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In reply to the discussion: it's the fucking touchscreens ppl. [View all]crickets
(26,168 posts)and that's always been a problem since we got them.
To make matters worse, Kemp in 2018 and the current SoS in 2019 have added to the joy by kicking voters off the rolls by the thousands. The fact that GA is still going to turn blue is amazing, not because it's GA in the deep South with all its baggage, but because GA has changed to the point it's blue enough that even a combination of the usual tricks are unable to hide it any more.
Georgia likely removed nearly 200k from voter rolls wrongfully, report says - SEP 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/georgia-voter-rolls-report/index.html
The margin for Biden is below well 200K right now. If the expunged voters had been allowed to vote, many of them might not have, but enough could have that it's likely GA would already would be in the Biden column.
The strategy is never just one thing now. It's breaking the USPS to slow down ballot delivery, tamping down the vote by making it difficult to register, stringent rules (IDs, signatures, envelopes) for accepting ballots, throwing people off the rolls, limited access to polling places w/horrendously long lines, and internet accessible electoral computer systems, suing before the election over some silly detail, suing after the election for another silly detail, etc.
Every state is a little different, but when tallies are compared down the road, the hand counted paper votes will likely match the polling data more or less, in spite of all of the tricks. The computer touch screen tallies often won't. jmo.