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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:43AM (6 children)
Great in theory. In practice the political party benefiting from the unjust law wields the most political power in part through application of the unjust law and thus they have the means and the motivation to continue the practice.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:53AM (5 children)
That sounds reasonable, at first reading. But, funny thing - when the OTHER party has control, they seldom do anything reasonable, like amending the law. Case in point - immigration laws at the federal level. Not one congress in the past sixty years has seriously considered immigration reform. I'm not sure about Florida, but I suspect that the D's have controlled Florida's legislature at some point in time. Wonder if maybe the D's didn't write and pass this law for their own reasons . . .
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:21AM (4 children)
Maybe if I were a D or R, I'd care about your whataboutism.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:50PM (3 children)
It isn't exactly whataboutism - I'm pointing out that both parties are corrupt. Now, in my opinion, the D's are worse than the R's, but that doesn't excuse the R's. Both parties are corrupt. Neither party should be having the voter roles purged. Both parties should be working overtime to ensure that no one is disenfranchised. Well, no one but noncitizens. Unfortunately, the D's work overtime to sign noncitizens up to vote.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:57PM (2 children)
Going to need a big fat citation for that one.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:28PM
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/18/texas-democrats-ask-noncitizens-register-vote/ [washingtontimes.com]
https://gachiyellow.wordpress.com/2018/10/19/crime-texas-democrats-ask-illegal-aliens-to-register-to-vote-facilitate-voter-fraud/ [wordpress.com]
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/07/31/majority-of-democrats-illegal-aliens-should-be-given-the-right-to-vote/ [breitbart.com]
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34255/watch-pelosi-says-voting-democrats-gives-leverage-ryan-saavedra [dailywire.com]
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/09/26/140-house-democrats-refuse-to-condemn-illegal-aliens-voting/ [breitbart.com]
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/idiot-democrat-at-ice-hearing-says-only-reason-its-illegal-for-anyone-to-waltz-into-country-is-because-of-trump-video/ [thegatewaypundit.com]
This last one is kinda cute. This Beto O'Rourke bitch claims to be Mexican, but he's Irish. Not a drop of Mexican in his family tree. But, he claims to be Mexican, to suck the Mexicans into voting for him. His campaign aide, Patsy, sent out a text:
Of course, when called on it, the Irishman denied it, and so does Patsy. The campaign spokesthing says the text was sent by an "imposter".
https://newstarget.com/2018-09-06-democrat-beto-orourke-texts-calling-for-illegal-aliens-to-vote.html [newstarget.com]
You will note, I believe, that most of this crap is taking place in border states. If you live in New York City, or Boston, you're still entitled to an opinion. But, if you want your opinion to be respected, you should at least come down here, and see first hand what is going on.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:29PM
They tried on me. I didn't want to commit a crime, so I turned them down.