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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: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:40PM (1 child)

    by HiThere (866) on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:40PM (#753080) Journal

    Actually, it's not inconsistent. Either way could be correct based on the information in the summary. Based on recent history I tend to believe that they were incorrectly purged, but that's not proven from the summary. He could have just been properly doing his job.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:20PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:20PM (#753122) Homepage Journal

    TFA doesn't allege anything except him following the law either, so it's either shitty reporting by an outlet that would be predisposed to make such an accusation or there was so little factual support for such an accusation that they feared a lawsuit.

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