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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:48AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:48AM (#752812)

    Thank goodness. A voice of Treason.

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:13AM (#752822)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:43PM (#752993)

    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.

    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.

    These are terms that Trotskyists, i.e. literal left-wing unite-the-international-working-class-to-overthrow-capitalism OMG Socialists, tend to use.