Georgia is VOTERSUPPRESSION#1, but they are at least making it easy to get an absentee ballot. SOS Office just launched a website where you can request one. I did it in all of 20 seconds. One downside is that it requires state ID or driver’s license.
SOS website also lets you track the status of your ballot.
I’m always a week behind but that New Yorker article is sick:
The results of the 2008 election startled Republican leaders. Obama’s coalition, which included African-Americans, the college-educated, and the young, seemed built for the future. The G.O.P.’s older, whiter voters belonged to demographic sectors that seemed certain to shrink. Republicans across the country began an extended push to reduce voter turnout. “The Republicans realize that voting rules can be changed in a way to achieve a partisan end,” Marc Elias, a voting-rights lawyer for the Democratic Party, said. “Florida becomes a host of that virus—and an exporter.”
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When Scott took office, he and the Republican-controlled legislature embarked on a series of initiatives that curtailed access to the polls. In previous elections, state rules had allowed fourteen days of early voting; the legislature eliminated six of those days, including the Sunday before elections, and restricted the hours of early-voting sites. It also sharply tightened the use of third-party groups, such as the League of Women Voters, to register voters, and imposed criminal penalties for such lapses as registering voters without a permit. Under one of the more exacting requirements, volunteers who registered people to vote were given exactly forty-eight hours to submit each form to the state. Those who missed the deadline were fined.The next year, a federal judge, Robert Hinkle, scaled back the restrictions on voter registration, wryly dismissing the idea that they had been intended to prevent the system from being abused. “If the goal is to discourage voter-registration drives and thus also to make it harder for new voters to register, this may work,” he wrote. But Republican legislators portrayed the strictures as a victory for civic spirit. During one floor debate, the state senator Mike Bennett said, “Do you ever read the stories about the people in Africa—the people in the desert, who literally walk two and three hundred miles so they can have an opportunity to do what we do? And we want to make it more convenient? . . . Do we want to go to their house? Take the polling booth with us?” He went on, “I want them to fight for it. I want them to know what it’s like. I want them to go down there and have to walk across town to go over and vote.” Bennett later became the supervisor of elections in Manatee County. In the weeks before the 2014 midterm elections, he closed dozens of polling sites, forcing more than half the county’s Black population to find a new place to vote.
Yea when he says he wants to make it harder for them to vote, he didn’t mean white people.
They absolutely stole the GA governors election.
https://twitter.com/kevinmkruse/status/1302701037346750469?s=21
They stole Florida too. And it’s going to happen again.
This is just incredible. I did some googling but can’t find any data. I wonder how the US numbers for this kind of thing stack up to other countries.
It’s very hard to talk about other countries but here in the UK a friend of mine back in the 83 GE voted 4 times (using cards of friends who couldn’t be bothered to vote) against the Thatcherite candidate (and the shit still won of course).
Idk if you remember Palast"s reporting on the 2000 election but this is exactly how they stole Florida.
And of course they’re going to do it again. Conservatives have been doing this to black people for 150 years. It’s only in the last 25 or so years that the liberals have been purged from the Republican party that racism has become entirely partisan.
I look forward to the long expensive lawsuit that results in the draconian admonishment of “Hey, you shouldn’t do exactly this thing anymore.” from the courts.
Oh, fun, they use the USPS address change database to find people to remove. Thank goodness the USPS is a non partisan entity that would never be party to any worse shenanigans.
Followed by no punishment and doing a slightly different thing. They should run out of iterations in like 500 years, then WE GOT 'EM!
Or doing the exact same thing and nothing happens.
You would think all those smarty pants Law & Economics types at the University of Chicago would have wrapped their heads around the concept of a freeroll.
They have.
100% there is something very scurrilous going on here. How is it exactly 1000 people?
Like maybe there’s always a certain # of people who vote absentee then forget and vote in person. And maybe usually they just throw away the extra vote, but this time they’re actually enforcing it and making a big deal for PR purposes and to scare the shit out of people.
This will be a thread on Chiefsplanet within the hour I bet.
Republicans have absolute immunity to do all the fraud in Georgia (and more importantly, in Florida). They 100% can and will initiate “fraud” to prove it exists, thereby justifying whatever bullshit they have planned for absentee ballots.
What’s to be scared of, a prosecution by Barr’s Justice Department? Or Kemp’s AG? Or realistically, the Biden Administration? Total free roll.
The Democrats’ plan seems to be “hope Republicans show some decency.” How’s that one looking?
On election night there was only one thing that needed to happen to prove there was wide scale cheating, it not going to a runoff. There’s zero plausible reason for it not to have gone to a runoff without cheating on a wide scale. They’re so stupid they rigged an election that had basically a certainty of going to runoff. I even said that on election day before any results were in. I said if there’s no runoff, there’s big time cheating happening. Guess what? There wasn’t a runoff, and there was big time cheating.
It certainly seems like a GOP publicity stunt. It’s inevitable that people will double-vote, either by accident, on purpose, or simply because they aren’t sure if their mail-in ballot was counted (I guess that’s on purpose, but I kind of qualify that as “in between”). But the system should be able to weed those votes out and toss them. The SOS shouldn’t grandstand and say WE’RE GONNA GET YOU! Just make sure the system works, that the extra votes are thrown out before they are counted, and then go after people if necessary.
The fact that the votes actually got counted is the problem, not that there were some extra ballots cast.
I refuse to like this post.