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still_one

(92,190 posts)
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 10:54 AM Sep 2017

South Dakota GOP secretary of state purges voters as she runs for Congress most of them Democrats

South Dakota Republican Secretary of State Shantel Krebs, who is running for a U.S. congressional seat, has effectively invalidated 3 percent of registered voters in the state — and the large majority of them are Democrats

The Dakota Free Press reported that although the total number of voters had increased to 597,856 between the general election and June 2017, that number is now falling due to the voter purge.
“Thus, in three months, the Secretary of State managed to scrub 3.06% of the names on the voter rolls,” the Free Press explained. “Looking just at Active voters and using the 2.14% August purge rate as the baseline, Democrats got purged harder than Republicans.”
In August alone, 2.63 percent of purged voters were registered as Democrats, 1.87 percent were Republican and 2.01 percent were independents.
The Free Press compared the current party breakdown to 2009 and the results were staggering. Overall, 20 percent of those removed from the voter rolls were Democrats, while Republican registrations increased by 2 percent and independents surged by over 40 percent.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/south-dakota-gop-secretary-of-state-purges-voters-as-she-runs-for-congress-and-most-of-them-are-democrats/

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South Dakota GOP secretary of state purges voters as she runs for Congress most of them Democrats (Original Post) still_one Sep 2017 OP
Typical. Repugs have to cheat to win. We should go after their cheating as hard as we do GOTV. brush Sep 2017 #1
I would hope they are not only challenging it, and working to get these folks re-registered still_one Sep 2017 #2
Yes. That woman couldn't be more obvious in her cheating, purging Dems while she's running... brush Sep 2017 #3

still_one

(92,190 posts)
2. I would hope they are not only challenging it, and working to get these folks re-registered
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 11:32 AM
Sep 2017

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brush

(53,778 posts)
3. Yes. That woman couldn't be more obvious in her cheating, purging Dems while she's running...
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 11:42 AM
Sep 2017

as a repug.

That kind of sh_t should be against the law.

It's certain a huge conflict of interest.

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