Posted on 06/02/2009 3:00:44 PM PDT by RDTF
ATLANTA — The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's system of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal lawsuit in the weeks leading up to November's election.
In a letter released on Monday, the Justice Department said the state's voter verification program is frequently inaccurate and has a "discriminatory effect" on minority voters. The decision means Georgia must halt the citizenship checks, although the state can still ask the Justice Department to reconsider, according to the letter and to the Georgia secretary of state's office.
"This flawed system frequently subjects a disproportionate number of African-American, Asian and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and more importantly, erroneous burdens on the right to register to vote," Loretta King, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said. King's letter was sent to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Friday.
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What this boils down to is that anyone can vote....no matter where they are from.
You have a social security card and a driver’s license but still not be a citizen, so the process is flawed from the outset.
Is there no recourse through the judicial system? This doesn’t seem to me to be Constitutional.
I live in Georgia and plan to hound the s___ out of my state reps to shove this back up Obama’s fascist ass.
“This flawed system frequently subjects a disproportionate number of African-American, Asian and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and more importantly, erroneous burdens on the right to register to vote,” Loretta King, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, said. King’s letter was sent to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Friday.”
I have this uneasy feeling that this, someday, will the reason I, a white, heterosexual male, will not be able to do anything but pay bills for everyone else until I move to the woods and live in a teepee...
Me Too Yankee! enough is enough...
Disproportionate, because select democrat voting blocks are incapable of obtaining or possessing proper ID.
It's hard to fathom how these idiot voters fail to see how utterly demeaning and insulting their slave masters really are. Prideless tools.
The Obama DOJ wipes their rears with the law.
What has the GA governor done to reverse this attack by unelected central planning lawyers?
So the answer is to just open it up to anyone? At least that’s a start.
This is the same Nazi bitch that is going after Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
This administration is populated by people that hate this country. That includes the top s___bird himself.
If a voter cannot pull together proof of citizenship then that voter should not vote.
Holder’s DOJ is all over this because he understands that the next step is proving citizenship for persons standing for election. Bambi does not want this!
voting early and often is a Democratic right. Just ask Al Franken
The dems will do anything to get more votes.
Next thing you know we’ll be told we don’t have the right to expect a candidate for President to provide proof that he is eligible to hold the office.
LBJ has had his “greatest trimph” turned into a catastophy.
The Soros machine is one step ahead of you...
I do not understand..how in the HELL does providing proper ID impose an unfair burden on negros or asians or latinos?
Texas was just going to pass a similar law—with the same arguments by the Dems.
Seems to me that getting an ID isn’t that difficult.
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