Posted on 10/19/2018 8:38:30 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Georgia officials removed an estimated 107,000 people from voter rolls because they decided not to vote in prior elections, according to a new report.
An APM Reports analysis found the voters were removed under the state's "use it or lose it" law, which starts a process for removing people from voter rolls if they fail to vote, respond to a notice or make contact with election officials over a three-year period.
After that three-year span, those who don't vote or make contact with authorities in two elections can be purged from the voter rolls under the Georgia law.
Such laws, generally enacted by GOP governments, have been growing more common, with at least nine states now having them, according to APM Reports.
Voter suppression has become a big issue in the Georgia governor's race, where Republican Brian Kemp is running against Democrat Stacy Abrams. Abrams would become the first black woman to serve as a U.S. governor in history if elected.
Kemp is Georgia's secretary of state, and his office oversees elections. Abrams has argued that Georgia laws and Kemp's office have acted to suppress the votes of African-Americans in the state. Kemp says his office is following Georgia law and that he has acted to prevent voter fraud.
The two are locked in a tight race that could be decided by a relatively small number of voters.
The APM investigation concluded that many people struck from voter rolls under "use it or lose it" laws do not know that they have been dropped and are likely to be surprised if they are turned away from the polls on Nov. 6.
Officials who support the laws argue that the policy helps prevent voter fraud, saying that citizens in good standing who have not turned out to multiple elections most likely moved.
I'm all for ensuring the integrity of our voter list and I do believe we need voter ID and we should be reviewing voter lists to keep them up to date.
Is this a good method?
Some people do sit out elections because they don't like either candidate.
I believe a more comprehensive method would be to retain the names of voters who have been removed and keep them in a separate log.
If a person has been purged from the voter registry and they show up to vote they should be allowed to vote but only with valid ID.
If the person doesn't vote in say two or more elections they can be considered in-active and removed.
Democrat whine.
If you sit it out all you have to do is respond when the state contacts you to see if you are still alive or a resident of the state. Not voting and then not responding gets your registration removed. If they are dumb or lazy and that happens all you have to do is go down and re-register
If you didn’t vote in the last election, just register again.
Anyone who shows up to vote cannot be refused a provisional ballot as long as they are in the correct voting location. Board of Election will need to see if registered the next day .
But as in 2016, people get angry if they cannot use ballot box/ machine.
It’s a good idea, but three years is too short, if someone votes only in presidential elections, there is no r5eason to take them off.
One of my kid’s name remained on the local roll for over 20 years after having left the state.
No matter how much I gripped about it, the registrar would not delete the name. I assume there was a perfect voting record that the local machine did not want disturbed. /sarc
Democrats had 107,000 illegals lined up and ready to vote in these names...this is an outrage! :)
This is really going to please the Democrats.
We do the same in Florida - if you haven’t voted for a couple of years your name is purged off the list. Southern states have lots of people moving in and out... so a purge every few years makes sense.
Also, the way voter fraud was done in Florida years ago was democrats ‘voted the people who didn’t show up to vote’... It’s how the dead were able to vote - they never ‘showed up’ to vote. Cards were pulled - an ice pick was put over the chad space and a hammer strike knocked out the chads...
Exactly. I would be for having to register every 2 years, whether you voted or not.
IMO this kind of thing can be done...in fact,*should* be done...if a certain amount of time has passed since your last vote.I think that at least several November elections should pass before removal.
Most voter lists are not purged and updated. It invites fraud using the names of voters who have not voted for a long time. Identity theft with little fear that the real voter will show up.
I live in GA.
the SoS office sends multiple snail mails to the address on record.
You can even vote provisionally if you are dropped ... if you have a valid ID.
I encountered a registration error for me when we moved to a new county in GA. The precinct workers knew exactly what to do. I voted provisionally, and a few days later got a snail mail telling me my vote counted.
I also corrected my registration error in the new county
There is *NO* voter suppression in GA. PERIOD.
“One of my kid’s name remained on the local roll for over 20 years after having left the state.”
My mother has end stage dementia and hasn’t voted since 2008 but the state dutifully sends her a ballot for every election. I have full power of attorney and have tried to remove her from the voter rolls but they say that she is the only one who can do that!
I do check her name after each election to make sure that no one cast a ballot in her name.
“And On The Blackfoot Reservation, all 1000 registered voters cast 5000 votes for the Democrat candidate.”
I call BS on this claim. I have been voting for over 50 years and have never seen an election where only one office was on the ballot.
There are always multiple offices, ballot questions, bond authorizations, etc. on every ballot I have seen.
If you don't like either candidate for an office, OK, don't vote for that office. But there are lots of other races on every ballot.
That would be a bit much, but returning a notice wouldn’t be too much to ask. Otherwise voter registration would be as bad as the MVD
This should be standard practice. If someone has literally no opinion whatsoever on any candidate or issue, then they’re not a voter. Someone can just write themselves in once in a while if they’re strictly agnostic about politics or any issues in their town, city, state or country. Or just simply write a quick note to the registrar saying “I don’t care about anything, but I might some day, so keep me on the rolls!”
“If a person has been purged from the voter registry and they show up to vote they should be allowed to vote but only with valid ID.”
Nonsense! We have made voting, our most precious right far too easy! It used to be the law here in CA that if you didn’t vote in two general elections, you were removed from the voter rolls. Now the make you “inactive” without any inquiry as to why you are no longer voting ( like you’ve moved, or are dead ). Our daughter and her husband lived with us 14 years ago when they returned from several years at ex-pat jobs in Japan. When we repeatedly told the poll workers that they lived and were registered in another CA county, we were told it was up to them to “notify” our county registrar of voters of the change.
I submit that any unvoted registration left around is simply a fraudulent vote waiting to be taken by the RATs.
If you are too f*cking lazy to vote, your registration should be purged and you should be required to re-register when you decide to again exercise your voting right. And that re-registration should take place at least 60 days before the next election in which you intend to vote. The idea of being able to just show up on election day and vote is a big, big mistake.
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