Georgia likely removed nearly 200k from voter rolls wrongfully, report says
Source: CNN
(CNN)The state of Georgia has likely removed nearly 200,000 Georgia citizens from the voter rolls for wrongfully concluding that those people had moved and not changed the address on their voter registration, when in fact they never moved, according to a new report released on Wednesday.
The ACLU of Georgia released the report which was conducted by the Palast Investigative Fund, a nonpartisan group that focuses on data journalism, on Wednesday.
For the report, Palast hired expert firms to conduct an Advanced Address List Hygiene, a method of residential address verification, to review 313,243 names that were removed from the state's voter rolls in late 2019. Their findings claim that 63.3% of voters had not, in fact, moved and were purged in error.
Reacting to the report, Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU of Georgia, told CNN, "on the one hand, I was deeply saddened and on the other side, not entirely surprised."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/georgia-voter-rolls-report/index.html
llashram
(6,265 posts)the voter suppression crews are being exposed. That's a good thing right? In these lawless times, I figure that they just don't give a damn because they know court(s) cases are going to drag on past the election.
groundloop
(11,519 posts)It's just fucking pathetic that GOPers cling to power by keeping people form voting.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)DFW
(54,408 posts)A recall movement needs to be launched. Kemp is not a legitimately elected governor. As the GA Secretary of State during the election, he knows this better than anyone.
I hope the new Congress enacts a mandatory ten years without parole for deliberate election manipulation.
onetexan
(13,043 posts)OnlinePoker
(5,722 posts)...What Baiye didn't know was he'd been caught up in one of the most hotly debated campaign issues in Georgia. It turned out that a year earlier Baiye had been removed from the voter rolls in a purge led by the office of Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who was running for governor against Abrams.
On a single day in late July 2017, Kemp's office had removed from the rolls 560,000 Georgians who had been flagged because they'd skipped one too many elections. Abrams would later call the purge the "use-it-or-lose-it scheme." An APM Reports investigation last year estimated 107,000 of the people purged under the policy would otherwise have been eligible to vote last year, just like Baiye.
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/10/29/georgia-voting-registration-records-removed
Hekate
(90,714 posts)SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Purging someone from a voter roll should require an attempt to notify them at their last known address at least three months before any election, and the voter should be able to return a card or a form verifying their current address or a new one.
If the voter doesn't respond within 60 days, THEN the voting board may have cause to remove them, but the whole process should be transparent.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)have to do to get back on the voting list. Will they be contacted by anyone investigating?
KS Toronado
(17,259 posts)away on election day. Every Democrat in Georgia needs to call their local election office
and inquire if they are good to go Nov 3rd.
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)radio, TV, Facebook, local newspapers and any other means . People must be given the phone number of their area to check. organizations must be ready to help those who don't know how to register again and also help in getting the qualifying information available.
This is urgent. and the urgency must
be stressed daily .
It is so much easier to vote in Canada where I am a citizen . My friends are hoping and praying Biden wins and that there a Blue Tsunami .
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)That's it. They have absolutely no chance of winning unless they cheat. They should be ashamed, but there's no shame - no morals whatsoever - in the republican party.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)First, I didn't get my absentee ballot for the primary (although my wife did) and I had to vote in person (a major issue, since I have major heart disease), and then in the runoff, we put the early voting in the ballot box, and mine got registered that day, but heres did not. I filed a complaint with Fair Fight, and having spoken with them, posted, today, my final affidavit to be presented in the court cases about voter suppression. And we live in reliably blue Dekalb county, so I can only imagine how fucked people out in the countryside are.
Bastards. Traitors.