Voters Sue Georgia So They Can Cast Ballots in Hot Governor's Race

[brooklynite]

Source: Bloomberg

Allegations that Georgia’s Republican-led election officials are unfairly throwing out mailed ballots over hyper-technical errors are set to go before a federal judge two weeks before Election Day.

Hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of ballots are being rejected because voters’ signatures don’t appear to match the ones on file, or because the voter oath is signed on the wrong line, two lawsuits claim. And would-be voters don’t get a chance to fix the errors or provide explanations, they say.

The practice adopted by Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp has a lopsided impact on likely Democratic voters, according to the lawsuits -- an allegation that carries extra significance because Kemp, a Republican, is running for governor on Nov. 6 in one of the nation’s most-watched races.

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Lawyers for the state in the absentee and mail-in ballot cases said in court filings that the plaintiffs, including a Democratic candidate for state office and Muslim and Asian groups represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, failed to identify any individual voters who hadn’t been given a chance to fix perceived errors.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-23/georgia-lawsuits-cite-train-wreck-plan-tossing-out-ballots

[bucolic_frolic]

1. How would the voters know if the evidence has been destroyed?

Obstruction, destruction of evidence

Though I think the article doesn't mean, as it states, "throwing out", but instead means "rejecting" or "failing to count as valid".

[BigGermanGuy]

4. in this day in age

i'd lean more on actually throwing them out.

[Gothmog]

2. The GOP can only win by suppressing the vote

[Tiger58]

3. Tigerram

Is anybody really surprised...??????????

[ck4829]

5. Kick