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Alhena

(3,030 posts)
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 06:26 PM Nov 2020

Here's why Georgia Republicans want their Rep. SOS to resign - link

he wasn't on board for voter suppression:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/georgia-voter-suppression-black-turnout-432405

Election officials scurried to fix the disparities. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, recruited 10,000 voters to work the polls. The state also commissioned buses stocked with voting machines, which allowed for drive-up voting around Fulton County and opened the 680,000-square-foot State Farm Arena with an additional 300 machines.

And now, as the state begins its last week of early voting, lines at the polls are moving much faster.

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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
3. The GOP of today are fascist mass murdering traitors. ONLY because of good men like Raffensperger
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 06:31 PM
Nov 2020

do they have any credibility at all.

I will send much money to GA, it is what I want for Xmas.

OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)
4. Hopefully he stays on, if that's true. Tbh I was surprised the Georgia
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 06:32 PM
Nov 2020

vote went so well, with Kemp around.

Sugarcoated

(7,722 posts)
14. I seem to recall Kemp not toeing the line with Trump
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 09:28 PM
Nov 2020

on something and Trump lashing back, threatening something. In the lead up to Tues I remember thinking it was possible Kemp may not cheat for crooked Donnie over it. Maybe?

OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)
15. That's a good point. I had forgotten that. It wouldn't be a shock
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 03:12 AM
Nov 2020

to see someone like him be vindictive. Might also have something to do with the work Stacy Abrams and Fair Fight playing them at their own game, although he's up in 2022 again so i don't expect the Damascene conversion to last that long !!!

onetexan

(13,040 posts)
11. So let me get this straight - GA GOP wants to sack their SoS because she's done her job and made
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 06:49 PM
Nov 2020

voting easier & more accessible to Georgians?

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)
12. There Is Also The Outstanding Claim
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 09:17 PM
Nov 2020

That Georgia wrongly purged 200,000 registered voters. That would have been the SOS doing that so what is the matter, didn't he kiss their a$$ enough? Disclaimer: I don't know the validity of the claim. If valid, Democrats need to push to have the names added back before the runoff elections.

mchill

(1,018 posts)
13. Those Dominion machines had issues
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 09:28 PM
Nov 2020

The Friday before early voting. There was actually a ruling to get rid of the things, but it would have been too late to run Early Voting so the judge let it slide and an appeal would have tied things up. The machines failed a verification and audit—something to do with voter rolls so the judge told them to have manual back ups. Maybe that ruined the SoS’s plan?

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