BREAKING: Court Refuses To Intervene In Case of 40,000 Missing Voters In Georgia

[hue]

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/10/28/3585449/court-allows-voter-suppression/

ATLANTA, GEORGIA—On Tuesday, Judge Christopher Brasher of the Fulton County Superior Court denied a petition from civil rights advocates to force Georgia’s Secretary of State to process an estimated 40,000 voter registrations that have gone missing from the public database.

Though early voting is well underway in the state, Judge Brasher called the lawsuit “premature,” and said it was based on “merely set out suspicions and fears that the [state officials] will fail to carry out their mandatory duties.”

Angela Aldridge, an organizer with the group 9 to 5 Atlanta Working Women who has been working to register voters for several months, told ThinkProgress she was “furious” when she learned of the outcome: “That impedes people’s rights,” she said. “People need information before they go out to vote and they don’t even know if they’re registered or not. They were discouraged, upset, kind of frazzled, not really knowing what was going on. What can you even say to people who want to vote but possibly can’t? They might get disengaged and say, ‘Why vote? It doesn’t matter.’ It’s really disheartening.”

The New Georgia Project, who spearheaded the voter registration drive and brought the lawsuit against the state, vowed Tuesday to “continue to pursue all legal avenues available.” But with the election mere days away, there may be little remedy for the tens of thousands of people who submitted all necessary documents, but have still not received a registration card. Four of those impacted voters were present at the court hearing, but were denied the opportunity to testify.

Dr. Francys Johnson, President of the Georgia NAACP, who represented the 40 thousand voters in the court, called the ruling “outrageous.”

“All in all – a republican appointed judge has backed the republican Secretary of State to deny the right to vote to a largely African American and Latino population,” Johnson wrote in a press release.

[valerief]

1. Just vote. Right. That'll fix everything.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. This is happens when

you PACK the COURTS with partisan hacks. Did you expect anything different from an Rethug controlled state? For anyone living in and being active in Progressive Politics in a Red State or a state that is a Theocracy,you know were I'am coming from. Seen similar petition or referendums drives that would help the less fortunate and disenfranchised thrown out by Right Wing Hack Judges. It's called the Spoils of winning.

[belzabubba333]

3. yes they did it to themselves ,like us in ohio,by not turning out in sufficient numbers

[Bill USA]

4. GOP uber alles!!!