Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]Did they all have valid driver's licenses? [/B]
You don't even have to have a valid one, an expired one works as well.
The only things that have to match up with the database are name and dob.
Also even if they weren't registered to vote they could still vote with the appropriate ID in the midterms.
Originally posted by snowdragon
Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has been sued for suppressing minority votes after an Associated Press investigation revealed a month before November’s midterm election that his office has not approved 53,000 voter registrations – most of them filed by African-Americans.Kemp, who is running for governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams, says his actions comply with a 2017 state law that requires voter registration information to match exactly with data from the Department of Motor Vehicles or Social Security Administration.
The law disproportionately affects black and Latino voters, say the civil rights groups who brought the lawsuit.
I don't think Kemp should be in charge of voters for his own election but the problem stems from information not matching up with DMV and SSA, is that voter suppression? Who is in charge of keeping personal information up to date and correct?
If they were all promptly notified in some way, or an attempt was made to notify them, this is a non-issue.
It's fairly standard work. It's Dem thinktanks coming up with things to disparage the GOP over. That's their thing.
"Latinos and Blacks are less likely to get drivers' licenses or a government issued ID. Voting registration is done almost exclusively through the DMVs. Let's wait until the election to point out the obvious backlog of voting registrations failing because of information mismatch."
Repeat every election cycle.
If the Dems cared so much about getting people registered to vote, then they'd figure out a way to get 57k people registered. Based on polls, this won't even come anywhere close to causing Kemp to lose the election. AKA, a non-issue being made an issue to try and whittle away at Kemp's lead.
This is also why on Democratic Party controlled reddit, I am seeing news stories pop up all over about Georgia's election and Kemp. Something that never ever happens...but the Dems are hard hard at work trying to smear the GOP people. Working sooooo hard to take power away from the GOP and get it for themselves with any method other than having a good candidate and a good platform.
https://ivn.us/2017/05/02/courts-cant-protect-right-vote-private-corporations-control-elections/
Here's a somewhat related thing. It's about how the DNC doesn't even need to follow it's own rules, and sandbagged Bernie Sanders, while the courts could do nothing because, hey, private corporation.
This says a lot about the RNC, too. A two party system controlled by two corporations who don't even need to follow their own rules of impartiality.
Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]The Left does love the double standards. [/B]
It's disturbing that a judge will rule a private company like Twitter needs to open up, because presidential access, yet the corporation that picks the only real viable candidates are ruled as hands off, because they're private corporations.
If the DNC kept to its rules, maybe we would have had Bernie beat Trump.
Originally posted by cdtm
It's disturbing that a judge will rule a private company like Twitter needs to open up, because presidential access, yet the corporation that picks the only real viable candidates are ruled as hands off, because they're private corporations.If the DNC kept to its rules, maybe we would have had Bernie beat Trump.
It's just another piece in a long line of bad choices where we give far to much power to Corporations in our governance.