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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   
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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• Re:Can we even find any common ground here? (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @12:24AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @12:24AM (#753406)

  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.

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