Number of voters purged by Brian Kemp continues to increase, now over 340K - Polidicks

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/brian-kemp-340000-voters-748165/ Republican gubernatorial candidate and current Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp incorrectly canceled some 340,000 voter registrations, according to a recent investigation. Although Kemp claimed the voters left the state of Georgia or moved to another country, they hadn’t, Greg Palast, who filed suit against Kemp, wrote in Truthout. According to John Lenser, who is CEO of CohereOne and who led a review of the list of purged voters for Palast, “340,000 of those voters remained at their original address. They should have never been removed from the voter registration rolls.” Palast only obtained the list after he filed suit against Kemp. “It began five years ago, when Kemp stonewalled my first requests for information on purges in Georgia, first for Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone, now for Truthout and Democracy Now!” Palast wrote, “It took my lawyer’s threat of a federal lawsuit, filed last week in Atlanta federal court, to blast the list of the electorally doomed from Kemp’s hands.” After he received the list, Palast said he analyzed it and discovered that 340,134 voters were purged when they shouldn’t have been. To do this, he consulted experts who cross- referenced voter data with a number of other databases including cell phone bills and tax filings to see if, in fact, any of these voters had actually moved. Many had not. A list of the purged voters’ names is available on Palast’s website. While it is too late for them to register for the upcoming midterm elections, they are still eligible to re-register for the 2020 presidential election. Kemp used a tactic Palast calls “Purge by Postcard” to remove eligible voters from the rolls. Kemp sent a postcard that could have easily been mistaken for spam to voters who did not vote in the prior election. If a voter did not return the postcard, Kemp purged their registration without informing the voters it was happening. Thanks to a June 2018 Supreme Court ruling that reversed the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, this practice is now legal. If a voter misses an election and fails to respond to a notice by mail, the court ruled it legal to remove them from the list of registered voters. In a dissent to the majority opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the practice part of “concerted state efforts to prevent minorities from voting and to undermine the efficacy of their votes” and said they were “an unfortunate feature of our country’s history.” Kemp also faces a lawsuit for exposing the records of 6 million registered Georgia voters and potentially the state’s election system to foreign hackers. Kemp has become notorious for his efforts to cull voter registrations, especially those of Democratic and minority voters. Rolling Stone recently obtained audio of Kemp speaking to donors, saying his opponent Stacey Abrams’s campaign “continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote.”

I hope this fucker gets voted out and that proper investigations are launched against him.

Holy shit How is this not sparking outright riots?

This postcard bullshit is now 100% legal per a Supreme Court ruling, despite everything Kemp's done there are now more Georgians registered to vote then ever, at least 253,902 more since April 2018. The number is higher then 2016 even though Kemp purged 668,000 that year, and early voting turnout in Georgia this year is smashing midterm levels.

This man should be arrested.

man if Abrams wins after this i imagine he's gonna be in big trouble

So a republican senate confirms republican-leaning justices, who repeal legislation which protects non-republican votes? Checks and balances my arse, your democracy is in tatters

The blue states will be fine while the red ones become Russian style democracies. Democrats would never do things like court packing to try to fix things either

It's kinda fucked up that American politicians only have to fear the consequences of their actions after they lose their position. Like, if all the cheating pays off, nobody will be able to hold the dude responsible for cheating in the first place.

He most likely won't. If he wins, it will be up to the people of Georgia to enact justice.

Georgia had something like 2 instances of voter fraud last election and its estimated that 60-80% of those purged are African American.

he's just doing his job!! i can't possibly think of a reason this might be seen as dishonest!

It'll end up being Kemp vote suppression versus the new PACs like BlackPAC that were formed after Obama left office, that helped elect Doug Jones and are working hard in Georgia to mobilize black voters.

Make sure you go and voooote, that'll solve everything!!! Get your asses up and put their feet under the fucking fire, seriously. They are quite literally stealing elections and institutions nationwide, and the vase majority of supposed "progressives" are sitting back and just taking it.

Where? Small donations are flooding Democrats with money, and that's ultimately what matters.

Pretending that throwing money into the system, be it Democrats or not, is gonna fix things is ridiculous. The United States hasn't seen any serious bipartisan progress since probably Nixon/Ford; the system is fucked whether or not the Democrats miraculously grab both houses of congress. I appreciate that people are getting involved in politics and are doing their best to support Democratic candidates regionally and even nationwide, but with "Democrats" like Joe Manchin, or the likes of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi who in most cases have essentially been appeasing the Republicans rather than fighting them, how much change can truly come from simply electing people who run as Democrats? I will admit that the likes of Beto O'Rourke and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are a breath of fresh air to see, and I wholeheartedly support them, but they are significantly outnumbered by the (at best) centrist Democrats that dominate the party.

a progressive running in west virginia has no chance at all. You need the manchins and donnalies to win the senate.

Exactly my point. It's either a broken system, or a functional system governing a broken people if one party with far more voters nation-wide has to appease to the other side to have a fair say in the government.

It's a flaw in the system since the differences in population among states was way less when the country was new. The Senate was meant to represent state interests and not even elected in every state until the 1910s, now you have 40 million Californians with the same representation as 510,000 Wyomingites. If half a million liberals moved into Wyoming and North Dakota from California Democrats would have the Senate on lock.

Unfortunately the very same broken system is allowing the party that benefits from it far more, to continue propping up the broken system. Republicans would be virtually non-existent if the US had proper modern representation, but instead the entire system is stuck in some fucked up Republican purgatory.

States will defend their importance to the death (literally in the case of the Civil War) Nixon tried to abolish the Electoral College but the south blocked him in the interest of keeping their states relevant in the presidential elections. The Senate gives certain states a lot of importance relative to size and population, like Vermont or North Dakota.

Oh I totally get it, but the whole idea of "states" is very tribal in this day and age anyway. Ideally we would stop nationalistic bullshit in general and stop placing artificial value into where you were born altogether; but to literally value your state over your entire country is just absurd to me.

It's not necessarily about pride then it is political power, the entire reason Congress is bicameral is because Virginia wanted proportional representation while Rhode Island wanted every state to have the same representation. What's a real pain is that the states are so opposed now we might never get another amendment again, for things like improved elections or rights.