Kemp’s excuse as Secretary of State was that he wanted to save money by not having new forms printed until the state ran out of the old forms. I wish I were kidding.
And when will the State be taken to court to reverse this?
After the midterms, of course, citing docket availability.
Just the same old shit keeps Georgia on my mind.
Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
The headline is accurate. Mailed proof of residence accompanying the voter registration is not required.
Claiming that the law requires such proof accompanying the registration, as oppposed to being presented at the polls when voting for the first time, inhibits public registration drives, since people may not be carrying around such proof with them and the registration drives are unlikely to have copy machines available.
If only the right to vote were a real right, you know, the kind whose violation triggers criminal penalties.
BREAKING NEWS!
Trump has just cancelled a scheduled campaign appearance for GOP Senate candidate Josh Hawley in Cape Girardeau, MO due to Hurricane Florence.
I can understand his trepidation, since I still recall the indescribable devastation that Kansas City suffered during a hurricane a few years back.
Has suit been filed yet?
As I suspected, Trump’s pig ignorance, besides encompassing economics, science, and foreign relations, extends to geography. I’ll bet he thinks Rhode Island is an island, and that Iowa are Idaho are two different names for the same place.
Georgia’s voter rolls ought to be pretty damned streamlined after this and this: Atlanta Journal-Constitution at https://tinyurl.com/ycp439ak I hope Georgians overwhelm the office and polls with their new and proved registrations.
Oh, well! What can anyone do? I guess a bunch of people will just have to skip voting, but you can’t say we didn’t try!
/s
How hard would it be for them to include an updated notice along with voter registration forms describing the error and letting people know they don’t need mailed proof of ID? That Kemp is purposefully mis-informing the voters of GA should be criminal.
Two simple suggestions: get a stamp to stamp each form with proper info or include a note on a separate piece of paper notifying recipients of the misinformation. Of course, these or any other solutions requires that Georgia officials want to do the right thing. They don’t.
Ah, the GOP gubernatorial candidate is crowing about not following a court ruling. How early/mid 1960s of him.
As if the public is to believe that he cares so much that he will be watching developments of the storm closely.
Well he will be, and has been barking mad about it for more than a year - but that’s a storm by Mueller that he monitors via Fox New. He isn’t going to pay any attention to the landfall - unless he has a property in the line of the storm.
Four years ago, when I moved to Wisconsin, I needed some proof of residency to register to vote. Unfortunately, I moved to WI on or about 20 October and the election was 2 weeks hence. I didn’t have any proof of residency until something like the day before the election and I was working in FL at the time, so I had to sit that one out.
That was the last election for Walker and the one where Johnson won his Senate seat (primarily because the Democratic candidate was Feingold and I think people just might’ve been tired of him being a perennial candidate, but I don’t speak from any experience).
But I’m registered now. The cool part about voting absentee is that, in Wisconsin, we file one absentee application and it’s good for the whole year.
And Parkersburg is in Virginia.
Kemp: “Ah lok to shuut shotgones en defraud voders en if yew don lak it, yew kin kiss mah lily whot ayss.”
“By putting in this false requirement, you’re actually preventing people from registering to vote,” Sean Young, legal director of the ACLU of Georgia, told WABE.”
PSSST, Sean: That’s the whole idea.
They had a really good rundown in the NYT this weekend