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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:27AM (5 children)
Thank goodness. A voice of reason.
I think the other reasonable people are just content with watching the train wreck up there.
Perhaps the law is racist. (imho this is very likely the intention of the law.) We live in a democracy, ostensibly, so the law must be changed through democratic means. One way to do this is to organize voting registration drives among communities that are disproportionately affected. That would be an entirely reasonable strategy if we're supposing that the law cannot be changed due to disenfranchisement and if we're also supposing that revisiting the civil rights struggles of the 60s is not necessary.
If I may put my tinfoil hat on, I would suspect that the pseudo-left is crying "racisss" for the express purpose of sowing division. Keeping the working class divided against itself plays right into the hands of the ruling class. They seem to be careful to not allow one "side" to gain too many reasonable views and accurate assessments of reality. Some views on each "side" are reasonable. Other views are insane. All to sow the wind....
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:57AM (1 child)
I showed up at a Vancouver soup kitchen at seven in the morning to register the homeless.
I didn't get many takers but one guy was quite stoked that I'd given him the opportunity, while another, a 36 year old man, registered for the first time in his life.
I tried to register a woman of perhaps 60 who said "I've never done that before" but in the end she changed her mind and did not register.
I was dumbfounded that one woman quite bluntly and angrily said "I don't vote!" I expect she has what she regards as good reason for not voting, but to be so strongly opposed to voting doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Whoever on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:26AM
Well, jmorris thinks you should not be eligible to vote, because you don't have a permanent address.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:48AM (2 children)
FTFY! Now run along like a good little Republican, and die in a fire.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:13AM
No YOU die in a fire /s. No matter how shameful your fellow citizens are it is not OK to wish death upon them. Runaway drives me batty too but try and save your energy for things that matter, whipping up violent turmoil on a forum is not productive. Stick to calling him stupid and pointing out the flaws in his stable genius.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:43PM
Amazing you can call GP a Republican for having the courage to admit that one of the "sides," in this particular instance, might have some valid points.
These are terms that Trotskyists, i.e. literal left-wing unite-the-international-working-class-to-overthrow-capitalism OMG Socialists, tend to use.