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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN:Georgia likely removed nearly 200k from voter rolls wrongfully, report says
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/georgia-voter-rolls-report/index.htmlIt is now down to 14,000 votes in Georgia, Biden should have walked away with the State.
GOP Fuckers have to be stopped from continuously pulling this shit.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)If they didn't, then they can't vote. If they did, they have to deal with whatever made it provisional to begin with by the deadline (which I don't know).
DarthDem
(5,256 posts)This relates to people who were removed from the voter rolls before the election when the state wrongfully concluded that they had moved based on their non-response to a postcard or other communication asking them to confirm their address. This practice used to be called "voter caging."
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Voter caging. Got to remember that.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)blm
(113,091 posts)yardwork
(61,703 posts)Terrible voter suppression.
edhopper
(33,615 posts)a man running for Governor oversee the election?
yardwork
(61,703 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Not that this makes it okay, it certainly doesn't.
But shit like this is exactly WHY we knew that going in.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Absolutely imperative!
BComplex
(8,064 posts)federal law.
I don't give a damn if it is the elected secy of state or the governor! If you break a law, you need to catch hell!
Hekate
(90,793 posts)We are experiencing the New Jim Crow as a result.
What I find interesting is how voter suppression has spread so easily from black and brown citizens to simply include everyone of every color who does not agree with white nationalist ideology.
BComplex
(8,064 posts)If we're going to be a democracy, we need to stop the crime of voter suppression altogether!
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Voter Suppression = Racism.
We can't make BLM in a real way until we fix the system.
BComplex
(8,064 posts)we can't be sure we're putting the people in power that can move to stop voter suppression. These past 2 elections have been so far off the polls that it's not even possible.
And we KNOW the russians and iranians have been hacking in. That should have stopped years ago!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Because "justice" in this countty has been for everyday folks.
White collar criminals are coddled. Fuck that!
c-rational
(2,595 posts)Pobeka
(4,999 posts)edhopper
(33,615 posts)In States Biden might carry with 0.5% he was up by 6% to 8%.
Ohio was tied and Trump took it by 8%
And Biden's 10% national lead stands at 2% now.
I could go on.
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)Polls never account for that.
So the question remains -- if I answer a poll saying I'll vote for Biden, and when I either mail in my ballot and it's not delivered by the USPS, or I show up to vote on election day and find out I've been removed from the rolls and get fed up and leave.
How much do all those little suppression tactics shift the final % that have nothing to do with the voter's intent as determined from a poll? This mismatch of poll %'s and actual outcomes is partly explained by voter suppression. When hear 7% of mail in ballots were not delivered, and Biden swung heavily with the mail ins, I figure that's worth a couple of points of explaining the difference.
My point is -- when the election is attempted to be stolen, the polls which represent the *unsuppressed* will of people will necessarily be different than the actual results.
edhopper
(33,615 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,919 posts)I would tell you who to ask but he died in a small plane accident. Ever since HAVA passed it's been even worse.
...And no I do not wear foil headgear.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)but i know exactly what you're talking about. FL stole it for bush in 2000 and OH stole it for him in 2004.
Ford_Prefect
(7,919 posts)barbtries
(28,811 posts)it's bugging me now i have to look up his name...
Michael Connell
https://isthmus.com/news/news/karl-rove-case-witness-killed-in-plane-crash-sisters-want-answers/
msongs
(67,441 posts)edhopper
(33,615 posts)and it is CNN.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)I'd say a better word would be "illegally".
DFW
(54,436 posts)Kemp deserves 5 years without parole for what he did, but no justice, no hangman.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)whopis01
(3,523 posts)And it should be constantly repeated who removed them and why they were removed.
JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)They should never have fucked with her.
You'd think they'd learned their lesson about a woman scorned with Elizabeth Warren.