great reporting, thanks, though how did this nugget get overlooked:
the server wipe!
Excellent report although it doesnât catalogue quite all of Brian Kempâs misadventures. The only problem I have with the content is one of the early quotes: âBrian Kemp is the master of voter suppression, disengagement and democracy by subtraction."
Brian Kemp is an incompetent âincapable of piecing together a grammatically correct sentence. He doesnât even know how to hold the shotgun that he used to threaten a teenage actor in his campaign ad.
Kemp may have suppressed voting and undermined democracy as secretary of state. But thatâs been achieved entirely by bullying citizens and abusing his office. He is most certainly not âthe masterâ of anything.
I have such high hopes for Stacey Abrams. If she pulls this off, she will immediately rocket to national leadership of the Democratic Party.
She is doing exactly what every Democratic candidate and every state- and county-level Democratic party committee should be doing but isnât.
This is Howard Deanâs legacy of 50-state-fighting philosophy, but itâs black women like Stacey Abrams who are making it work.
The entire electoral system needs a major overhaul, not just in Georgia, but throughout most of the country. Elections should no more be run by politicians than baseball games should be called by the players. They need to be run by non-partisan professionals, who will draw district lines, prepare voter lists and count the votes. Courts can supervise them as needed⌠Voters should be registered automatically and if you want ID, fine-provide voter cards to all voters free of charge.
No more representatives picking their voters; let the voters pick their representatives as they should.
Now or never!
Nathan Deal a moderate? Hahaha! This is the guy who played footsies with the birthers.
Articles like this are a big part of the reason I became a Prime member here.
We have to Look past the next election at a longer-term effect. No matter what happens in the next election we have to keep on registering people qualified to vote. Republicans are terrified of that.
I lived in Georgia from '98 to '06 and things unfolded in pretty predictable ways from there. Even Democratic operatives felt there wanât much left of the statewide party in the late 90s. The top line statewide candidates tended to be old, conservative white guys from outside the Atlanta area. There is a big historic political split between Atlanta and the rest of the state, but more about interests than ideology than you would expect. ATLâs progressive or at least moderate reputation is as much bullshit as the rest of the p.r. that Atlanta has been churning out for decades. I was struck by the poor quality of political candidates in both parties and it was just as abysmal in the Atlanta area as outsideâthe Maynard Jackson machine and the developer and downtown business interests provided little in the way of beacons of hope in the Atlanta area.This will be an important race, particularly if Kemp wins. The state is all about entrenched interests staying that way and the threadbare state of the Dems meant that they did nothing to really stop the GOP onslaught.
âA GOP-appointed judge ruled against Abrams, saying the law didnât force Kemp to process voter registrations by Election Day even if they were submitted before the stateâs registration deadline.â
What?!?! What is a registration deadline, if not âthe last day to get your paperwork in so you can vote in the next electionâ?
And this from this morningâs SF Chronicle:
After campaigning against gerrymandering, Georgia Republicans moved to redraw the stateâs districts in 2006 to lock in their majorities. Gerrymandering is a bipartisan if unseemly tradition, but this mid-decade redistricting was novel.
Georgians need to fear an economic backlash if they have an openly corrupt governor. Lots of movies being filmed in Georgia that could be relocated.
There you go again! Trying to be rational and reasonable. Weâre in Trump world now.
When will I ever learn?
__ IF __ a judge (and appeals courts) find that this was illegal __ THEN __ ALL __ BALLOTS EVEN THOSE PROVISIONAL (IF ANY EXIST) ONES FOR THE REPUBLICANS __ SHOULD __ BE CONSIDERED TO HAVE VOTED FOR THE LEADING DEMOCRAT.
WHY
BECAUSE IT IS TO BE CONSIDERED A __ PENALTY __ FOR __ GROSSLY __ ILLEGALLY PREVENTING A PROPER VOTE.
I suspect that Brian Kemp and and others like Waller County TX are resorting to outrageous behavior to purposely provoke litigation by groups like the NAACP and the ACLU. This way they can campaign against âthe outsidersâ.
Not only that, but by removing Pre-clearance, they get the benefit of the change for several cycles, if not indefinitely. And then there is the added bonus of making the ACLU and the NAACP and others fight on multiple fronts and spreading them out.
This part of this story concerns me:
âUnder the new law, people whose registrations are still pending * * * can still vote in-person provided they present a driverâs license or other form of photo ID.â
Take the case of Devin Butler, cited in the article. âThe county claimed his name didnât match their records. But the letter was addressed to Devon, not Devin.â So does that mean the county had his name as âDevon?â
If so, when Devin shows up to vote with his ID, does he still get to vote? Or is he prevented because his ID doesnât match county records (Devon)? In other words, what happens with the âcounty recordsâ themselves are wrong compared to whatâs on the driverâs license or other ID?
I guess it depends on whether heâs going to vote Democrat or Republican, right?