ACLU of Georgia says nearly 200k voters were wrongly removed from registration rolls in 2019
The ACLU of Georgia this morning has released a report that says a 2019 purge of voters from the state’s registration database improperly removed nearly 200,000 on the grounds that they had moved – when they had not.
The report is the work of the Palast Investigative Fund, a New York-based nonprofit headed by Greg Palast, an investigative journalist with a history of looking into state voting purges – dating to Florida in 2003.
Of 313,243 voters culled last year, the Palast report alleges that 198,351 were improperly expunged.
The study has its origins as a project originally funded by Al Jazeera America, Rolling Stone magazine and salon.com for a series of print and video reports on voter purges in Georgia and elsewhere. From the report:
Again, we hired address list hygiene experts to analyze the list. We found and named 340,134 voters who had not moved from their registration address but, whom the Secretary of State nevertheless had canceled their voter registration based on erroneous information these citizens had moved their residence.
Others had moved locally — meaning within the same voting jurisdiction, yet the secretary of state wrongly cancelled their voter registrations.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-aclu-of-georgia-says-nearly-200k-voters-were-wrongly-removed-from-registration-rolls-in-2019/QOUK2FKOWZF6TGZOSDLHQGWHPM/
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Just before mid-terms, I'd read that 17 states were purging Democratic voters!
Finding out on election day is bad news. It only holds up the line, but generally, perhaps dependant on state, the vote is provisional.
