Georgia tries to block new voters ahead of runoff

[diva77]

Proposed new registration rule would require car registered in state.

by Greg Palast. November 23, 2020

Georgia’s Board of Elections is trying to sneak through a new rule that could block new registrations before the Senate runoff to people who don’t have a car registered in the state.

This knocks out students and lower income urban voters (i.e. Black Atlantans) without cars. Of course, you can’t force people to buy a car in order to vote. The voters will be allowed on the rolls after a hearing, which will of course be after the January 5 election.

The GOP Secretary of State’s excuse? To prevent voter fraud. Brad Raffensperger claims people from out of state will be driving into Georgia to register to vote in the runoff.

Our team in Georgia contacted Raffensperger’s office and asked if they’ve encountered a single fraudulent out-of-state voter. So far, we’ve had no answer.

We will expose it. We will fight it.

[dem4decades]

1. Does it have to be a pick up truck too?

[Baitball Blogger]

4. With a gun rack?

And bull's testicles hanging from the license plate?

[dem4decades]

6. And a Trump flag flying.

[dchill]

7. It will help. So will ownership of an assault rifle.

And anything camo.

[drray23]

2. that is going to go down in flames in court.

Obviously you can not impose a criterion such as owning a car to be able to vote.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. But the time it takes to go through courts, there will be people who will be

disenfranchised.

[idziak4ever1234]

3. I took a week of from politics to calm down bit. This story just caused by blood pressure to spike

[Crunchy Frog]

8. Well, there goes the respect I had for him.

He needs to be dragged through the mud on this.

[liberal N proud]

9. That's right out of the post civil war methods of blocking voters

[essaynnc]

10. wait a minute....

I thought we were trying to block people from DRIVING TO GEORGIA to register to vote...... but these people have cars???????????? but you MUST HAVE a car to register...

Yeah, wait, NO!, what?

Of course, that's it! I don't understand 3 dimensional chess!!!!!

[Hoyt]

11. More Palast BS. How long are we going to believe his junk?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14606915

[ecstatic]

15. Regarding your post in the other thread

"The third proposed rule directs counties to “review all available evidence” to determine whether someone registering to vote is a Georgia resident."

It then says they can use things like car registration, driver's license, are just one thing. They can also consider utility bills, property taxes, etc. too, just like they always have.

Palast pulls this crap all the time and gullible people fall for it.

Some of what Palast said might be hyperbole, but there are legitimate issues with this change. I listened to the audio from the Board Meeting. Even though they tried to pretend that nothing had changed from existing state law, there is a significant difference in that the wording changed from saying that the registrar "may consider" certain criteria to stating that the registrar "shall consider" someone's eligibility based on 15 pieces of criteria which favor older, wealthier and more established voters. Young people, poor people, and college students (especially those who live in campus dorms but are from out of state) get thrown under the bus if this change goes through.

For now they claim they're tabling the rule and discussion on the topic was barely allowed.

[Hoyt]

16. Did you read Georgia's law that lists all the things they must consider?

I bet not because it’s obviously not a change. Palast obviously didn’t as he rushed to post his junk looking for an audience.

The law has been in place for years.

[diva77]

18. Thank you for your research & post on this. People try to discredit Greg Palast, yet he was hired

by Stacey Abrams to provide testimony for Fair Fight's lawsuit to overturn Georgia's purge of over 340,000 voters illegally removed from the voting rolls prior to the 2018 election in which Abrams ran against SOS Kemp for governor.

https://www.gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-hires-palast-investigations-team-for-massive-federal-suit-to-restore-voting-rights/

[Ms. Toad]

17. I was just debating whether to wade into this or not.

People around here tend to get cranky when I point out things like the actual language in the proposal (permissive, rather than mandatory) and the existing statute that already includes a lot of what is in the proposal.

[ecstatic]

12. That's shady AF and it sounds like they're leaving the door open to approve

RETHUG registrations on a case by case basis. Somebody needs to test this out! Or do new people need to just register as republican and be done with it??

[Bleacher Creature]

13. That's NOT what the proposed law does.

It just provides an additional basis for confirming eligibility to vote. I assume that most people use actual residency in GA, but a car title could also suffice if the person can't prove that they own or rent property in GA.

There are too many real reasons to worry. Let's not invent one more.

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. Correct! Nothing to worry about.

Palast jumped the gun.