It DOES appear that Republicans in Georgia ARE straight up trying to get rid of voters…..
The number so far is thought to be OVER 100,000 voters….
Oh, the guy who oversee’s this effort?
Is running for Governor….
Georgia officials removed an estimated 107,000 people from voter rolls because they decided not to vote in prior elections, according to a new report.
An APM Reports analysis found the voters were removed under the state’s “use it or lose it” law, which starts a process for removing people from voter rolls if they fail to vote, respond to a notice or make contact with election officials over a three-year period.
After that three-year span, those who don’t vote or make contact with authorities in two elections can be purged from the voter rolls under the Georgia law.
Such laws, generally enacted by GOP governments, have been growing more common, with at least nine states now having them, according to APM Reports.
Voter suppression has become a big issue in the Georgia governor’s race, where Republican Brian Kemp is running against Democrat Stacy Abrams. Abrams would become the first black woman to serve as a U.S. governor in history if elected.
Kemp is Georgia’s secretary of state, and his office oversees elections. Abrams has argued that Georgia laws and Kemp’s office have acted to suppress the votes of African-Americans in the state. Kemp says his office is following Georgia law and that he has acted to prevent voter fraud.
The two are locked in a tight race that could be decided by a relatively small number of voters…..
The President’s own little contribution to intimidating voters (of course, Donald Trump still believes that 5 million of Hillary Clinton’s votes were illegitimate and that she received fewer votes than he from the legitimately-enfranchised) :
Donald J. Trump
Verified account
@realDonaldTrump
1 hour ago
All levels of government and Law Enforcement are watching carefully for VOTER FRAUD, including during EARLY VOTING. Cheat at your own peril. Violators will be subject to maximum penalties, both civil and criminal!
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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
The Bull Shit will get worst as the election approaches….
Trump will be peddling FEAR in a double doses to his supporters…..
Voter suppression efforts aren’t just in Georgia….
Robert Reich
@RBReich
Officials in Kansas have closed the only polling place in Dodge City, where Latinos now make up 60 percent of the town’s population. Voter suppression in full-gear this election.
twitter….
But Sheriff Earp and Doc Holliday would never tolerate that !
The Missouri Republican Party has said a miscommunication resulted in 10,000 voters across the state receiving a mailer with false information about due dates for absentee ballots….
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Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump
The suppression of minority votes is the homegrown corollary of the Administration’s xenophobic rhetoric—an attempt to place a white thumb on the demographic scale…
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More on the Dodge City Kansas voter suppression move…
Wichita Eagle: “Access to the ballot box in November will be more difficult for some people in Dodge City, where Hispanics now make up 60 percent of its population and have remade an iconic Wild West town that once was the destination of cowboys and buffalo hunters who frequented the Long Branch Saloon.”
“At a time when many rural towns are slowly dying, the arrival of two massive meatpacking plants boosted Dodge City’s economy and transformed its demographics as immigrants from Mexico and other countries flooded in to fill those jobs. But the city located 160 miles west of Wichita has only one polling site for its 27,000 residents. Since 2002, the lone site was at the civic center just blocks from the local country club — in the wealthy, white part of town. For this November’s election, local officials have moved it outside the city limits to a facility more than a mile from the nearest bus stop, citing road construction that blocked the previous site.”…
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