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.
Continue reading: 107,000 purged from Georgia voter rolls for not voting in past elections: report
The Secular Jurist 
Ah, Republicans! Don’t know where they’d be without fair elections. Oh, wait! Probably not in power! Effing pricks!
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Probably not in power is right!
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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How do they legally do this. Why can’t democrats file suit against them? There’s also the Native American issue and two other states.
This is disgraceful
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There are lawsuits in progress. However, lawsuits take time and there isn’t much remaining before the midterms. Furthermore, conservative judges aren’t likely to take corrective action. This is why getting the Left to vote is so important. When they don’t vote and when they don’t fight for their right to vote, Republicans will take that right away from them. This just in: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/19/georgia-governor-race-voter-suppression-brian-kemp
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I dreamed last night that he was indicted on five counts of tax evasions…..
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Politicians must not only be free of corruption, they must be seen to be free of corruption. That is why we have independent commissions overseeing the registration of voters, overseeing the drawing up of electoral boundaries, and overseeing election campaigns. Perhaps it’s time America adopted something similar.
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It’s way past time for America to adopt something similar, Barry. This is unbearable.
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I find the number too big, the process unjust. Or it is the law that’s the problem
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The problem is the law, the application of the law, and the judicial interpretation of the law. But, above all that, the problem is the partisan and undemocratic right-wing ideologues who write, apply, and interpret such laws.
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