Georgia Vote Shows Signs of Tampering, Civil Rights Group Says

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From https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/georgia-spike-in-temporary-ballots-signals-tampering-group-says

Georgia Vote Shows Signs of Tampering, Civil Rights Group Says

By Erik Larson
November 9, 2018, 3:02 PM EST

A spike in the use of provisional ballots in Georgia during the midterm election suggests hackers purged names from the state’s voter rolls, according to a civil rights group that sued to get all such ballots counted.

Against the backdrop of a too-close-to-call governor’s race, the national nonprofit Common Cause on Friday told U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg in Atlanta that its concerns aren’t “speculative,” as claimed by Georgia Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden, whose office oversaw the election.

Crittenden’s predecessor, Republican Brian Kemp, resigned Thursday after declaring himself the winner of the race. Democrat Stacey Abrams hasn’t conceded.

“Evidence of a significant increase in the use of provisional ballots this year supports the inference that the voter registration list has been tampered with, particularly when coupled with evidence of voter registration problems at the polls and expert opinion regarding the vulnerability of the system,” the group’s lawyer, Chris Campbell of DLA Piper, said in filing Friday.

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[greymattermom]

1. A friend of my sister who lives in an area of Stone Mountain that has a lot of immigrants

told her that everyone in her precinct was given a provisional ballot, including long time residents. I was a precinct manager in Dunwoody, in the same county. We had about 700 voters and only 2 weren't in the Express Poll system.

[groundloop]

2. Yeah, it was 'hacked' all right...... by Brian Kemp

They need to go back and see how many of those people who had to vote with a provisional ballot were victims of Kemp ordered voter purges. He knew the election was going to be close and through these purges, making it more difficult to vote by withholding voting machines and moving polling places at the last minute he was just barely able to eek out a potential win.

[SoCalDem]

4. bingo

purges are effective

[ProudLib72]

3. When you have a fox guarding the hen house

This is the kind of bullshittery that ensues.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

5. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...Georgia, and kemp is steeped in the stench!

...Once again, and as usual--racist republican chicanery on display.

[Merlot]

6. When kemp made the allegation that the dems hacked the voter registrations

I wondered how hacking would help the democrats.

Now I see that voter registration rolls were hacked by the republicans, and what they did was remove names.

As usual, when the republicans make an accusation of a crime, they are projecting onto the democrats what they have just done. It's a brilliant strategy - admit the crime and blame the other side.

[meow2u3]

10. Kemp makes zero sense, re: hacking allegations by Democrats

If the Democrats actually did hack the election systems, Stacey Abrams would have won by a landslide. So republicans are not only accusing Democrats of their own crimes, their false accusations are bizarre and fantastical to boot, so no reasonable adult would believe such allegations.

[Garrett78]

13. Common Republican tactic. Accuse opponent of doing what you did. Control the narrative.

[meow2u3]

18. Not to mention "twist the truth into a pretzel"

Another GOP tactic: twist the truth into a bizarrely shaped pretzel and expect everybody to buy into their fantasies.

[Garrett78]

19. Gish Gallop obfuscation is what the likes of Kellyanne Conway do best.

[Qutzupalotl]

21. Same thing in Florida.

Rick Scott (R-Stuck Pig) let loose wild accusations in an attempt to get in front of the story once Nelson got within a quarter point. A hand recount is going to expose some major fraud, and he’s freaking out.

[elmac]

7. interesting

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[Ilsa]

12. I don't get it. Why have you posted this again

in another thread? What does Moore have to do with this Or trump's handshake with Macron?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211406981

And here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211407295

[NBachers]

16. Yeah, what the hell is that about?

[Ilsa]

17. 3 posts, and it doesn't apoear to have anything to do

With the post subject. I wonder how many more are out there today?

[SunSeeker]

8. Stay strong, Abrams! Don't concede!

[certainot]

9. this is the kind of race where if they can hack in they at some

point might try to make it look like her supporters, like china!, are 'caught'

then they have a ton of ammo for rw radio for the next two years

they're going to make up a lot of crap, and get away with it

[world wide wally]

11. In a democracy, a candidate just cannot be the one counting the votes.

Even Putin knows that.

[librechik]

14. "He declared himself the winner " is ok for bowling

not for democracy. What the what happened here?

[FakeNoose]

15. I guess this means Brian Kemp disqualified, am I right?

I mean, it was his job to prevent the vote tampering, and he failed to do it.
So he's out, and Stacey Abrams is the winner by default!

[Garrett78]

20. By projecting or accusing the opponent of your own misdeeds...

...you confuse the public, alter the media narrative and make the opponent seem defensive when they make the same accusation.

Democrats need to spend significant time talking about this common tactic when they appear on TV. Because Republicans have used it to great effect for decades.