Just FYI, Georgia refuses to register 40,000 likely democratic voters

[DetlefK]

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/10/28/3585449/court-allows-voter-suppression/

Excerpts:

"On Tuesday, Judge Christopher Brasher of the Fulton County Superior Court denied a petition from civil rights advocates to force Georgia’s Secretary of State to process an estimated 40,000 voter registrations that have gone missing from the public database. "

...

"“All in all – a republican appointed judge has backed the republican Secretary of State to deny the right to vote to a largely African American and Latino population,” Johnson wrote in a press release.

On Monday, dozens of Georgians occupied the Secretary of State’s office to demand he meet with them and explain what happened to the tens of thousands of missing registrations. At that protest, in which eight activists were arrested, former American Government teacher and civil rights lawyer Marsha Burrofsky told ThinkProgress she suspects foul play.

“When we started registering people this spring, people were saying, ‘You know, I registered six months ago, but I haven’t gotten anything yet!’ We thought that was strange,” she said. So we sat down with our list of registrations and checked, and about 20 to 20 percent were not showing up. We truly don’t know where things stand with them.”

Burrofsky said the people she registered in Dunwoody, Georgia, a more affluent and conservative community, did show up in the system, while those in more diverse and low-income communities in DeKalb County mysteriously disappeared. "

[Cha]

1. DAmn!.. No, the GOP is not Suppressing the VOTE.. :(

[billhicks76]

2. WTF

They should be rioting. What's the point if our elections are being stolen? Shouldn't people seek other remedies?

[Scuba]

3. K&R

[Martin Eden]

4. This is a major scandal that should be national news ...

... but it receives less attention than the hispanic legally dropping off ballots in Arizona.

WTF is wrong with this country?

[sulphurdunn]

5. Correct.

If you aren't registered to vote your vote can't be suppressed. Ergo, the elections are legitimate for those registered. Everyone else should have registered. They have no one to blame but themselves, or something like that.

[wilt the stilt]

6. I live in Gwinnett county

and this shocks me. yeah right.

[Principled Peter]

7. The Republifucks sensed they were losing

So they went crying to the courts to make it all better, just like Bush in 2000.

[RiffRandell]

8. So do I.

They always pull this shit.

[GeorgeGist]

9. WTF is wrong with this country?

We The People™ sold it.

[madokie]

10. The only way they can win at all is

LIE,CHEAT and throw in a few wedge issues and away they go.

[Martin Eden]

11. I don't have a receipt for it

and I strongly suspect the money went to someone other than We The People.

[Enthusiast]

12. Roberts, Scalia? See what you have done? You treasonous racist assholes.

[marym625]

13. Greg Palast

Has a new investigative report about this on Al Jazeera America tonight at 9:00pm EDT

http://www.gregpalast.com/gop-led-purge-threat-to-3-5-million-voters/


Thanks for this. K&R

[JustAnotherGen]

14. That's heart breaking

[WinkyDink]

15. OF COURSE, they see! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

[True Blue Door]

16. Vote suppression is Treason.

[arthritisR_US]

17. But these people did register and NOW their

registrations have gone missing? If that isn't suppression I don't know what the hell it is!

[spanone]

18. fucking treasonous criminals

[WinkyDink]

19. Well, no, it isn't.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381

[WinkyDink]

20. Not treason.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381

[spanone]

21. it is in my book

[Ms. Toad]

22. The ones "crying to the courts" in this case are the Dems.

Might want to do a party check before you denigrate using the legal system to protect voting rights.

[tosh]

23. Thanks for the heads-up.

I will watch that.

[True Blue Door]

24. It's a statement of fact, not of law.

Or if I say OJ Simpson killed his wife, are you going to indignantly cite the jury verdict in my face?

And anyway, it's a more profound political slogan than "We strongly disagree with gaming the system such that voters are improperly deprived of their rights!"

Get on board if you want to accomplish something.

Vote suppression is Treason.

[marym625]

25. You're welcome

I think he's the lead authority on voter suppression. He's the one that brought us the truth about Florida back in 2000.

Just love him

[MADem]

26. Well...by subverting the system of governance in USA by gaming that system, one could

argue that the subverters are "adhering to the enemies" of the nation. Anyone who helps these people is giving them aid and comfort. If you pervert the will of the people and take out/prevent the installation of the government that the people wanted in favor of one that isn't of, by or for the people, that seems to fit the description in my mind.

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

It may be a tad hyperbolic, but I like the slogan.

[belzabubba333]

27. oh ffs here we go again

deja vu all over again
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025698698

[belzabubba333]

28. we tried telling him before but he wont listen see it all here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025698698

[belzabubba333]

29. we , as a nation, dont use your book when it comes to law

[jwirr]

30. Do we have proof that these 40,000 applications exist? If so and they do not let them vote THEN

they need to do what they did to Al Franken when he was elected. Keep the R out of DC by taking him to court. Challenge his election. I do not know if this would be possible in Georgia of course.

[spanone]

31. really? i thought we did.

[belzabubba333]

32. lol... nt

i wish it were treason and the con party certainly should be charged with some charge like treason.

[Orsino]

33. A higher court...

...given that a Fulton County judge appears to be in someone's pocket.

