Given that federal law supersedes state law, this would seem like an obvious decision. Is it?
This looks like a no-brainer. Paulw is right. It’ll be interesting to see what the Georgia AG’s office comes up with in response.
And I just love the NAACP guy’s attitude:
Francys Johnson, the president of the Georgia NAACP, said the policy is part of the state’s pattern “to make voting difficult, to make voting that something all Georgians cannot participate in.”
“We don’t expect Georgia to drop their longstanding practice of disenfranchising voters, so we have to go to court yet again,” he said.
He’s obviously been living in the South for a long time.
Why should anyone be surprised that a bunch of Georgia Crackers are trying to keep anyone but those with fair skin & European ancestry and who are bona fide racists from voting. Its their history. Its in their blood. Unfortunately is is one of many roadblocks to making America great.
The South will always be the South. Spent 1 year in Biloxi Mississippi in 65. Anus of the US. Dads pass on to sons and Moms pass on to daughters.
Hey, why not just make it a year? If you haven’t owned property and lived in Georgia at least a year you are not eligible to vote.
They’re working on that - they haven’t figured out how to exclude black property owners yet
The lawsuit claims that the state’s policy will prevent “untold numbers of people from voting” in the state’s hotly contested runoff in June between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District.
In a strange turn of coincidence, this is also the rationale that was given to support the law when it was introduced.
You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year,
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade,
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
SONGWRITERS
ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN - “South Pacific” - 1949
If Republicans can’t win something straight up, they will steal it!
I suspect then Republicans would make it impossible for anyone who moved during that period to vote aka fraudulent address. The hatred does run deep. sigh