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GOP Candidate Improperly Purged 340,000 From Georgia Voter Rolls, Investigation Claims

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 23 2018, @10:03PM   
from the conflict-of-interest-much? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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• "disproportionally affected communities" "disproportionally affected communities" (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:57AM (1 child)

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:57AM (#752733) Homepage Journal

  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.

  --
  Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]

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• Re:"disproportionally affected communities" (Score: 3, Funny) by Whoever on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:26AM

  by Whoever (4524) on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:26AM (#752829) Journal

  Well, jmorris thinks you should not be eligible to vote, because you don't have a permanent address.

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