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Wow people who are entitled to vote being registered to vote! Scary stuff for those who are afraid of the will of the people.
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A little off topic but I think we really need more civics courses in our schools. Maybe if we better educate kids on exactly what each branch of government does - as well as elected offices in each state, they will grow to understand why itâs important to vote in every election. For the past 6 years, Iâve noticed people blame Pres. Obama for things he has no control over when itâs another branch that bears blame. I think it would also make it harder for the House, Senate, etc to shift blame and actually do their job.Perhaps if more people understood exactly what each elected office is supposed to do, they would realize why they should and know how important it is to show up. Also, Ferguson city/MO government is an excellent example of why itâs important to get involved.
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âI donât know that itâs going to make a difference right now, in this election cycle. Iâm looking at longer term trends and I think those really could have an impact in the future. Political operatives, elective office holders donât always have a big picture of things,â Hood said. âThey may really believe honestly that this election is going to come down to these 40,000 voter registration forms that are in dispute, most of which would apparently be Democratic voters. If youâre asking me whether the balance of the election is going to come to that, the answerâs âno.ââ
This has to be one of the dumbest comments from someone trying to sound smart, that I have heard in a long time.
An election that is apart by scant points in polling and very likely headed for a run off, and 40,000 votes wonât matter?? And people motivated enough to get registered THIS election, are not likely to vote untilâŚsometime down the road?? Because their energy levels about voting take a few years to ramp up?
Then again, he is from UGA, which explains volumes.
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Wow people who are entitled to vote being registered to vote! Scary stuff for those who are afraid of the will of the people.
Scary for Secretary of State Kempâs supporters whoâve been fed a lifetime of memes (that the blahs arenât quite people because they lack the will to pull themselves up by their bootstraps like respectable Whities.)
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Iâm assuming that whatever anyone is saying here is being said with one eye toward the ongoing litigation. And one of the weird quirks of election-related law is that some things are not OK to do if the motivation is disenfranchising a protected class such as racial/ethnic/religious groups, but perfectly OK to do if the motivation is getting an advantage for your party. So if an expert said that those 40,000 registrations could tip the election to the democrats, that could actually serve as a defense for the republican government officials.
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Using actual fraud to combat imaginary fraud? Thatâs the Republican way!
Last month Kemp opened up an investigation into the New Georgia Project after, according to Kemp, getting about 100 complaints alleging voter registration fraud. The problem is that NBC News affiliate 11Alive News obtained records showing there had been only seven complaints filed of that claim.
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My daughter is taking US Gov as all high school students do. She came home the other day claiming sheâs a Libertarian and there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans. How is that helpful? Why not teach how government works instead of putting the teachers ideas in their heads? Oh, and I live in SC. No doubt there are huge differences between the. GOP and Dems here.
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I thought the comment was pretty absurd as well. Many polls have shown Nunn at the cusp of 50%, the magic number in avoiding a runoff. Many of these newly registered voters are not screened as likely voters in most polls because of their lack of voting history. If these new voters were motivated enough to register to vote, and actually vote, 40K can be enough to put her over the 50% mark.
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The only litigation I believe this individual was concerned with when he made that statement, was the litigation being brought by Kemp and her group. Which he wants to disappear, because in his opinion, all those blah votes wonât make any difference.
Think about that. A political science professor is advocating for disenfranchising voters because he doesnât believe they will have any impact upon the election.
Thus my UGA comment. You know why they donât have sex ed and drivers ed on the same day at UGA? The cow gets tired.
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Exactly, it doesnât make a lick of sense. The year when I first registered to vote was the year I was most motivated to get out and vote, to exercise my new franchise. And just like with a gym membership, a George Foreman grill, your first email account, your first cellphone, etc. you couldnât wait to use it the first time. The bloom slowly comes off the rose every time after that.
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âTurnout in runoff elections is always lower than turnout in the general election,â Gillespie said."
Except, you know, the immediate last runoff election in MS⌠believe you me, if the Senate hangs in the balance, you will see the exact same gale-force turnout in GAâs runoff too.
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You are not off topic TrumpDog. Civics lessons are where itâs at. I canât say they were extremely important to me, because in my household, politics and voting were like motherâs milk. But we did have civics classes in elementary school back in the day where I come from. When they stopped, I honestly couldnât tell you.
But learning why a government exists, what it does, and promoting it, has gone by the wayside. Government does not have to be feared, just the imbeciles who sometime get into government jobs. There really is a cause and effect thing going on here. Keep 'em dumb and uninformed and you can bait and switch whenever you want.
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Bla, bla, bla, bla⌠Sorry but as much as I would like to see greater voter turnout, Iâm not holding my breath. Someone needs to make the sale of why voting is in the best interests of everyone and especially minorities to be civically engaged, sadly a task far from done.
Since when is the potential disenfranchisement of 40,000 voters considered âtrivialâ?? Especially when apparently the Secretary of State evidently does not consider 7 complaints of âfraudâ in some 100,000 new registrations to be âtrivial.â Organizations running registration drives are required to turn in ALL registrations, even those they know are problematic. The New Georgia Project flagged some 25 registrations they deemed problematic before they sent them in.
Where are the 40,000 missing registrations, Secretary Kemp? It is your job to know.
there are 804,000 unregistered black voters in Georgia, the Carolinas, Mississippi, etc⌠if you wonât vote STFU.
Significant increases in the number of minority voters voting is obviously de facto evidence of voter fraud. Canât have that!
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Did she happen to mention how she came to that conclusion? It could just be that she is learning to think for herself. Give her a little space to do that. You will get nowhere by insisting that she is wrong any time she has an opinion that you donât agree with. Teenagers have been known to deliberately make statements they know their parentâs wonât like just to be provocative, you know.
My wife is a Ravens fan, so my stepdaughterâs a Steelers fan.
My wife is a Kerry and Obama voter, so my stepdaughter was pro-Bush, pro-McCain, and pro-Romney.
Iâve checked recent early vote stats and black vote is at a higher percentage than in 2010. 62% vs 68.5% in 2010 for the white vote. Black vote is around 28% for bothâŚbut new voters (they dont have demographics until they vote once) is 8% up 6% from 2010âŚmost of those Iâm guessing are minorities. You should bookmark this link its constantly updated for all early voting states
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