voters pending (2015, university, lawsuit)

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An article on the pending voter registrations:
UPDATE: Who Are The 75,000 People On Georgia

"...But of that 75,000, the secretary of state’s office says about 28,000 of those include applications with things like made up addresses or duplicate registrations, the applicant is too young to vote, or has correct information but is not a U.S. citizen.

According to a records analysis the secretary of state’s office completed, that leaves 46,946 pending records that exactly match either the state Department of Driver Services database or the federal Social Security Administration database.

The state’s “exact match” law has been in effect since 2017, and is almost identical to a settlement stemming from a 2016 lawsuit over a similar verification process.

These applicants can still vote in the election, provided they correct the problems with their registration. According to the secretary of state’s office, almost 75 percent of those pending voters used paper voter registration forms that did not match the SSA database, and 23 percent of them were submitted in the 2014 election cycle. The difference is that people on the “pending” list have 26 months from when they are first added to clear up discrepancies and have their registration become active.

The pending applicants include people with mismatched names, addresses and Social Security numbers among other things.

That includes names like “Jesus Christ,” “Magic Mike,” and “Badeye,” as well as people using churches, university buildings and other non-residential addresses as their own.

The SSA database does not give a specific reason for what part of a registration does not match.

In addition to noting pending applications does not prevent someone from voting in this November’s election, the secretary of state’s office also said data on registrations and demographics show pending voters are an isolated exception to the voter registration process...."


"When did they submit their registrations?

9,106 (17.1 percent) registrations were submitted in 2018

4,509 (8.5 percent) registrations were submitted in 2017

24,285 (45.6 percent) registrations were submitted in 2016

2,009 (3.8 percent) registrations were submitted in 2015

12,817 (24.1 percent) registrations were submitted in 2014"..."


From a tweet from Erick Erickson, information not in this article (so take it FWIW): 11,024 of the pending with incorrect social security numbers come from Abrams' New Georgia Project and so were filed by that group and not specifically by the voter.