Kemp was arguing that "ballots getting rejected is very rare, but also it's a big hassle dealing with absentee ballot appeals, so can we please reject ballots without possibility of appeal?"
And the judge was like "lmao are you serious"
Well, looks like this instance of voter suppression has been stomped.
Suck it, GOP.
Utah next please, we had a huge warning on ours saying it'll get rejected if they don't match. I don't even know what my signature looks like that they have on file.
My signature is different everytine i write it
Are they talking about the signature you would have done when you got your license? If thats the case at least here in Idaho our license has a copy of the signature on it. Granted it could be different state to state but you might get lucky and it would have a copy you could use to make sure it was “right”. We definitely need a better system then this cause that sounds crazy, maybe its just me but I feel like my signature is different everytime I write it. Maybe back in the day when it actually mattered you would care enough to have a signature that was the same. But not in todays age.
It's probably not the same one as on my ID, I got that before I was able to vote.
I think I remember having to sign when I registered to vote online, back during the Democratic primaries in 2016, but that was using a mouse, so the signature is probably butchered to hell and back.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/absentee-signatures-georgia-order-kemp-abrams
Under her order, absentee ballots for which officials believe the signature doesn’t match what they have on file will be treated as provisional ballots, and the voter will be notified of opportunities to correct the
issue. Likewise, those who apply for absentee ballots with forms with signature match issues will be sent a provisional ballot, with instructions for addressing the signature discrepancy.
This literally sounds like the same subjective scumfuckery Louisiana did back in 1964
http://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Test1.jpg.CROP_.article920-large.jpg
You could say any signature you want doesn't match the provided one.
Glad to see we actually haven't matured as a nation one fucking bit in the past 50 years.
Voting rights in the US have never been exemplary, poll taxes and literacy tests were banned but there's always another way to suppress the black and liberal vote. The SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act
on the pretense of how we've progressed so far since the 60s doesn't help.
I don't know why we don't just use fingerprints or something. Probably privacy concerns, but it's a hell of a lot more consistent and a hell of a lot harder to fake.
You're missing the point. These people don't actually care about voter fraud, it's a non-issue and they know it. It's just an excuse to use discriminatory measures to specifically target demographics of people that are likely to vote against the GOP and strip them of their right to vote.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1055571556066299904
More alleged vote suppression btfo by the courts
I draw some fucking scribbles because I can't be fucked
"Draw a line around"
So... A box?
too many of those questions can be interpreted in various ways allowing to fuck over almost anybody, what the fuck
The intention was to get as few people voting as possible, it was also used with poll taxes of like 20 dollars in today's money, a big barrier for the poor to vote.
The poll tax was sometimes used alone or together with a literacy qualification. In a kind of grandfather clause, North Carolina in 1900 exempted from the poll tax those men entitled to vote as of January 1, 1867.
This excluded all blacks, who did not then have suffrage.
Is Georgia still going to follow the "name in registration application must exactly match that on record with other departments"? Because that's going to fuck over anyone with non-ASCII characters in their name, anyone whose name has multiple spellings (eg. varying Chinese romanizations), and anyone whose name isn't the standard western personal-middle-family order (eg. more than three names, reversed family/personal). And probably some more I can't think of offhand. There's a reason we database admins never use a name as a relational key - names suck.
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