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Republican Voter Fraud
Posted on 10/27/14 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 10/27/14 at 4:56 pm
Could determine Senate control?
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA—A court could decide any day now whether tens of thousands of Georgia voters can cast a ballot this November, a choice that could sway the outcome of the state’s neck-and-neck races for Governor and Senator.
Earlier this year, organizers fanned out across nearly every one of Georgia’s 159 counties and registered nearly 90 thousand people who have never voted in their lives, most of them people of color, many of them under 25 years old. But when the groups checked back in late August, comparing their registration database to the state’s public one, they noticed about 50,000 of the registrations had vanished, nearly all of them belonging to people of color in the Democratic-leaning regions around Atlanta, Savannah and Columbus.
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“We asked the Secretary of State to meet with us. We wanted to understand if we were doing something wrong, or if there was another database we didn’t have access to. But he refused to meet with us,” she said.
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Even if every one of the registrations in limbo does get processed and added to the voter rolls by Election Day, Johnson says the uncertainty has still been “problematic.” Because the 40,000-odd voters have not yet received their registration cards in the mail that tells them which precinct they’re assigned to, “this ambiguity may discourage people from going to out to vote, and those who do go won’t know where to go, and they’ll be shuffled around from polling place to polling place.”
Amidst this chaos, the Secretary of State publicly accused the New Georgia Project in September of submitting fraudulent registration forms. A subsequent investigation found just 25 confirmed forgeries out of more than 85,000 forms—a fraud rate of about 3/100ths of 1 percent.
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The legal battle comes at a pivotal time for the state of Georgia. The state’s African-American, Latino, Asian and Native American populations have grown extensively, as has their share of the electorate. The growth is dramatic enough that many political analysts predict the state’s political identity could swing from red to blue over the next few years.
At the same time these changes were taking place, the state enacted measures courts have found to disproportionately impact voters of color. In 2006, Georgia enacted a “strict” voter ID law. Five years later the state cut the number of days of early voting. In 2012, the Secretary of State purged thousands of voters from the rolls a few months before the presidential election. Just last month, the same Secretary of State lamented before an audience of Republican activists that the registration of more voters of color would mean a win for Democrats.
Abrams told ThinkProgress she launched the registration effort to make sure the officials in local, state and national office actually represented the people of the state.
LINK /
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA—A court could decide any day now whether tens of thousands of Georgia voters can cast a ballot this November, a choice that could sway the outcome of the state’s neck-and-neck races for Governor and Senator.
Earlier this year, organizers fanned out across nearly every one of Georgia’s 159 counties and registered nearly 90 thousand people who have never voted in their lives, most of them people of color, many of them under 25 years old. But when the groups checked back in late August, comparing their registration database to the state’s public one, they noticed about 50,000 of the registrations had vanished, nearly all of them belonging to people of color in the Democratic-leaning regions around Atlanta, Savannah and Columbus.
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“We asked the Secretary of State to meet with us. We wanted to understand if we were doing something wrong, or if there was another database we didn’t have access to. But he refused to meet with us,” she said.
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Even if every one of the registrations in limbo does get processed and added to the voter rolls by Election Day, Johnson says the uncertainty has still been “problematic.” Because the 40,000-odd voters have not yet received their registration cards in the mail that tells them which precinct they’re assigned to, “this ambiguity may discourage people from going to out to vote, and those who do go won’t know where to go, and they’ll be shuffled around from polling place to polling place.”
Amidst this chaos, the Secretary of State publicly accused the New Georgia Project in September of submitting fraudulent registration forms. A subsequent investigation found just 25 confirmed forgeries out of more than 85,000 forms—a fraud rate of about 3/100ths of 1 percent.
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The legal battle comes at a pivotal time for the state of Georgia. The state’s African-American, Latino, Asian and Native American populations have grown extensively, as has their share of the electorate. The growth is dramatic enough that many political analysts predict the state’s political identity could swing from red to blue over the next few years.
At the same time these changes were taking place, the state enacted measures courts have found to disproportionately impact voters of color. In 2006, Georgia enacted a “strict” voter ID law. Five years later the state cut the number of days of early voting. In 2012, the Secretary of State purged thousands of voters from the rolls a few months before the presidential election. Just last month, the same Secretary of State lamented before an audience of Republican activists that the registration of more voters of color would mean a win for Democrats.
Abrams told ThinkProgress she launched the registration effort to make sure the officials in local, state and national office actually represented the people of the state.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:01 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Voter Fraud
I have been repeatedly told this ia a fairy tale. What am I to believe now?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:01 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
This is how republicans win elections - suppress the vote
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:02 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
Nah the fraud will be when there are votes for all of these yahoos who never voted in their life and now show abnormally high turn-out.
The complainers issues is they don't know who is in and out to make sure they only submit the "votes" for the right people.
The complainers issues is they don't know who is in and out to make sure they only submit the "votes" for the right people.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:03 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
thinkprogress.org
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:04 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
They're going to argue semantics with you.
This isn't voter fraud, since no votes were cast.
This isn't voter fraud, since no votes were cast.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:05 pm to SpidermanTUba
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This is how republicans win elections - suppress the vote
So what was the excuse for why they didn't bother to register and vote on their own during previous years?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:08 pm to SpidermanTUba
This is how democrats win elections. Voter fraud.
See how easy that rebuttal was?
See how easy that rebuttal was?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:09 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
Never understood why someone has to be compelled to vote by others. If the impetus is not internal, then their vote isn't worthy of cajoling.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:13 pm to SpidermanTUba
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This is how republicans win elections - suppress the vote
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:19 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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. A subsequent investigation found just 25 confirmed forgeries out of more than 85,000 forms—a fraud rate of about 3/100ths of 1 percent
I'm certain that that "investigation" was thorough and exhaustive in determining the legitimacy of those 85,000 signatures. They pored over them and were able to contact and confirm that all but 25 of those people actually registered.
This post was edited on 10/27/14 at 5:45 pm
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:20 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
But only democrats do this. Typical hypocrisy from those on the right.
Scum
Scum
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:20 pm to TT9
Voter fraud doesn't exist. You guys said so.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:23 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
It's dirty pool, and judo in the clinches..
DWI
DWI
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:23 pm to Revelator
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Never understood why someone has to be compelled to vote by others. If the impetus is not internal, then their vote isn't worthy of cajoling.
I vehemently disagree, someone might need some persuading that their opinion has merit, or their vote matters. Not everyone has the self confidence you do.
In a heavy red state like GA, I can see how someone who leans left might go - why bother?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:25 pm to TT9
Yeah, the fact checking in this article was awesome. I believe none of the story since they took zero time to try to confirm anything.
I could poke 1000 holes, but it's not worth the time, as anyone who doesn't see them is intentionally blind.
I could poke 1000 holes, but it's not worth the time, as anyone who doesn't see them is intentionally blind.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:28 pm to Hawkeye95
If most of those voters were black, why weren't they compelled to register and vote for Obama 2 and 6 years ago like most of their brothers and sisters?
Must be the laziest of the lazy.
Must be the laziest of the lazy.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:28 pm to SpidermanTUba
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This is how republicans win elections - suppress the vote
They're just trying to keep it fair. You know with all those dead people who vote Democrat.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 5:31 pm to FooManChoo
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If most of those voters were black, why weren't they compelled to register and vote for Obama 2 and 6 years ago like most of their brothers and sisters?
Must be the laziest of the lazy.
or they were not 18 in 2012 or 2008.
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