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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: 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.