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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, @06:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:11AM (#752820)

    I did read what you linked, I'm not an asshole like some around here, and then I did some searching and responded with info about how you are missing the point. I'm not a political hack, I give 2 shits for the GOP and 1 shit for the DNC, and I actually care about the decent politicians that are trying to actually help the goddamn country.

    If YOU would drop your political hacking for a few seconds you might realize that the "logic" of these laws fails the reality test. But no, you couldn't hear that point and proceeded to spread more lies about "rampant fraud" due to lack of voter IDs.

    I just read this story https://www.upi.com/SD-officials-reviewing-vote-fraud-claims/97861039224924/ [upi.com] from an obviously biased outlet and even those allegations were quite tame compared to disenfranchising 340k voters. No whataboutism is going to save you here you fool, two wrongs don't make a right. Did you not learn anything about right and wrong from your parents?