Posted on 01/20/2022 1:55:47 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A sweeping 2021 law drew a legal complaint from the Justice Department. Legislators in the state are considering several new measures focused on ballot access and fraud investigations.
ATLANTA — Butch Miller, a Republican leader of the Georgia State Senate, is running for lieutenant governor and faces a tough fight this spring against a primary opponent backed by former President Donald J. Trump.
So perhaps it is no surprise that Mr. Miller, a co-sponsor of a sweeping and restrictive state voting law last year, has once again jumped into the fray, promoting a new measure to prohibit the use of drop boxes for absentee ballots, which he says would increase security — though no problems with their use by voters have been verified.
“Drop boxes are the weakest link in our election security,” Mr. Miller said in a statement. “This change removes that weakest link without doing anything to prevent access. It’s actually easier to vote early in person — and we provide far more days than most states for that.”
Georgia was a key to President Biden’s victory as well as the Democratic takeover of the Senate, and this is the second year that the state’s Republicans are focused on voting restrictions. Mr. Miller’s proposal is among a raft of new bills that underscore how much Republicans have embraced Mr. Trump’s false narrative that voter fraud cost him the 2020 election.
One measure under consideration would allow Georgians to use paper ballots if they have concerns about the recently purchased touch-screen voting machines that were the subject of fantastical fraud claims promulgated by some of Mr. Trump’s supporters.
Another proposal would allow the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to open inquiries into allegations of voter fraud. Yet another would create a constitutional amendment to prevent noncitizens from voting...
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The Democrats only got away with the Steal in 2020 because RINO-controlled state legislatures refused to enforce voter ID and allowed the cheat-by-mail-in ballots and stuffed drop boxes. All because of their petty hatred of Trump.
Never before have the RINO traitors outed themselves to the public as they did in 2020. If Kemp and Ratburger manage to win their respective primaries this year, then we are finished. I'm not a Perdue fan, but Kemp has got to go at any cost.
How is this fake news
Guess Georgia wasn’t the only state with politicians doing some back room, dirty deals to mess with the elections
Already demonstrated that they don’t have chain of custody for thousands of votes in Georgia.
Don’t forget Ruby Freeman and her daughter.
Post 21 references what you’re talking about.
Apparently a whistleblower came forward with information about all of it, cell phone tracking information, presented to the Sec of State. He denied all of this.
He’s running for re election, knows he’s going to get crushed and is trying to salvage whatever he thinks he has left in a last ditch effort to save himself.
Good. The Election Integrity Law in Georgia last year was FAR too watered down. They need to push through much much tougher laws to ensure the Stacy Abrams election fraud machine cannot get away with the blatant theft of an election again like they did in 2020.
Mail in ballots should be banned except under the most extreme of circumstances when a person can prove that they physically cannot make it to the polls.
Drop boxes need to be banned entirely.
There don’t need to be nearly as many days to vote.
Each district should be required to report how many ballots it has received at the end of each day.
No ballots received after the deadline should be counted - period. 1 minute, 1 day, 1 week. Don’t care. Invalid. Cannot be counted.
Poll watchers need to have a meaningful right to observe...as in close enough to easily read EACH ballot being counted and to object to any ballot which then must be judged by a bipartisan panel.
And of course the count can and should be live streamed on the internet. Oh, and the count can never be stopped for any reason whatsoever. Staff up if that’s going to be a problem - don’t want to hear any crying about it. Tough.
They already do that. Abrams and her ilk sur every time the voter rolls are getting scrubbed. They need the dead folks on the ballot.
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One of the most secure is a finger print ID. We have a door
lock on our house that use finger print ID to unlock the door.
No key needed and only programmed finger prints open the lock.
Finger print ID will become more and more prevalent and voting
should be one of the uses. JMO
In Georgia you have to have ID to vote.
If they didn’t give non-citizens a Georgia ID of any kind then non-citizens voting wouldn’t be an issue unless they got their ID fraudulently. Which is a completely different matter with laws already on the books for it.
Well, for one, all the editorial injections, such as:
which he says would increase security — though no problems with their use by voters have been verified.
and
that underscore how much Republicans have embraced Mr. Trump’s false narrative that voter fraud cost him the 2020 election.
and
concerns about the recently purchased touch-screen voting machines that were the subject of fantastical fraud claims promulgated by some of Mr. Trump’s supporters.
The whole damned article reads like an editorial.
Election integrity is ramping up to be a major issue in the GA 2022 election cycle.
There’s a good chance none of the GOP incumbents make it through the primary. The SOS is dead meat. The governor is doubtful (former senator David Perdue is a very good candidate). The Lt. Gov, I don’t know.
But I’m happy to hear them running scared.
Personally, I’d like to see any votes counted during an evacuation due to a burst water pipe will be invalid.
What about broken water pipes?
Water pipes break all the time in Georgia. You can hardly walk down the street without people running out of buildings screaming over a broken water pipe.
Easy to verify whether someone is a citizen or not
Yes. And then no dead people will be voting.
I don’t think Kemp has a chance. Even with all the stuff he’s trying to do, which is basically selling Georgia to anyone. And in return, lots of Georgians are going to forced to move due to the tax burden that’s about to land on them.
He’s a straight up b*tch to Hollywood, Chinese and the tech industry.
NYTimes . The biggest LEFT WING RAG.
WHO WOULD BUY THIS CRAP LEFT WING RAG EXCEPT LEFT WING IDIOTS.
For goodness sake sign up for SAVING THIS GREAT COUNTRY !!!
The Slimes characterization of voting integrity as restricting voting is what is fake news.
cheating = fairness
These F-cks are going to start a really bad conflict.
10-4…..agree
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