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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 Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:06PM (2 children)
and has abandoned the dream of Martin Luther King.
I had to fix that for you. THAT side flourishes on identity politics. They simply CANNOT not notice who is black, who is gay, who is female, who is Muslim. THAT side caters to every single identity group on earth - EXCEPT for white male hetero Christians. THAT side is openly hateful of any such person. Well - such a person might be acceptable, if they happen to be self-loathing hetero white male Christians. Those self-loathing persons can easily be manipulated, like any other useful idiot.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Wednesday October 24 2018, @08:39PM (1 child)
Is this a drinking game? Do we all have to take a drink now that you wrote the words "identity politics"?
I propose a new form of bingo. For each day, we pick one of the dog whistles that the alt-right use and see how many times each comes up. I'm going to start with "identity politics".
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @12:24AM
The whole point of "dog whistles" is that only one side can hear them. Everybody is crystal clear on what "identity politics" means - or should be, by now.
Example of a dog whistle: "I support self defence." - really means: "I am pro-gun." That way politicians can try to cozy up to one side without alienating the other.
Given that the whole "identity is important" schtick came from the democrats, who apparently just retooled their dixiecrat heritage to appeal to the other side, I don't really see a dog whistle here. The democrats are saying: "We CARE about you!" while the republicans are saying: "They care about bribing narrow slices of the electorate, one at a time."
Of course, given that the republicans are pretty firm on bribing slices themselves, it's kind of weird.