They’re asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be removed in a less public process than a formal voter challenge. The strategy could mean electors won’t be summoned in advance to defend their voting rights and the identities of those seeking to purge voters might not be routinely public.
“You have the constitutional right to challenge any other voter in your county,” Frank said at Cherokee County Republican headquarters in Woodstock. “In fact, it’s not merely your right. It’s your duty to clean the voter rolls.”
Which Constitution says that? Not the US Constitution, the word “challenge” doesn’t appear there at all. And not in the section of the Georgia State constitution regarding voting, either. Is there a secret MAGA Constitution which only they know about, but applies to everyone? That might explain some of the recent SCOTUS shenanigans.
Supreme Court Justice ducks under the desk with a crayon…
Oh hey look there it is! Right there in the constitution.
You joke, but I have always thought that the reason why the modern Conservative movement leans so heavily on the Founders is that they want to call a constitutional convention to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, and become the new Founders who courts 200+ years from now have to defer to.
That would be a hell of a trick when over 60% of the country doesn’t agree.
They never read the article, they just read the title and make shit up to fit their narrative
Okay, so they’re asking the counties to remove dead people and people that have moved. They’re not just asking for random people to be taken off.
Without anyone being able to challenge them. Meaning they can claim whoever they want died or moved and those people can get struck off the voter rolls.
And if you don’t think Georgia has a long history of preventing certain people from voting, I suggest you look at their history of elections, especially pre-1964.
Groups like this are often using these group sourced lists of people that aren’t Republican, and are terribly inaccurate and full of flaws. These are the same people that were “finding” all the voter fraud they couldn’t prove, or show evidence of once those accusations had to be backed up by something in a courtroom.
My registration has been removed three different times and I am very much alive and have lived at my current location for the past 10 years.
That’s what it says on the tin, but it’s a bad faith message. It’s an attack on the right to vote.
My state drivers license should do the trick. It even showed up on their website for a couple months and then suddenly I don’t know who you are anymore. Ridiculous. I know we had one law passed for purging voter rolls and another which greatly restricted how long a voter registration is valid. I suspect, to comply with that law, they just dumped the registrations.
But I’m going to check over and over again and I’m going to vote. I’m going to vote as hard as I can.
“All we’re doing is a free service. Hey, this group of 500 people, or this group of 800 people said they moved. Maybe you should look into it,” I don’t see that being in bad faith or being an attack on the right to vote
Yeah that’s totally under selling what they’re doing… What they’re actually doing is they are hitting up areas that tend to have more transient quote unquote populations and sending out flyers that look like junk mails saying if you don’t defend your rights within 90 days we’re stripping you of them.
There is no reason to use trickery or tactics to make it look like junk mail, The only reason the governor of Georgia was elected was because he was able to purge 400,000 legitimate voters off the poles as the Secretary of State. He won Governor by a margin of less than 100,000 which means he basically ensured his own election which is what the right wants to do cuz they can’t just straight win … cuz they want to do terrible things and nobody wants them to do them
From a book called “How Trump stole the 2020 election” released in 18.
Also Guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/19/georgia-governor-race-voter-suppression-brian-kemp
The books spends more time making him a statement how various conservative legislatures are trying to purge. It talks about what areas they’re trying to purge voters from and explores multiple areas. I felt like it was a pretty good read not saying it’s 100% correct but a lot of things kind of make sense.
That being said a quick Google has sources saying it didn’t affect the outcome I find it very disingenuous to be expelling voters in good standing while using cheesy junk mail style notifications. If you’re really concerned about getting the voting lists all cleared up fine but do it in a transparent method no underhandedness.
What business is it of anyone if the rolls have too many names? People can still only vote once, and the system comes down hard on people who try and trick the system. It should be the State’s job to purge registrations after due process, not the voters’ (and certainly not some random busybody).
You’re just being naive to think that. Maybe a person can only vote once in their name, but they can fill out absentee ballots in other peoples names and drop them off in ballot boxes. Thats why having dead people and people that have moved on voter roles just invites fraud.
Yeah, but why do private individuals have to police voter rolls? It should be the state’s job to do that.
They’re not just asking for random people to be taken off
Yes. That’s how this works. They are indeed taking random people off the rolls.
No, he’s right: they’re not taking “random” people off the rolls; they’re choosing who to challenge based on specific characteristics.
I assume they are just going to go by a skin tone chart like in that Family Guy bit.
When official means exist to remove non-qualified voters, but groups like this want to circumvent that, it tells you they are acting in bad faith and is the whole reason they don’t want to do it the official/legal way. This should be grounds for election interference, voter fraud, and voter suppression charges.
Especially disgusting when people show up to vote, aren’t registered, are instructed to cast a provisional ballot, then are still faced with (potential) jail time for not being allowed to vote.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-womans-prison-sentence-attempting-vote-illegally-thrown-rcna145573 (Searched for a followup to this, looks like she didn’t receive jail time, thank goodness.)
Classic conservatives, conserving a status quo they do not comprehend.
