Georgia election workers caught stealing voter applications.

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October 11, 2021 - 08:42 PM EDT
Georgia election workers fired, accused of shredding voting applications


BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL
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Two Georgia election workers from the state's most populous county were fired on Friday for allegedly shredding voting applications in the past two weeks.

Fulton County revealed in a statement on Monday that, according to a preliminary review, two employees may have checked out batches of applications for processing but allegedly shredded a portion of the forms instead of fully processing them.

According to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), 300 municipal election-related applications were allegedly destroyed.

Fellow employees reported the conduct to their supervisor on Friday morning, according to Fulton County. The two election workers were fired that day.



The illicit behavior reportedly occurred within the last two weeks, according to Fulton County Registration and Elections Director Richard Barron.

Fulton County is scheduled to hold elections to elect a mayor, City Council members and other municipal officials on Nov. 2, according to The Associated Press. The voter registration deadline for those races was Oct. 4.

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[JohnSJ]

1. Fired is one thing, however, there has to be criminal charges that should be filed against them for

this

[dchill]

2. Yes. "Jailed" needs to be added to the storyline.

[RKP5637]

4. Absolutely!!! too much sh** like this is allowed to pass without major consequences. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

6. +1

[crickets]

11. +2

[uponit7771]

12. +3

[Mad_Machine76]

3. Curious to find out the party affiliation of those persons

In any event, they need to be held accountable for any wrongdoing.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Fulton County

Where Biden won by 380K votes. Hmmm . . . there is no voter registration affiliation in GA (at least that is my understanding) so I'm wondering if those 300 ballots were even entered in the system.

[Hoyt]

7. Officials are still investigating to see if voter registrations were processed first.

Doubt this is a situation where the employees were trying to give one side an advantage. But, we’ll see.

[Sanity Claws]

9. In light of the political climate, I don't doubt that a partisan effort is involved

[Hoyt]

10. Doubt it. It ain't like GOPers are running for Atlanta mayor.

[gratuitous]

8. So we're back to that

The registration battles continue. Many years ago, Democrats were all about getting people registered to vote. They collected lots and lots of registration cards and got people signed up. They were assisted by ACORN, which not only went to state and county fairs, but would go door to door, signing people up to vote. The Republicans figured they'd get in on the action, too. But they soon found that a lot of the people they were registering weren't signing up as Republicans, so they'd just toss those cards.

Enter the state legislatures, which passed laws requiring anyone gathering mass registrations had to submit all the cards they collected. Didn't faze Republicans, who then signed voter registration cards at Democratic and ACORN events in the name of Mickey Mouse or Big Bird. Then they squealed to the county registrars that Democrats were registering people to vote who weren't eligible to vote - fraud! So they started separating out the suspicious cards to bring them to the registrar's attention, while still complying with the law.

So the Republicans went after ACORN. And here we are again, only now it's not Republicans shit-canning voter registration cards filled out for the wrong party, it's county election workers. The excerpt is silent on the affiliation of the election workers, but if history is any guide, a wild guess wouldn't be unwarranted.