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“As it drew nearer, excitement grew intense. Swarms of adventurers expecting the overthrow of the Government crowded into Washington.” ― Thomas Dixon Jr., The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Was this before or after (now) Governor Kemp purged the voter rolls when he was still Secretary of State?
How much money is on the Right when people like this can go on crapping in the pool? Where did the guy get such specific information on the voting rolls?
A plague on their houses. They will steal this next election if they can, and if they EVER get into power again the will close the door on all of us.
Just a friendly reminder to burn your social media presence in anticipation. Pogroms are a great way of keeping your vicious followers from turning on you.
Republicans will use every dirty trick they can to rig elections and the corrupted Supreme Court will sit back and let them.
“I just want to find 11,780 votes…”
Elbridge Gerry was a founding father… how can gerrymandering be bad?
unhoused individuals can solve this challenge by giving a residential address that is the “closest approximation” of the location they shelter at, such as a street corner, and then listing a separate mailing address, such as P.O. box.
And dancing on their heads to the light of the full moon during harvest season… then in the middle of a pentagram surrounded by lit candles… and if the election hasn’t taken place by then, they just…
summarily dismiss around 28,500 challenges, all from Schneider, because they were made using a fallible database-matching technique comparing Georgia voter rolls with the National Change of Address system, which a federal court had disallowed as systematic.
Wait, you mean that commie pinko liberal piece of woke dog food, Schneider, was daring to use the National Change of Address System that Georgia has already righteously banned because it’s been proven to help people vote?!! That system?! Frank, oh Frank, how could you? And here we thought you wanted to help The Donald become Chairman Trump for Life.
Funny, how he was able to find exactly the number needed for The Donald.
This would be after Kemp was elected Governor.
This shit will continue to happen until it starts to affect republican voters. Somebody needs to start challenging rural Georgia voter registrations.
Is there anything agaisnt just challenging every republican voter?
The penalty for a failed challenge should be $10,000 each.
You left out my favorite part!
Kemp cheats. He purged several hundred thousand voters from the rolls and failed to process voter registrations for about 80,000 citizens as Sec. of State while running for governor. He beat Stacey Abrams by about 50,000 votes.
This new law allows someone to sit at their dining room table making lists that then cost every single person on that list hours of their time plus lost wages and fees to keep their right to vote. Definitely voter suppression.
Are these activists that seek to disenfranchise 100,000 citizen voters being funded by the same billionaires corrupting SCOTUS?
My comment was in regards to the current challenges, but you are so correct that Kemp diddled the voter rolls during his run for governor.
And I agree that someone shouldn’t be allowed to challenge a voter’s registration over something as silly has not using ave, ct, cir, or a dr when writing their address.
The right to vote. The right to make ones decisions regarding their health. The right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. the right to worship whatever it is you want to, or not, as one wishes. The right to go to a movie, a shopping center, a walk in the park or attend mandatory education classes without the fear of being slaughtered. “They” just won’t be content till we’re all under their thumb and tipping our hats and stepping off the sidewalk as they walk by on the way to their yacht or third home. Not going to say the years of my youth (50’s n 60’s) were the “good old days”. But, hell, they were a lot better than some of these days. Listening to the farce taking place in the House yesterday, just begs the question: how can we manage to get our society on a more equitable, sane, realistic path? The republicans have gone over the cliff and they’re taking our democracy with them.
“This shit will continue to happen until it starts to affect republican voters. Somebody needs to start challenging rural Georgia voter registrations.”
You try challenging rural right-wing Republican MAGAt voters! They have guns! You will find bullets flying through your windows and walls and maybe a cross being burned in your front yard. The filth–Republicans!–will scream about the rights being violated as they threaten your employer, your children, etc. Trump and his vicious violent threats and lies attacking the prosecutors and judges in his cases are their model.
Given how often right wing folks get picked up for various election ballot shenanigans, folks on the left should be doing the same.