[JEB]

34. How long till we have violence associated with our "elections"?

Sounds like the Rights of citizens are being subverted by criminals within the system.

[pampango]

35. From the Center for American Progress: Key Facts to Know About Communities of Color in Georgia

Before the 2014 Midterm Elections

In Georgia, a large share of the population consists of people of color. As of 2013, black Georgians made up approximately 31.4 percent of the state’s population. Latinos made up 9.2 percent of the population, while Asians represented 3.7 percent of the population. Non-Hispanic whites made up approximately 54.8 percent of the population, while 10 percent Georgia’s population were immigrants. According to the Immigration Policy Center, approximately 40 percent of the immigrant population is eligible to vote, and more than 84 percent of children of immigrants are U.S. citizens.

People of color represent a large portion of the Georgia electorate. Black voters have significant political clout, making up 30.6 percent of the state’s eligible voters. While Asian American and Latino voters are much smaller shares of eligible voters at 2.9 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively, those voters are bound to see their shares of the electorate increase as demographics continue to shift.

A significant share of people of color in Georgia are below the age of 18. According to the Census Bureau, 37 percent of Georgia’s Latino population is under the age of 18, while the same age group only makes up 20 percent of the state’s white population. Among Georgia’s African Americans and Asian Americans, 27 percent and 23 percent of their respective populations are under the age of 18. People of color’s share of the electorate has the potential to grow as these younger populations reach voting age.

In Georgia, key issues for the electorate include expanding Medicaid, as well as raising the minimum wage. Recent polling shows that 56 percent of potential voters support a minimum-wage increase to $10 dollars per hour, while only 38 percent oppose it. This issue is especially important to people of color, who represented 42 percent of minimum-wage workers nationally despite making up only 32 percent of the total workforce. Furthermore, polling shows that 56 percent of voters in Georgia support Medicaid expansion, while only 33 percent oppose it. Medicaid expansion is particularly important to people of color, as they are more likely than their white counterparts to be uninsured.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2014/10/29/99895/key-facts-to-know-about-communities-of-color-in-georgia-before-the-2014-midterm-elections/

[Ykcutnek]

36. The media's silence on this makes them complicit.

For airtime that should be dedicated to this, they put on their smiling & smarmy pseudo intellectuals to tell us why Democrats will lose the Senate.

[True Blue Door]

37. The point is that they themselves are enemies of this country.

They don't need hostile foreign assistance in that department, although I doubt they'd spurn it.

[True Blue Door]

38. And I'll keep saying it because it's true.

And because it's a great slogan that would be a lot more helpful to our cause than your pedantic whimpering.

[MADem]

39. Certainly--you don't have to be from "over there" somewhere to be an enemy.

Home grown ones have been the stuff of fiction down the ages, and it's not like we've never seen them on our shores in real life, either.

[MADem]

40. There's a button up at the top of the thread

Below the OP...it's the rightmost button on the left-hand side.

It says TRASH THIS THREAD.

Push that, and your problem is solved. Unless you like kicking threads that annoy you, that is...

[jwirr]

41. Once the election is over then it could be taken to the state courts. I think there was also a

chance that it could end up being decided by the congress itself. All I want is for the citizens to raise holy hell.

[spanone]

42. it's certainly opposes everything democracy stands for.....there should be some law it violates....

[belzabubba333]

43. not according to the constitution but why dont you go after them?

[belzabubba333]

44. im well aware of the trash button thanks ...... eom

[True Blue Door]

45. This has been explained to you before.

We both know the difference between laws and facts, so stop bullshitting.

[belzabubba333]

46. i dont agree cause when the cons take the governmnt i will DEMAND from my rep

that he do to them what they are doing to us now. when they get into power (cause 50% of americans are no smarter than a salt block) and they tried to raid social security to pay for tax cuts to the 1% my reps better pull the same shit and i dont want the cons to have any kind of precident set as to the treasonishness of this tactic

[belzabubba333]

47. you never did explain why you dont go after them. all you did was try to get me to

argue with you over a definition

[True Blue Door]

48. What do you mean "go after them"?

[MADem]

49. Using it might improve your perspective. nt

[WinkyDink]

50. Law is what the term "treason" is part of. YOU, OTOH, are acting like Humpty-Dumpty.

[True Blue Door]

51. The term "treason" is part of the English language.

Here it is:

trea·son
noun \ˈtrē-zən\
: the crime of trying to overthrow your country's government or of helping your country's enemies during war

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treason

Rigging elections clearly falls under that definition. I speak English, so I refer to English dictionaries to know what words mean. But if I ever claim to be a lawyer, feel free to throw legal definitions at me again.

[belzabubba333]

52. youre doing it again

[uponit7771]

53. +1

[True Blue Door]

54. What, you don't know what you meant?

You asked why I don't "go after them." Well, what does that mean?

[napkinz]

55. ...

[KamaAina]

56. Justice Department, pickup on Line One. Justice Department, Line One.

[Egnever]

59. Hopefully people will remember who did this in Georgia.

And make them pay for it.

[napkinz]

57. kick

nt

[spanone]

58. not 'georgia'. it's one fucking judge. NO one should wield such power.