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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: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:28AM (2 children)
Millenials turned up at Bernie rallies with wild enthusiasm, but stayed home on election day so they could post political memes on Facebook and Twitter.
It's been this way as long as I've been alive - the far-smaller Republican Party has far-greater voter turnout.
As for Hitler himself, what he offered the working man of his day was relief from the war reparations imposed by the Versailles Treaty. Those reparations were in monetary form, rather they were required to be such "hard currency" as a great many tons of steel, coal and other valuable commodities.
With its economy already wrecked by WWI, those reparations threw a great many german people out on the street.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:11AM (1 child)
Yep. 1920s Germany is the spot-on example. If we see the Democratic Party as a modern day SDP, the similarities are striking. (Per Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], "The Social Democrats and Communists were bitterly divided and unable to formulate an effective solution: this gave the Nazis their opportunity and Hitler's message, blaming the crisis on the Jewish financiers and the Bolsheviks, resonated with wide sections of the electorate." This [wsws.org] is worth a read for, among other things, the Trotskyist perspective of those events. And as we have an actual wolf pack ready to feast, I guess a sarcastic thanks to SJWs and other partisans for crying wolf so many times, as VLM pointed out.)
(TBH, having just wrote that out, I'm still queasy at the prospect of voting for a Democratic Party presidential candidate in 2020. The trouble is, even if a Democratic Party candidate wins in 2020, I have no confidence that they have learned their lesson, so it is likely none of the underlying social problems will be resolved or at least lessened. It would merely be kicking the can down the road a few more years. The coming whirlwind is beyond the capabilities of capitalism to prevent, because it stems from the inherent contradictions of capitalism.)
Those millennials who stayed home posting dank memes are a good example of voters who are left of the Democratic Party. They couldn't vote for a right-wing candidate like Hillary Clinton, and they did not see a compelling reason to vote for Jill Stein, MD instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:08AM
Sure as hell could find a bunch of reasons not to vote for Jill Stein, Stuffed Shirt.
People complain about the anti-science republicans, but those old geezers are a goddamn college of nobel laureates compared to the science-means-what-we-say-it-does woo-woo nutjobs of the greens.
When they come out rock solid, shoulder-to-shoulder in uninhibited, full-throated support of vaccination (if ever) I'll bother to give them a second look. Until then I think that the goddamn libertarians are a more credible group. Yes, including the goldbugs (and they all failed economics).