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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrian Kemp's office to be sued for purging 700,000 voters from Georgia rolls
In a response, Kemp says Georgia has never used data from the Crosscheck Program to conduct list maintenance in this state.Author: Michael King Published: 9:13 AM EDT October 2, 2018
ATLANTA -- According to a release, members of the SCLC, Rainbow-PUSH Coalition, the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, and the New Georgia Project are planning to join with others to file a federal lawsuit against Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
Kemp's office is accused of using a racially-biased methodology for removing as many as 700,000 legitimate voters from the state's voter rolls over the past two years.
The suit claims that the secretary of state's office has not sent notice of the removal to voters. The group says that at a Tuesday news conference they will publish a database containing each of the names of the voters removed since 2017, so that those voters may re-register prior to the state's October 9 deadline.
The group says the lawsuit was initiated by journalist Greg Palast as part of his research for Rolling Stone magazine. Other similar federal suits will be filed against other state officials around the nation in conjunction with the Georgia suit. They claim that during his research, Palast uncovered a so-called 'purge list' from what is called the 'Crosscheck Program' allegedly supplied to the secretary of state's office by Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State.
Kemp's office is accused of using a racially-biased methodology for removing as many as 700,000 legitimate voters from the state's voter rolls over the past two years.
The suit claims that the secretary of state's office has not sent notice of the removal to voters. The group says that at a Tuesday news conference they will publish a database containing each of the names of the voters removed since 2017, so that those voters may re-register prior to the state's October 9 deadline.
The group says the lawsuit was initiated by journalist Greg Palast as part of his research for Rolling Stone magazine. Other similar federal suits will be filed against other state officials around the nation in conjunction with the Georgia suit. They claim that during his research, Palast uncovered a so-called 'purge list' from what is called the 'Crosscheck Program' allegedly supplied to the secretary of state's office by Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/brian-kemps-office-to-be-sued-for-purging-700000-voters-from-georgia-rolls/85-600064018
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Brian Kemp's office to be sued for purging 700,000 voters from Georgia rolls (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Oct 2018
OP
Gee I wonder which way Trump's entitled drunk frat boy rapist would vote on this?
workinclasszero
Oct 2018
#3
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. K&R
Dirty rotten bastards. They know they can't win without cheating.
manor321
(3,344 posts)2. LOL
The courts will be so damned slow it won't make a difference. And then at the end the Supreme Court will side with Georgia 5-4.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)3. Gee I wonder which way Trump's entitled drunk frat boy rapist would vote on this?
malaise
(269,157 posts)4. Get here to the greatest page
NOW
Qutzupalotl
(14,322 posts)5. They can check their registration and reregister at
http://www.vote.org or the link in my sig line. GOTV!