the new deal. The bankrupting the government with endless war is done to eventually destroy the social safety net FDR started implementing, all well the rich continue to shed the equality of tax burden he imposed on wealth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 30 2019, @04:18AM (2 children)
You are very funny, but you're also full of shit. Look up how many republicans it took to pass the major civil rights laws of the time. And remember, it was a republican president who sent in regular army to desegregate the schools.
You're just another tribal savage.
And stop abusing your modding privileges. It's very unbecoming of a sweet girl like you!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 31 2019, @01:18AM (1 child)
Am I just not speaking English or something? The Democrats and Republicans did complete respective about-faces after the Civil Rights movement got into gear. Hell, in the 1850s and 1860s I would have been a proud Republican. Times change; history did not end with Leave it to Beaver.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 31 2019, @04:48PM
The Democrats and Republicans did complete respective about-faces after the Civil Rights movement got into gear.
So what? It's still bullshit. Democrats and Republicans work together as a team. You're just following and believing the theater, and in total tribal emotionalism, you pick sides. You must know you're only helping both keep their owners in power. Why do you choose to believe the lie? Until you break the circle you are doomed to a slow death by the banal.
(Score: -1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 30 2019, @12:20AM (1 child)
Heh, you're so funny! You do realize that if the democrats weren't a bunch of deceitful shits, they would win every election by a landslide, right?
Your tribalism is every bit as vivid as that of the republicans. Quite a show! Your denial makes it a bit tragic. But... such is life, eh?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 30 2019, @10:54PM
HA! -1 Insightful I love it! Makes sense when dealing with... The Girl®
(Score: -1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 30 2019, @07:15AM (1 child)
Do you know what an unhinged harpy sounds like on the internet?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 31 2019, @01:26AM
Yes, I've seen Ann Coulter and Betsy DeVos. Why do you ask? :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 30 2019, @11:35PM (1 child)
you lazy, worthless fucking troll.
Oh! Yeah! Lay it on me, baby! You're my demolition mama!
Treat me like a fool
Treat me mean and cruel
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 31 2019, @01:43AM
Now hold on a moment, if you're getting off on this, I expect to be paid for my services! I'm not naturally domme, but if you're that hard up for abuse that a page full of internet flames gets your motor running...well, it's the internet, and if I've learned anything out here it's that someone somewhere will get off on *anything.*
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 29 2019, @10:18PM (3 children)
Yep those blacks cant get to the DMV but can totally get to the voting places. You realize how fucking racist that is?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 29 2019, @10:24PM (1 child)
When the polls are open but the DMVs are deliberately closed, what do you expect? Fuck off with this "no UR the real rayciss hurrrr!!111" horseshit. The only one you fool with this bilgewater is yourself.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 30 2019, @12:11AM
Dafuq you even talking about? Outright making shit up, it seems.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 29 2019, @10:32PM
I mean... given the DMVs might be placed outside of 'black' neighbourhoods but generally voting sites are legally mandated to have some density related to the local population density... I know you're being sarcastic, but yeah kinda?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 29 2019, @11:20PM (4 children)
racist bigot, tell us how many dark folk you have met who cannot find the DMV or other ID issuing authority
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Thursday August 29 2019, @11:52PM (3 children)
It's one thing to find it. It's another thing to get to it, and a third thing to pay for the IDs. Those second 2 steps aren't free of charge, and often made deliberately difficult. For instance, in some areas getting to a DMV requires a full-day's journey by car, which means that if you don't have access to a car and a bunch of cash on hand for gas, you aren't going. And once you get there, sometimes they don't accept cash, but require you to pay with a check or credit card or money order, which means for poor people who often don't have bank accounts there's another fee to a money order company to pay the fee to the state.
I've been through these shenanigans in my state, which has a voter ID law. I have a relatively easy time of it, since I'm a well-to-do person with a car and a checkbook and disposable income. But not everybody is, and the people passing these laws allegedly to fix a non-existent know it.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 30 2019, @12:21AM
Pretty sure our trolling friend knows this, and is attempting to project his own racism onto his opponents. It's old, stale, and about as effective as a chocolate jackhammer, but for some reason these poor saps never stop trying.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 30 2019, @12:22AM (1 child)
So, it's like, Mississippi DMV offices are located in southern Florida?
Please, find someplace in America where it takes four hours or more to drive from a residence to the DMV. If I tried, I might find such a place. Montana, Wyoming, or Utah, where the population density approaches 1 human being per square mile, or less.
You've been drinking that Kool-Aid, haven't you?
(Score: 2) by rylyeh on Friday August 30 2019, @03:08AM
If you were true to your handle you'd...
But like everything you're saying here - it's a facetious facade. :(
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."