Tide is turning in Ga. Just got this email from Ga. for Democracy.

[napi21]

The tide is turning in Georgia.

Some of you have already heard the good news. There has been an unprecedented surge in voter registration this year in our state. Between January 1, 2004 and September 23, 2004, a record 332,869 new voters were added to the Georgia rolls, 34 percent of them African-American. To put this in perspective, the 2000 Presidential race in Georgia was decided by 303,490 votes. Across our state, voter registration is up 51 percent from this time four years ago. And the final count is not in.

[crispini]

1. Good news! n/t

[mourningdove92]

2. Georgia going to Kerry would be almost as sweet as Texas

turning back to blue.

[0007]

3. Texas may surprise a few folks

[DaveinMD]

4. if Kerry wins Georgia

I'll eat my hat.

[napi21]

5. Me too, and I don't have a hat! I really hope there isn't hanky panky

and we can squeek out a win for Kerry! Ahhhh, can you just hear the media!

[elf]

8. and Cell Miller will bite into the grass!!!

[dolstein]

9. If Kerry wins Georgia

I'll go out and buy a hat, and then I'll eat it.

There's a certain age after which naivite ceases to be an attractive quality.

[CottonBear]

6. Now we just need to get them to the polls on Nov. 2.

I'm going to vote early so that I can take the day off and drive people to the polls. There is a large population of poor people, the elderly and students in my area. Voter turnout is usually just awful. It would be amazing if Georgia went for Kerry-Edwards.

[elf]

7. one of them is my housekeeper

I gave her some education about politics and told her, real patriotism is going to vote!
She is now 56 years old and is going proudly for the first time in her life. Sure she votes for Kerry! :-)

BTW she is more than only our housekeeper, she grew intoo the family!

[Laelth]

10. Our secretary of state ...

Cathy Fox, the vote-counter, is a Democrat. And she pushed hard in 2001 to get new, standardized electronic voting machines across the state because 95,000 (yes 95,000) votes did not register (were not counted) in the 2000 election. No clue what demographic groups were most affected by this colossal undervote, but this year will be different ... guaranteed.

I don't think GA will go blue, but it's gonna be a lot closer than people think.

-Laelth

[napi21]

11. Do you believe in the voting machines in Ga?

I'm really torn in my opinion. I do think they have a lot of advantages, but it scares me that Clelland & Barnes lost when it doesn't seem like they really should have. That's where a lot of the I don't trust the machines came from.

[Laelth]

12. Tough Call

Of all the machines I've seen, I like the optical-scan (draw a black arrow with a sharpie) machines best. They leave a definite paper trail, and they're nearly impossible to mis-vote on. To be honest, I very much dislike the fact that our GA machines leave no paper trail. And if we had a Repub. Sec. of State, I'd be worried. For now, though, I'm sufficiently satisfied that my vote will be counted.

And Barnes losing doesn't surprize me. Turnout was too low, but what the repubs. did to Max Clelland, a true American hero, is inexcusable. I don't blame the machines. My former suspicions that the Republican party has been consumed by pure evil, however, are confirmed.

-Laelth