Discussion for article #229431
Okay, I’m confused, have the registrations been processed or not?
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Georgia state officials says it has, but refuse to check. court says they don’t have to check.
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Unbelievable. There should be NO remedy too extreme to make sure that citizens can vote.
I hope the New Georgia Project appeals.
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There is no record of the registrations as far as I know. Georgia has a long history of stuff like this and I do not mean 50 years ago,I mean recently.
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New Georgia - a lot like the Old Georgia.
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Apparently NGP has an updated resource that tells them whether a newly registered voter will show up on the rolls. So far, that 40K is still missing.
I think the Ga. GOP is trying to drag its feet to run out the clock. Time for DOJ to step in.
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Do folks in Georgia receive any sort of receipt when they register? If/when those tens of thousands of voters are turned away as they show up at the polls, we should hear roars of anger from the disenfranchised…albeit too late for them to exercise their constitutional rights.
The tactics on the right are obvious. Why not take one hundred recently registered citizens, selected at random, down to the registrar’s office NOW to verify their registration? The response would be very telling.
This is some scary shite.
LD
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Making sure that the counties process voter registration applications is not extraordinary, it the law, and that judge needs to feel the heat from the voters next time he’s up for election- turd.
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The fix is in.
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That’s a great solution, and one that NGP should have done even as they were going into the hearing. Real-time evidence of wrongdoing, if it exists, can’t be gainsaid by a skeptical judge.
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For some reason, I’m picturing Fred Gwynne in the role of the judge.
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If this stands as is with 45K-ish “unprocessed” voter registrations, I have to think that is going to reverberate in Georgia quite a lot in 2016. Might be purple sooner than Atlanta’s mega-growth would have otherwise encouraged.
edit In fact, I would think it almost puts Georgia in play given the “old Dem” base that Hillary appeals to. How many paths to the Presidency have the Republican candidate losing Georgia’s 16 EVs?
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They use the circular file for all new registrations from anyone deemed not likely to vote republican (i.e., single women, minorities, and people on the poor side of the economic index).
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For what it is worth a Writ of Mandamus is technically considered an extraordinary remedy.
I would like to know what evidence the NAACP has that the registrations are missing.
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It’s time to blow the dust off of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment. If Georgia denies people their right to vote, strip Georgia of a couple Representatives!
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Election tampering covered for with Southern laziness?
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pretty much
Not enough information here to tell whether mandamus should have issued.
But this
is not necessarily an indication of prejudice or even of the judge’s attitude toward the suit. Mandamus and prohibition are known to the profession as extraordinary writs. It’s the normal terminology.
I’m not sure whether the remedy requested was the right one, or whether alternative remedies have been requested. But the shite had better hit the fan if those applications haven’t been processed, and there had better be a remedy for any who might have been left out (provisional ballots counted after a showing that registration was attempted, perhaps).
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The New Georgia Project has a record of the registrations they filed, and they have had those records audited by in independent group. And in checking those records against the publicly available voter registration lists, there are some 40,000 names that have not been found. And I don’t understand how the judge can call it a non-problem when the state is insisting that everything has been processed. If it were 40 registrations, OK, that would be a trivial number. But 40,000? That smells of either a systemic problem, or deliberate sabotage.
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