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As it turns out much of this is due a group registering people to vote that have not properly train their staff.
Kemp’s office blamed that disparity on the New Georgia Project, a voter registration group founded by Abrams in 2013....says they submitted inadequate forms for a batch of applicants that was predominantly black. His office has said the New Georgia Project used primarily paper forms and “did not adequately train canvassers to ensure legible, complete forms ….”
It also turns out that less than 1 percent of registrations are pending.
His office said that since January 2014, elections officials have processed over 6.4 million voter registrations and less than 1 percent remain in pending status.
And to show just how ridiculous this is.
His campaign spokesman Ryan Mahoney said in a statement that because of Kemp, “it has never been easier to vote in our state” and pointed to a new online voter registration system and a student engagement program implemented under his tenure.
Kemp’s office blamed that disparity on the New Georgia Project, a voter registration group founded by Abrams in 2013....says they submitted inadequate forms for a batch of applicants that was predominantly black. His office has said the New Georgia Project used primarily paper forms and “did not adequately train canvassers to ensure legible, complete forms ….”
It's racist to expect black people to fill out the same paperwork as white people.
Follow the law and it is bad. Ohio was following the law in voter role management and got taken to the Supreme Court, where they WON!
Georgia Counties have been consolidating, moving voting locations to make the process better. Forsyth County, N of Atlanta did this six or so years ago and nary a peep. BTW, Forsyth County it is an affluent, top everything, mainly 'white', second tier suburb. A county in South Georgia, predominately black, starts to do the same thing, all hell breaks loose. It's racially motivated, don't you know. Of course it blamed on the white gubernatorial candidate, who is the sitting SoS.
That sort of thing, managing the registration and election process is managed at the county level in Georgia. it is the political season though.
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The truth is that a law in GA requires voter registrations to match state, or federal records. If the voter registration paperwork doesn't match the state records, the applicant has 24 months to correct the discrepancies.
If these people want to vote, they just need to correct the discrepancies in their paperwork.
As it turns out much of this is due a group registering people to vote that have not properly train their staff.
Kemp’s office blamed that disparity on the New Georgia Project, a voter registration group founded by Abrams in 2013....says they submitted inadequate forms for a batch of applicants that was predominantly black. His office has said the New Georgia Project used primarily paper forms and “did not adequately train canvassers to ensure legible, complete forms ….”
It also turns out that less than 1 percent of registrations are pending.
His office said that since January 2014, elections officials have processed over 6.4 million voter registrations and less than 1 percent remain in pending status.
And to show just how ridiculous this is.
His campaign spokesman Ryan Mahoney said in a statement that because of Kemp, “it has never been easier to vote in our state” and pointed to a new online voter registration system and a student engagement program implemented under his tenure.
"A review by The Daily Beast found at least five voter-suppression practices in active use today. All are led by Republicans, all have disproportionate effects on non-white populations, and all are rationalized by bogus claims of voter fraud."
"A review by The Daily Beast found at least five voter-suppression practices in active use today. All are led by Republicans, all have disproportionate effects on non-white populations, and all are rationalized by bogus claims of voter fraud."
So they make it as easy as possible to register to vote, but people that didn't fill out the paperwork correctly, or have discrepancies in their paperwork is somehow the Republican's fault.
So you are saying just let everyone vote no matter what, or its the Republican cheating.
This is just more of the democrats win by any means necessary, and if we don't win, we won't be civil.
So they make it as easy as possible to register to vote, but people that didn't fill out the paperwork correctly, or have discrepancies in their paperwork is somehow the Republican's fault.
So you are saying just let everyone vote no matter what, or its the Republican cheating.
Here's the thing:
I have a hyphen in my last name. It appears on my SS card and driver's license.
However, many places and companies, some airlines for example, won't allow the use of a hyphen so I have to leave a space where the hyphen should be.
Now, according to Kemp, I shouldn't be allowed to fly because my name on my ticket doesn't exactly match the name on my driver's license.
If Georgia and other states are using programs with the same restrictions, how will everyone's names ever match?
More to the point, why weren't people notified that there were issues with their names not matching so that they could do something about it?
If, as you say, it's only 1% of the people trying to register, surely contacting them wouldn't have been that onerous, would it?
What other conclusion is there to be drawn other than that Kemp doesn't want some people to vote?
Yep, the good old GOP who can't win elections anymore so they've just started stealing them instead.
And all of the bogus faux indignation is just proof that the average GOP voter is perfectly happy to disenfranchise those they know won't be voting GOP. They don't care that this standard is being applied without notice to those who have voted in recent elections, and then, when they do actually try to rectify it, their applications are being held by the very candidate who knows they are likely to vote against him.
Yeah, sure, move along folks, nothing to see here - as long as you are ok with blatant voter suppression by the GOP.
Why do republicans want to suppress the vote? Why do they hate voters? Why do their policies ALWAYS disproportionately impact minorities?
Why do people support such anti-democratic tactics?
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