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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, @06:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:39AM (#752830)

    I read a "scathing" article about Deschle which linked to his lawsuit and described it as barring any RNC poll watchers from reservations. I read the report they linked to and it didn't say any such thing. The lawsuit sought to have the RNC watchers conform to existing laws about voter intimidation.

    Your "side" is a bunch of loons led around by the nose. You think you are righteous because you believe the lies. Maybe you'd say the same thing about me, but I bothered to actually read up on what you stated and think for myself. It sounds like possibly there was voter fraud, but aside from some juicy random hearsay there was nothing backing it up. I found this particular bit enlightening:

    Let's not pretend any of that goo-goo nonsense about how the law ought to apply to both parties equally.

    Really? So someone suing the stop voter intimidation is dismissed as "goo-goo nonsense"? Yeaaah, the truth is coming out and you don't look good.

    Both of the above cases as well as the Ohio and South Dakota rulings deal with intimidation at a polling place. The case law about voter intimidation that takes place elsewhere is even more sparse. In 1992, the DOJ asserted that you can intimidate voters by mail. It filed suit after North Carolina Republicans and the Jesse Helms campaign sent postcards to black voters with warnings about the penalties for voter fraud. The case was settled with a consent decree that banned “ballot security” programs “directed at qualified voters in which the racial minority status of some or all of the voters is one of the factors in the decision to target those voters.”

    So what you've got is vague accusations of voter fraud which don't seem to have ever resulted in an incriminating investigation, but we have multiple examples of the GOP engaging in voter fraud and intimidation. Keep lying to yourself, seems to be working for you so far /s