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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: 2) by Whoever on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:23AM (1 child)
Why? Are people without a permanent address not citizens? Are they lesser citizens? Perhaps only 2/3s of a person?
There is no evidence of significant voter fraud that possessing a government-issued ID would prevent.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:47AM
Some homeless California folks all registered to vote with their address being under a certain tree in a certain city park, then spent ten years in court to win the right to actually register that way.
In California, Oregon and Washington specifically, for "Residence Address" I was advised to tell them to "put down wherever you hang out".
I registered at the park next to city hall in paso robles, california, and in portland oregon, pioneer courthouse square.
I still have a California homeless-version state ID card: for my address it has what at the time was my postal address at a day center.
If _homeless_ people have the right to vote in North Dakota, how are they affected by the ID law's street address requirement?
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